Maluku Islands

E30859
archipelago region

The Maluku Islands are an Indonesian archipelago historically known as the Spice Islands, famed for their production of nutmeg, cloves, and other valuable spices that drew intense European colonial interest.

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Observed surface forms (7)

Surface form Occurrences
Moluccas 9
Central Maluku Islands 1
Maluku 1

Statements (57)

Predicate Object
instanceOf archipelago ⓘ
region ⓘ
capital Ambon ⓘ
climate tropical ⓘ
colonialCenter Ambon ⓘ
Ternate ⓘ
contains Ambon Island ⓘ
Aru Islands ⓘ
Banda Islands ⓘ
Buru ⓘ
Kai Islands ⓘ
Seram ⓘ
Sula Islands ⓘ
Ternate ⓘ
Tidore ⓘ
country Indonesia ⓘ
dividedInto Maluku Islands self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Maluku Province

North Maluku Province ⓘ
ethnicGroups Ambon Malay ⓘ
surface form: Ambonese

Maluku peoples ⓘ
Maluku peoples ⓘ
surface form: Ternate people
hasEconomicActivity fishing ⓘ
forestry ⓘ
small-scale agriculture ⓘ
spice cultivation ⓘ
historicallyContestedBy England ⓘ
Netherlands ⓘ
Portugal ⓘ
Spain ⓘ
historicallyControlledBy Dutch East India Company ⓘ
Dutch colonial empire ⓘ
surface form: Dutch Empire

Portuguese Empire ⓘ
historicalName Banda Islands ⓘ
surface form: Spice Islands
knownFor biodiversity ⓘ
clove production ⓘ
mace production ⓘ
nutmeg production ⓘ
seismic activity ⓘ
spice trade ⓘ
languagesSpoken Austronesian languages ⓘ
Trans–New Guinea languages ⓘ
surface form: Papuan languages
largestIsland Halmahera ⓘ
locatedIn Banda Sea ⓘ
Molucca Sea ⓘ
surface form: Ceram Sea

Molucca Sea ⓘ
surface form: Halmahera Sea

Malay Archipelago ⓘ
Pacific Ocean ⓘ
Southeast Asia ⓘ
eastern Indonesia ⓘ
locatedOn Pacific Ring of Fire ⓘ
majorPort Ambon ⓘ
Ternate ⓘ
officialLanguage Indonesian ⓘ
partOf Indonesian archipelago ⓘ
Wallacea ⓘ
religions Christianity ⓘ
Islam ⓘ

Referenced by (24)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

this entity surface form: Moluccas
Treaty of Zaragoza → concernedTerritory → Maluku Islands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Moluccas
Indonesia → containsIsland → Maluku Islands ⓘ
Concepción → destination → Maluku Islands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Spice Islands
Concepción → destination → Maluku Islands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Moluccas
Voyage to the Moluccas → destination → Maluku Islands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Moluccas
Victoria → destinationRegion → Maluku Islands ⓘ
subject surface form: Victoria (ship)
this entity surface form: Moluccas
Victoria (ship) → destinationRegion → Maluku Islands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Moluccas
Maluku Islands → dividedInto → Maluku Islands self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Maluku Province
Eulipoa wallacei → endemicTo → Maluku Islands ⓘ
Malay world → hasPart → Maluku Islands ⓘ
Melanesia → hasPart → Maluku Islands ⓘ
Indonesian archipelago → hasSubregion → Maluku Islands ⓘ
Australasian realm → includes → Maluku Islands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Moluccas
Malay Archipelago → includesIslandGroup → Maluku Islands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Moluccas
Majapahit Empire → influencedRegion → Maluku Islands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Maluku region
Eulipoa wallacei → nativeTo → Maluku Islands ⓘ
Megapodius freycinet → nativeTo → Maluku Islands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tanimbar Islands
this entity surface form: Central Maluku Islands
Timor–Babar languages → spokenIn → Maluku Islands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Maluku
Trinidad → visited → Maluku Islands ⓘ
this entity surface form: Moluccas