Jakarta is located on the island of Java. The city is based on the level of the sea, which favors the formation of the habitual floods. The southern part of the city is more mountainous. Jakarta borders geographically with Java province Barat to the east and with Banten to the west. Indo...
Although the Portuguese were the first Europeans to "discover" tea in East Asia, it was the Dutch who introduced the beverage commercially to Europe in 1610. Tea didn't reach England until the 1650's. Indonesia was a Dutch colony until 1945. Jakarta was then called "Batavia", after the L...
This voyage also brought him into contact with the Māori tribe, giving him the distinction of being the first recorded European to have met the native tribe. After his initial explorations of New Zealand, Cook travelled back to England through the Indian Ocean via Jakarta. Capt. Cook’s secon...