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Panoramic view of Maritime Museum (left) and Sunda Kelapa port (right) seen from the Harbormaster Tower. The view is toward the south. The remaining city wall in front of the Maritime Museum onwards to the bastion Zeeburg and a bit further west is all that is left of the wall that once surrounded Batavia during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Sunda Kelapa (Sundanese: ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ ᮊᮜᮕ, Sunda Kalapa) is the old port of Jakarta, located on the estuary of the Ciliwung River. "Sunda Kalapa" ( Sundanese : "Coconut of Sunda") is the original name, and it was the main port of the Sunda Kingdom .
The port of Sunda Kelapa. Penjaringan District is the area to the left of the port. The right side of the port is the Administrative Village of Ancol in Pademangan District. The historic Pasar Ikan ("fish market") is the building on the foreground, built on a restored warehouse of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
A map showing the transformation of the mouth of the Ciliwung into canals flowing through the inner city and moat flowing around the city and the fort of Batavia. Sunda Kelapa was used as the main port by the Dutch (1619) who constructed a fort at the east bank of the estuary and founded Batavia, the largest city and the capital of the East ...
The area of Batavia within the city walls and moat as well as the Sunda Kelapa harbor to the left (north) of the map make up Jakarta Old Town. Main article: Batavia, Dutch East Indies Kota Tua is a remainder of Old Batavia, the first walled settlement of the Dutch in Jakarta area.
The Stadsherberg ("City Inn") is a lodging located in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta). The lodging is located in the Sunda Kelapa harbor, the first lodging to be seen by visitors of Batavia. The lodging was so strategically located in the port of Sunda Kelapa between the colonial custom houses that the inn prospered during the course ...
During the era of the VOC, Batavia was centered on the so-called Benedenstad or "Lower City". It consisted of the walled Kota, the older harbor at Sunda Kelapa, and the Chinese quarter at Glodok. In the middle of 18th century, Batavia also included the outskirts area along the canal of the Molenvliet (now Jalan Gajah Mada and Jalan Hayam Wuruk ...
The island Onrust near Batavia (Nederlands-Indië) (Abraham Storck, 1699. Shortly before the colonial period Jakarta Bay was disputed between the Sunda Kingdom and the rising Banten Sultanate. In 1527 the Demak Sultanate conquered the Sunda port Sunda Kelapa and renamed it Jayakarta.