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Ambon Island is part of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. The island has an area of 743.37 km 2 (287.02 sq mi) and is mountainous, well watered, and fertile. Ambon Island consists of two territories: the city of Ambon to the south and various districts (kecamatan) of the Central Maluku Regency to the north. The main city and seaport is Ambon ...
The Portuguese were driven out by the Dutch in 1605. Except for brief periods of British rule, the island remained under Dutch control until Indonesia's independence in 1945. Coat of arms of Ambon during colonial era, granted in 1930. During the Dutch period, Ambon was the seat of the Dutch resident and military commander of the Maluku Islands.
Ambon is located in the Maluku (Moluccas) islands, just south of the much larger Seram Island.Ambon has what might be described as a "figure eight" or "hourglass" shape, and consists of two peninsulas separated by a narrow isthmus, with long narrow bays on either side of the isthmus.
The Maluku Islands (/ məˈluːkuː, mæˈluːkuː / mə-LOO-koo, mal-OO-; Indonesian: Kepulauan Maluku) or the Moluccas (/ məˈlʌkəz / 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.
26th in Indonesia (2023) Website. malukuprov.go.id. Maluku is a province of Indonesia. It comprises the central and southern regions of the Maluku Islands. The largest city and capital of Maluku province is Ambon on the small Ambon Island. It is directly adjacent to North Maluku, Southwest Papua, and West Papua in the north, Central Sulawesi ...
The 1674 Ambon earthquake occurred on February 17 between 19:30 and 20:00 local time in the Maluku Islands. The resulting tsunami reached heights of up to 100 metres (330 ft) on Ambon Island killing over 2,000 individuals. It was the first detailed documentation of a tsunami in Indonesia and the largest ever recorded in the country. [1]
The Maluku sectarian conflict was a period of ethno-political conflict along religious lines that occurred in the Maluku Islands in Indonesia, with particularly serious disturbances on the islands of Ambon and Halmahera. The duration of the conflict is generally dated from the start of the Reformasi era in early 1999 to the signing of the ...
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. Dutch conquest exerted colonial control across the archipelago in the 19th century ...