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The Maluku Islands (/ m ə ˈ l uː k uː, m æ ˈ l uː k uː / mə-LOO-koo, mal-OO-; Indonesian: Kepulauan Maluku) or the Moluccas (/ m ə ˈ l ʌ k ə z / mə-LUK-əz) are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone.
The Molucca Sea (Indonesian: Laut Maluku) is located in the western Pacific Ocean, around the vicinity of Indonesia, specifically bordered by the Indonesian Islands of Celebes (Sulawesi) to the west, Halmahera to the east, and the Sula Islands to the south. The Molucca Sea has a total surface area of 77,000 square miles (200,000 square kilometres).
Map of the Maluku Islands. The Moluccas were known as the Spice Islands because of the nutmeg, mace and cloves that were exclusively found there. The presence of these sparked European colonial interest in the sixteenth century, starting with Portugal who virtually held a monopoly on the spice trade.
The Dieppe maps are a series of world maps and atlases produced in Dieppe, France, in the 1540s, 1550s, and 1560s. ... had just arrived at the Moluccas, and of the ...
The Maluku Islands (formerly the Moluccas) are a group of islands within Indonesia. The region is administered under two provinces: Maluku and North Maluku . Major islands in the province of North Maluku
South Maluku, also South Moluccas, officially the Republic of South Maluku, is a former unrecognised secessionist republic that originally claimed the islands of Ambon, Buru, and Seram, which currently make up most of the Indonesian province of Maluku.
Early map of northern Maluku made during the Age of Discovery. North is on the right, with Ternate as the rightmost followed by Tidore, Mare, Moti and Makian islands. The bottom is the Gilolo (Jailolo or Halmahera) Island. The inset on the top is Bacan Island. Willem Blaeu, 1630 Colonial-era painting of Ternate island, c. 1883–1889.
The position of the Bacans in the Moluccas. The Bacan Islands, formerly also known as the Bachans, Bachians, and Batchians, [1] are a group of islands in the Moluccas in Indonesia. They are mountainous and forested, lying south of Ternate and southwest of Halmahera. The islands are administered by the South Halmahera Regency of North Maluku ...