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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All labels observed (16)

Label	Occurrences
Maluku Islands canonical	50
Moluccas	22
Maluku	8
Maluku archipelago	5
Maluku region	5
Moluccas archipelago	3
Maluku Islands region	2
Central Maluku	1
Central Maluku Islands	1
Halmahera–New Guinea area	1
Maluku Archipelago	1
Maluku Province	1
Moluccan Islands	1
Moluccas Islands	1
Spice Islands	1
Tanimbar Islands	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 (104)

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

Indonesia → containsIsland → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Magellan–Elcano expedition → visitedRegion → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Majapahit Empire → influencedRegion → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Melanesia → hasPart → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Concepción → destination → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spice Islands

Concepción → destination → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Moluccas

Victoria → destinationRegion → Maluku Islands ⓘ

subject surface form: Victoria (ship)

this entity surface form: Moluccas

Australasian realm → includes → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Moluccas

Central Malayo-Polynesian languages → locatedIn → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Maluku region

Central Malayo-Polynesian languages → spokenIn → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tanimbar Islands

Central Malayo-Polynesian languages → spokenIn → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Central Maluku Islands

Malay world → hasPart → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Trinidad → visited → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Moluccas

Maluku Islands → dividedInto → Maluku Islands self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Maluku Province

Treaty of Zaragoza → concernedTerritory → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Moluccas

Indonesian archipelago → hasSubregion → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Megapodius freycinet → nativeTo → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Eulipoa wallacei → nativeTo → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Eulipoa wallacei → endemicTo → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Timor–Babar languages → spokenIn → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Maluku

Malay Archipelago → includesIslandGroup → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Moluccas

Spanish East Indies → appliesToTerritorialJurisdiction → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Moluccas

Victoria (ship) → destinationRegion → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Moluccas

Voyage to the Moluccas → destination → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Moluccas

Government of Indonesia → controlsTerritory → Maluku Islands ⓘ

eastern Indonesia → hasPart → Maluku Islands ⓘ

subject surface form: Eastern Indonesia

Indonesia Standard Time system → coversRegion → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Soekarno-Hatta Port → regionServed → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Maluku

Banda Islands massacre → hasLocation → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Antonio Pigafetta → wroteAbout → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Moluccas

Southeast Sulawesi → borderedBy → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Maluku

Molucca Sea → locatedBetween → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Central Maluku languages → spokenIn → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Central Maluku

Banda Neira → locatedIn → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta → traveledTo → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Moluccas

Ambon Malay → spokenIn → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Central MP languages → spokenIn → Maluku Islands ⓘ

subject surface form: Central Malayo-Polynesian languages

Central MP languages → geographicExtent → Maluku Islands ⓘ

subject surface form: Central Malayo-Polynesian languages

this entity surface form: Maluku region

CMP languages → spokenInRegion → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Moluccas

Papunesia → includes → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Moluccas

Kayeli language → spokenIn → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Ambon → locatedIn → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Ambon → islandGroup → Maluku Islands ⓘ

Ambon → region → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Maluku

Ambon → locatedInArchipelago → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Maluku Archipelago

Buru → locatedIn → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Maluku archipelago

Ternate → locatedIn → Maluku Islands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Moluccas