The existence of a tomb gave the bay its name.It is said that the tomb was constructed
by the dutch in the memory of Pieter Both whose ship was wrecked in the bay in 1615.
Other people attribute the tomb to several personalitiesnamely Jacques Lemaire, a Dutch navigator,
the wife of a Dutch admiral, and also to George Weldon, English Governor of Bombay who was
drowned in the bay.Another version is that the name commemorates the memory of Paul and Virginie.
However, as manuscripts in the Indian Office Library have shown, the tomb was that of Geroge Weldon.
That massive tomb became a landmark for sailors(1697).

Its Dutch name was 'Pieter Both Baay'.The English called it 'Carpenter's Bay'.
During the early French occupation the village was called 'Baie de la Maison Blanche' and also 'Baie D'Orleans'.
By the middle of the Eighteenth century it was known as Baie Du Tombeau.It appears
under that name in the Abbe De La Caille 1753 map.

There is an old church in Baie Du Tombeau known as Saint Malo.Nowadays Baie Du
Tombeau has acquired importance on various fields: Industrial, residential and
Touristic.