Ambon, island and municipality of Maluku propinsi (or provinsi; province), Indonesia. It is one of the islands of the Moluccas (Maluku) group. Ambon island is located 7 miles (11 km) off the southwestern coast of the island of Ceram (Seram). Its relief i
Spice Islands- a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands Moluccas ...
while nutmeg, he noticed, grevJ on something resembling the pear tree. Despite their common appearance, in the 16th century these spices were specialand not just because, by a fluke of evolution they grew on]y on a handful of islands in the Malay Arc...
Indonesia - Spice Islands, Sulawesi, Maluku: Celebes shows some evidence of being squeezed between the conflicting forces of the more stable surrounding masses of the Sunda and Sahul shelves. Its complex shape somewhat resembles a capital K, with an extr
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A brilliant, original history of the spice trade—and the appetites that fueled it.It was in search of the fabled Spice Islands and their cloves that Magellan charted the first circumnavigation of the globe. Vasco da Gama sailed the dangerous waters around Africa to India on a quest for...
Written with the verve of a detective novel, Crowley charts a 16th-century version of the ‘moon shot’ to the fabled ‘Spice Islands’ of the Moluccas. Then the sole known source of cloves, nutmeg, mace and sandalwood, trading profits on these rare but easily portable commodities could ...
1. Half the world’s spices originated from Indonesia An illustration of Indonesian spices by Nugraha Pratama Indonesia is home to the Moluccas archipelago, also known as the “Spice Islands” where over 30,000 species of spices are growing. These include more than half of the world’s spices...
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Ternate Island, one of the northernmost of a line of Indonesian islands stretching southward along the western coast of the island of Halmahera to the Bacan Islands east of the Molucca Sea. Ternate Island lies within the propinsi (or provinsi; province)