> What the sailors didn’t know was that the island had been uninhabited for 40 years. It seems that it was occupied for several days by the 24 survivors of the

> What the sailors didn’t know was that the island had been uninhabited for 40 years. It seems that it was occupied for several days by the 24 survivors of the shipwrecked SS Norwich City in November 1929, who were forced to abandon the wreck as it caught fire. I believe it is the ship in the photograph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikumaroro#SS_Norwich_City_wreck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikumaroro#SS_Norwich_City_wre...