Lambom Island Explained

Lambom Island or Lambon or Lumbom, also known as Wallis Island, and Île aux Marteaux, is an island off the south-western corner of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, off Lambom.^{[1] [2]} On the other side of the Cape St. George peninsula is Lanisso Bay.

The island was visited by Philip Carteret in June 1767, on his round-the-world voyage in Swallow. He named it Wallis Island, after Samuel Wallis. Wallis had set out with him in Dolphin, but the two ships were separated in a storm after passing through the Strait of Magellan.^[3]

In July the following year the expedition of Louis Antoine de Bougainville arrived. He named the island Île aux Marteaux, "Hammer Island" after a species of Malleus, the hammer shell or hammer oyster found there, which was not often found in European collections.^[4]

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-4.8°N 203°W

Notes and References

1. Book: Firth, Stewart. New Guinea under the Germans. 31 December 2012. 1 July 1983. Melbourne University Press. 978-0-522-84220-3.
2. Web site: Lambom . Wikimapia . 7 April 2024.
3. Book: Wilson . Robert . Voyages of Discoveries Round the World: Successively Undertaken by the Hon. Commodore Byron in 1764, Captains Wallis and Carteret in 1766, and Captain Cook in the Years 1768 to 1789 Inclusive : Comprehending Authentic and Interesting Accounts of Countries Never Before Explored, with the Longitude, Latitude, Relative Situations, Soil, Climate, Natural Productions, Customs and Manners of the Inhabitants, &c. &c . 1806 . James Cundee . London . 245-373 .
4. Book: Lesson . R.P. . Voyage autour du monde, entrepris par ordre du gouvernement sur la corvette La Coquille, Tome III . 1839 . Gregoir, Wouters . Bruxelles . 23 . French.