Indonesia High Sea

These waters lie just north of Aua, an island in the western Bismarck Archipelago. In 1545 the Spanish navigator Iñigo Órtiz de Retes charted Aua with nearby Wuvulu and Manu while returning from Tidore towards New Spain. More than two centuries later, Philip Carteret sighted Aua from HMS Swallow and named it for one of his officers.