Once home to a pros­per­ous fish­ing vil­lage, hous­ing a school, hos­pi­tal, airstrip, and chapel, the island is now noth­ing but skele­tal ruins jut­ting out of the sand. It was estab­lished in the 1860s by fish­er­men from Por­tu­gal. The set­tle­ment last­ed for almost a cen­tu­ry, with its final inhab­i­tants relo­cat­ing in the 1970s.