Japanese Cemetery

Dating back to the booming pearl days, the Japanese Cemetery pays tribute to the hundreds of young Japanese divers that died from either the bends or drowning. A large stone obelisk in the cemetery recalls those burried so far from home when a cyclone drowned many at sea in 1908. The cyclones of 1887 and 1935 each caused the deaths of at least 140 men.

The immaculately restored cemetery has 707 graves (919 people), most of them having unusual headstones of coloured beach rocks.