David McHattie Forbes was the discoverer of the greatest collection of Polynesian artefacts ever found and the location became known as Forbes Cave.
In 1905, he was the discoverer, with two colleagues, of the greatest collection of Polynesian artefacts ever found. The location of the find became known as Forbes Cave and his family preserved his third of the found objects for half a century until they donated them to the Volcanoes National Park in 1956. 
