SS Makambo
The Makambo anchor
- Kainan Maru
The Makambo was a steam ship, the first was in the possession of the company Burns Philp & Company Limited in Sydney, New South Wales. It was built in Port Glasgow and named after an island in the Solomon Islands. It carried both passengers and freight, and was used primarily on routes between eastern Australia and the islands in Melanesia and in the Tasman Sea. Between 1910 and 1931 she went the regular route between Sydney and Port Vila in the New Hebrides, with stops on the Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. In 1939, she was by Okada Gumi K. K. acquired from Osaka, Japan and renamed Kainan Maru. On 12 June 1944 she was torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine Stoic before the Thai island of Phuket.
Beaching before the Lord Howe Island
On 15 June 1918 the Makambo ran close to Ned's Beach on the north end of Lord Howe Island on a sandbank. A female passenger drowned, capsized as a lifeboat during the evacuation of passengers and crew. The Makambo was trapped only temporarily. After nine days, the repairs were completed and the ship was able to continue his journey.
This incident, however, allowed the ship rats as invasive species on Lord Howe Island secluded location between Australia and New Zealand to arrive. In the subsequent environmental disaster some bird and other animal species were wiped out within a few years due to the predation by rats and brought the Kentia Palm Farmer by the loss of seedlings in Existenznot. To the plague of rats to master, in 1922 and 1930 Neuhollandeulen were introduced to Lord Howe Island between the years. By adding another birds of prey in the fragile ecosystem, the problem was only exacerbated. Between 1919 and 1928, the Lord Howe Island throttle, the Lord Howe Gerygone, Lord Howe -Star, the Lord Howe Grey Fantail and the Lord Howe White-eye were extinct. The Lord Howe morepork was supplanted by the Neuhollandeule. The breeding colonies of many seabirds on Lord Howe Island, including the Pycroftsturmvogels ( Pterodroma pycrofti ) were wiped out. The tree lobsters, a huge Gespenstschreckenart that had been held on the Lord Howe Island since 1930 to be extinct, was rediscovered in 2001 on the offshore island of Ball's Pyramid. Also for the decline and extinction of endemic lizards, land snails and beetles, rats were responsible.
Makambo rock, north of Malabar Hill on Lord Howe Island received its name in memory of the ecological disaster caused by these stranding.