 Mount Lunaman is known to the locals as "Lo' Wamung", or "Locwamu" which means "first hill", "Hospital Hill" and "Fortress Hill" by the German settlers.Mount Lunaman and the Lae urban area have been the subject of several tectonic studies relating to plate shift.Voco Point suffers from undersea landslides, because of the very steep shelf, and portions are lost about every 50 years.