As WWII was drawing to a close, around 400 or 500 British and Commonwealth POWs captured in the South Pacific were sent here to work in the copper mines, with many of them dying and being buried here.
二戰末期，更有四、五百名在南洋被俘的英籍戰俘遣送來此挖銅礦，許多人不幸埋骨於此。