"The Hermit Islands are a group of 17 islands within the Western Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Their coordinates are 1\u00B030\u2032S 145\u00B04\u2032E.The first sighting by Europeans of Hermit islands was by the Spanish navigator I\u00F1igo \u00D3rtiz de Retes on 29 July 1545 when on board of the carrack San Juan tried to return from Tidore to New Spain. He charted them as La Caimana (a female caiman in Spanish)."@en . . . .