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Tanah Jampea, also variously known as Tanah Djampea, Tanahjampea, Jampea Island and Pulau Jampea, is the second largest island of the Selayar Islands group in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi Province. The group lies in the Flores Sea between the much larger islands of Sulawesi to the north and Flores to the south. The island is some 22 km long by ...
It is endemic to Indonesia's Tanah Jampea, the second largest of the Selayar Islands group in the Flores Sea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Cyrtodactylus tanahjampea, also known as the Tanahjampea bent-toed gecko, is a species of gecko endemic to Tanah Jampea Island in Indonesia. [1] References
The Jampea Island pipe snake (Cylindrophis isolepis) is a species of snake in the Cylindrophiidae family endemic to Tanah Jampea, Indonesia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The specific epithet , isolepis , meaning "equal scale", refers to the fact that in this species, the ventral scales are the same as the dorsal scales.
Van Neck made one more expedition to the Indies after his voyage of 1598, losing three fingers while doing battle with a Spanish-Portuguese fleet near Ternate. [8] He retired from exploring after that, and later became a mayor of Amsterdam, and alderman, and a member of two admiralty colleges. [8]
Romo Mangun was the son of Yulianus Sumadi and Serafin Kamdaniyah. [3] At the age of sixteen, he joined the People's Security Army during the Indonesian National Revolution and was shocked by the way the troops treated the villagers. [2]
There are numerous diving sites in the islands close to Labuan Bajo - but in some places currents can be dangerously strong and much carefulness is required - notably at Batu Bolong site (whose name means "hole in the rock", in the Linta Strait), also called "Current City" for that reason [10] [11] To the north are Sabolon kecil, Sabolon besar and Seraya kecil; to the west are Sebayur (outside ...
This Earth of Mankind is the first book in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's epic quartet called Buru Quartet, first published by Hasta Mitra in 1980.The story is set at the end of the Dutch colonial rule and was written while Pramoedya was imprisoned on the political island prison of Buru in eastern Indonesia.