It is located 160 km (99 mi) NW from Port Moresby, on the south coast of Papua New Guinea.

[2] The mission was successfully led from 1900 to 1908 by Bishop Henry Verius and from then until 1945 by Alain de Boismenu.

[3] With the European missionaries came catechists from the Philippines, some of which married into the local population.

Today, many inhabitants of Yule Island have distinct European and Filipino features.

[4] The visit of Australian poet James McAuley to the mission at Yule Island in 1949 made a profound spiritual impression on him and contributed to his conversion to Catholicism.