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250 m (820 ft) Highest point. Papenberg. View of Bandanaira (lithograph based on a painting by Josias Cornelis Rappard, 1883-1889) Banda Neira (also known as Pulau Neira) is an island in the Banda Islands, Indonesia. [1] It is administered as part of the administrative Banda Islands District (Kecamatan Kepulauan Banda) within the Central Maluku ...
Location of the Banda Islands in the center of the Maluku Islands Map of the Banda Islands. The Banda Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Banda) are a volcanic group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about 140 km (87 mi) south of Seram Island and about 2,000 km (1,243 mi) east of Java, and constitute an administrative district (kecamatan) within the Central Maluku Regency in the ...
Banda Besar is located on the south side of a submerged caldera with a diameter of around seven kilometers, [citation needed] inside which the islands of Banda Neira and Banda Api are located. A ridge runs along the length of the island with a maximum height of 510 metres (1,670 ft). The largest settlements are Lonthoir, Selamon and Waer. There ...
The island is at the center of the Banda Islands group, with the neighboring island of Banda Neira is around 100 metres east, and Lontor is around 1 km to the south. The island is dominated by its active volcano, Gunung Api or Vuurberg , with a height of 640 metres (2,100 ft).
The second force intended to capture the Banda Islands, the heart of the Spice trade – notably the strongly defended island of Banda Neira. The force comprised the 36-gun frigate Caroline , the former French frigate HMS Piedmontaise , the 18-gun sloop HMS Barracouta , and a 12-gun transport, the captured Dutch vessel Mandarin , which was ...
c. 14,000 dead, enslaved or fled elsewhere [3][2] The Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands was a process of military conquest from 1609 to 1621 by the Dutch East India Company of the Banda Islands. The Dutch, having enforced a monopoly on the highly lucrative nutmeg production from the islands, were impatient with Bandanese resistance to Dutch ...
Run Island is part of the Banda Islands group which had a total population of 20,924 at the 2020 census. [7] The main town of the group is Banda Naira on Banda Naira Island. . Administratively, Run Island is included in the Banda District (kecamatan) which is one of 18 districts within the Central Maluku Regency (population 423,094 at the 2020 censu
HMS. Mandarin. (1810) HMS Mandarin was a Dutch gun-brig of 178 tons burthen ( bm) and 12 guns that the British had captured at Amboyna in February 1810. [1] She served as part of a four-vessel flotilla that captured Banda Neira. She was wrecked in November 1810.