The 1793 Malaspina expedition accounts of Vanuatu and Tonga

Record summary

The Spanish Malaspina expedition produced journals, drawings, and scientific observations from Pacific islands during the 1790s. Its records are a potential lead for late eighteenth-century descriptions of sacred places, ritual specialists, death customs, and beings translated into European supernatural vocabulary. The material is more useful as a comparative archive than as a single famous haunting, and access may depend on Spanish archival or edited expedition publications. Researchers should identify the individual officer or artist responsible for each observation rather than cite “Malaspina” generically.