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	Banda Islands - LoveToKnow 1911
		BANDA ISLANDS, a group of the Dutch East Indies, consisting of three chief and several lesser islands in the Banda Sea, south of Ceram, belonging to the residency of Amboyna.
		Gunong Api (Fire Mountain), 2200 ft. high, is an active volcano, and its eruptions and earthquakes have frequently brought destruction, as notably in 1852, when the damage was chiefly due to a huge wave of the sea.
		Banda, the chief town, on Neira, is a pleasant settlement, commanded by two Dutch forts of the early 17th century, Nassau and Belgica.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Banda_Islands (604 words)

	Banda Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Banda Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Banda) are a group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about 140km south of Seram island and about 2000km east of Java, and are part of the Indonesian province of Maluku.
		The descendants of some of the Bandanese who fled Dutch conquest in the seventeenth century live in the Kai Islands (Kepulauan Kei) to the east of the Banda group, where a version of the original Banda language is still spoken in the villages of Banda Eli and Banda Elat on Kai Besar Island.
		Banda is the Blessed Land: sacred practice and identity in the Banda Islands, Maluku.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banda_Islands (1020 words)

	John Seabrook \| Stories \| Soldiers and Spice: Indonesia
		The Bandas were just one small part of the region that used to be called the Spice Islands (and are now called the Moluccas), but they were the only islands in the world on which round nutmeg grew.
		In the Bandas, Des lives like an English country baronet, except that the fish are his hounds and the coral is his hunt, and when he returns from his forays into his watery estate one of his men kneels at his feet and strips off the master's aqua socks rather than his riding boots.
		Banda has remained mostly peaceful during that time, although there was a bad period in the spring of 1999, when a clash between Christians and Muslims escalated into violence.
	www.booknoise.net /johnseabrook/stories/culture/indonesia/index.html (7840 words)

	Banda
		The Banda group, about 160 kilometers southeast of Ambon, consists of three larger islands and seven smaller ones, perched on the rim of Indonesia's deepest sea, the Banda Sea.
		The seas around Banda are the site of the famous Maluku sea gardens with their bright corals and colorful fish darting through the crystal-clear waters.
		Banda saw some of the bloodiest episodes of Maluku's past history during the 17th century.
	www.euronet.nl /users/icu00022/html/banda.htm (311 words)

	Global Volcanism Program \| Banda Api \| Summary
		The small island volcano of Banda Api is the NE-most volcano in the Sunda-Banda arc and has a long period of historical observation because of its key location in the thriving Portuguese and Dutch spice trade.
		The basaltic-to-rhyodacitic Banda Api is located in the SW corner of a 7-km-wide mostly submerged caldera that comprises the northernmost of a chain of volcanic islands in the Banda Sea.
		Gunung Api forms a conical peak rising to 640 m at the center of the 3-km-wide Banda Api island.
	www.volcano.si.edu /world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0605-09= (186 words)

	indonesiaphoto.com - The Banda Islands
		Neira is the economic center of the islands, while Banda Besar is the largest, 12 km long and 3 km wide.
		Banda Besar was attacked by the Dutch in 1621 and several "unfriendly" Bandanese were massacred, while some fled to the Kai islands.
		Almost all of the Banda islands are surrounded by beautiful corral reefs with a large variety of fish.
	www.indonesiaphoto.com /content/view/129/42 (530 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Banda Sea Islands moist deciduous forests (AA0102)
		The Banda Sea Islands Moist Deciduous Forests [AA0102] are found on small islands scattered across the Banda Sea and are part of the region known as Wallacea, which contains a distinctive fauna representing a mix of Asian and Australasian species.
		The Banda Islands are part of the inner arc, whereas the rest of the ecoregion is part of the outer arc.
		We created the Banda Sea Islands Moist Deciduous Forests [AA0102] by combining the islands in the Kai and Tanimbar archipelagos, which were distinguished as a biogeographic unit by Monk et al.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0102_full.html (1093 words)

	Banda Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Banda archipelago consists of 13 islands, those are : Naira (usually known as Banda Naira), Banda Besar (Lonthoir), Run, Ay, Rozengain (or Hatta), Pisang (or Syahrir), Gunung Api island, Batu Kapal, Manuk, Karaka, Nailaka, Manukang, and Hatta Reef.
		Naira is the subdistrict capital of Banda archipelago and also is the main city in Banda.
		This little landlords had become very famous in Dutch history and also in Banda history as "perkeniers" and their job is to manage and watch the pepper plantation at that time.
	www.petra.ac.id /eastern/maluku/cities/cent_mal/gen_info.htm (330 words)

	Dive Liveaboard Cruise Flores Alor Gunung Api Lucipara Banda Sea Raja Ampar Sorong Irian Jaya Diving 4 Images ...
		The old fort on Banda Besar has great views through the trees to Gunung Api, this is also where we can view the old well where lots of local people were killed, now the locals hold a ceremony each year, the well is cleansed with a very long ceremonial sarong.
		Banda Islands - a great site on Banda Besar we had some large Napoleon wrasse, a small school of blue lined barracuda, unicorns, fusiliers and some interesting small marine life like allied cowries, xeno crabs in sea fans, plenty of blennies and gobies on the reef top too.
		Banda Islands - the group never managed to get into the water early enough to see the full effect of the Mandarin fish ritual in the morning.
	www.diving4images.com /ondina_banda.html (4302 words)

	Global Volcanism Program \| Banda Api \| Photo Gallery
		The 640-m-high symmetrical volcano of Banda Api, the most active of a chain of volcanoes in Indonesia's Banda Sea, forms a small 3-km-wide island within a largely submerged 7-km-wide caldera.
		Residents of Neira moved to the west side of the island on May 9, 1988, at the onset of the eruption of Banda Api, and began evacuating.
		An eruption of Indonesia's Banda Api volcano, seen here on May 10, 1988, took place from a N-SSW-trending fissure that cut across the island.
	www.volcano.si.edu /world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0605-09=&VErupt=Y&VSources=Y&VRep=Y&VWeekly=N&volpage=photos (380 words)

	Dive Global :: Diver's Tales :: The Azores!
		One reason Banda's reefs thrive is because local fishermen are unusually vigilant in safeguarding their source of fish.
		The other reason is Des Alwi, the Bandas' ecotourism-minded orang lima, or ``chief of chiefs.'' As the political power broker, the former independence activist established the tourism industry and has a tight grip on commercial activities.
		Banda Neira and the nearby islands have trails that take you through heavily forested mountain ridges, villages, and 400-year-old nutmeg groves.
	www.diveglobal.com /explore_destinations/divertales/feb2002.asp (1470 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		The rivalry for control and dominance of the spice trade in the Bandas became rather "testy" (to say the least) in the early 17th century, and there were numerous armed confrontations, and massacres, involving European crews and the resistant locals.
		The town of Banda Neira boasts of having a number of old Dutch mansions, churches and forts, many in a state of disrepair, but still a reminder of all that was before.
		The view across to the ubiquitous Gung Api from the Mesjid Jami in Salamon is worth the trip in itself, and, along the way, one also finds two other tiny forts (Salamon and Kota), very much overgrown and largely hidden in the trees.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20030810.M01 (1293 words)

	Bali Diving Live aboard - PADI scuba diving, Live aboard, training, courses, Internship and IDC in Bali
		Isolated in the middle of the Banda sea, the small group of islands that came to be known as the spice islands have had a remarkable – if tragic - history.
		The highlight of the voyage will undoubtely be the banda islands, jewel of the banda sea and one of the most scenic place of the whole indonesian archipelago.
		Wether you decide to spend the three days in the banda’s mainly underwater or on firm land, this undoubtely will be the most unforgetable part of this unusual and exceptional voy-age of discovery.
	www.bali-diving-bali.com /monalisa/montinerary.htm (951 words)

	The Banda-Islands
		There are several fortresses at Banda build by the V.O.C., graves of old Dutch East Indies families and several old "perkeniers-"buildings.
		When you arrive at Banda the plane is landing on the island Banda-Neira, the centre-island.
		Next to the island of Banda-Neira lies the vulcano Gunung Api and opposite there is the island Lonthor, where in earlier times several nutmegplantations of the V.O.C. existed.
	home.planet.nl /~vdbroeke/bandar.htm (428 words)

	BANDA ISLANDS - Online Information article about BANDA ISLANDS
		Wai or Ai still farther west, with Run on its south-west; Pisang, north of Gunong Api; and Suwangi, north-west again.
		Shortly after, however, Banda Neira and Lontor were resigned by the natives to the British, and in 1620 Run and Wai were added to their dominions; but in spite of See also:
		possession until 1796, when the Banda Islands were taken by the British.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAI_BAR/BANDA_ISLANDS.html (750 words)

	April 2, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Nearly a century more of treachery and deceit ensued, during which most of the natives were slaughtered, control of the islands changed hands like the monsoons, fertile islands were razed to prevent crops from falling into conquering hands, and skirmishes in the region lead to wars in Europe.
		Peace was finally established in 1667 when the tiniest of the Bandas was traded by the Brits to the Dutch for an unassuming piece of land in the New World now called Manhattan.
		Above water this Gununag Api is a sea bird haven, boobies and frigate birds soar the skies.
	www.cpinternet.com /rhedlund/Banda2004/Pearls.htm (3654 words)

	Pilot Guides.com: Spice Wars in the Banda Islands
		Spices had value not only for their exotic and unique flavours but also their medicinal properties, balancing the "humours" of the body and as a symbol of extreme opulence and luxury.
		Banda was so rich at the time, people used to joke that when you shake a nutmeg tree golden guilders would fall down.
		Despite its threatening appearance Gunung Api has only erupted four times in the last four hundred years although the last time in 1988 it forced the evacuation of everyone in Bandas.
	www.pilotguides.com /destination_guide/asia/indonesia/spice_wars.php (548 words)

	Nutmeg Plantations
		Since the sixteenth century the Portuguese, followed by the Dutch and for a time the English, have farmed the rich volcanic soil for the one indigenous product it produces better than any other spot in the world.
		Galleons wallowed and clippers sped across 15,000 miles of ocean with countless tons of the precious nuts, completing the process of transmuting the belchings of the primeval crater of which Gunung Api is but a tiny grandchild into substantial fortunes.
		Most of the buildings on the island are made of stone, and this largely marble brought from Europe on return trips of the nutmeg ships.
	www.wellofstars.com /DCS/nutmeg_plantations.htm (392 words)

	Diving Banda Sea Dive Snakes Gunung Api Lucipara Banda Niera Islands Dive Liveaboard
		Below is a brief rundown on the islands within the Banda Sea that are enroute by dive liveaboards:
		Excellent wall diving is to be had here, in areas there are great walls with caverns, swim throughs, grottos, large colourful sea fans, whip bushes and giant sponges lots of turtle sightings, a few little reef sharks, lots of tuna, jacks, napoleon wrasse and schools of unicorns, fusiliers and snappers.
		Banda Niera and surrounding islands - this is home of the Best Mandarin Fish Site I have ever came across, and so says everyone that I have dived here with too.
	www.diving4images.com /dive_banda.html (1173 words)

	Scuba Diving Bali Indonesia Liveaboard Travel
		Bay of Maumere, Alor, Islands of Gunung Api, Lucipara and Penyu, Islands of Banda, Gorong, Misool - archipelago of Rajah Empat - Sorong.
		Banda Archipelago: Known as one of the areas with greater potential for diving in Indonesia, this group of islands offer dives of all types: from "lagoons" with shallow waters, to adrenaline drift dives along deep walls decorated with an extensive marine profusion of life and a great abundance of fish.
		Maumere Bay- Alor - Islands of Gunung Api, Lucipara and Penyu - Banda Islands- Ambon.
	amrnour.com /indonesia-mvondina.htm (1320 words)

	Spice Islands Archaeology Project-Research Results
		On Banda Besar Island, Earthwatch crews excavated two units in the highlands in the center of the island, both of which had sparse cultural deposits of shallow depth.
		The work on Banda Besar remains inconclusive however, as there probably was a considerable population living on other parts of the island, despite the fact that we did not find rich sites.
		Thanks also to Syukani Thalib and his students at Banda's SMU 1 high school for their hard work in preparing the museum exhibit, and Des Alwi and Yayasan Warisan dan Budaya Banda Naira for providing the space for the exhibit and arranging the opening ceremonies.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Anthropology/SIAP/researchresults.html (2261 words)

	History of Railways in Indonesia
		The Aceh line was later regauged to 750 mm (2' 5½"), and was completed to Besitang, 520 km southeast of Banda Aceh, in 1917, where a junction was made with the DSM line from Medan.
		The Atjeh Staatsstoomtram was transferred from the military to the SS in January 1, 1916.
		In North Sumatra it was Kereta Api Soematera Oetara Negara Repoeblik Indonesia.
	members.tripod.com /~keretapi/history.html (3559 words)

	BAM: Banda Dreams, Under the Elms, November 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the distance is Gunung Api, an active volcano, and the town of Neira.
		Until a century ago, the part of Indonesia where Lape hopes to con-duct his research - called the Banda Islands - were the world's only source of nutmeg and mace.
		Very little is known about life on the Banda Islands before and after colonization; it is on this empty page that Lape hopes to make his mark.
	www.brownalumnimagazine.com /storydetail.cfm?ID=856 (461 words)

	MALUKU, THE INDONESIA TOURISM : INTERESTING PLACES
		The Banda group, about 132 kilometers southeast of Ambon, consists of three larger islands and seven smaller ones, perched on the rim of Indonesia's deepest sea, the Banda Sea.
		The seas around Banda are the site of the famous Maluku sea gardens with their bright corals and colorful fish darting through the crystal- clear waters.
		Facilities for sightseeing, snorkeling and skin diving are available, as well as clean, comfortable cottages.
	www.indonesia-tourism.com /maluku/places.html (810 words)

	Transportation
		There are motor boats which sail from Naira to the other small islands, like Gunung Api, Lonthoir, Ay, Run, etc. in Banda island.
		The lack of vehicle in here has made Banda become a quiet place and free from pollution and also cause people to prefer travelling on foot.
		In Jos Sudarso sea harbour, there are pioneering ships that visit Banda in their way to Southeast Maluku.
	www.petra.ac.id /eastern/maluku/trans_banda.htm (485 words)

	Spice Islands Archaeology Project-Historic maps of Banda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		central component of this research project on pre-colonial Banda are the maps and images drawn by the first European visitors to the islands in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
		These maps and images provide glimpses into Bandanese society prior to the massacre and conquest of the islands by the Dutch in the 1620's,and provide comparative information that is used with archaeological data.
		Map of Banda, from the voyage of van Neck to the East Indies, 1599.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Anthropology/SIAP/historicmaps.html (258 words)

	Raja Ampat Diving - Diving Raja Ampat, Raja Ampat Liveaboards, Irian Jaya Indonesia
		Banda Sea Diving - Ambon - Banda - Raja Ampat
		Begin in Ambon, Cruise through the Banda Islands and North through Raja Ampat to Sorong.
		The Banda Islands - history, volcano, mandarian fish and sites off the coast of Ceram and Ambon.
	www.cityseahorse.com /banda-sea-diving.html (1903 words)

	photo gallery - inglese
		Daniele Carnevali conducts the Banda on the stage of the 5th International Contest "Flicorno d'Oro" of Riva del Garda
		The Banda Civica Musicale conducted by Jan Van der Roost
		Johan de Meij rehers with Astrid Crone and Johan van Iersel for the concert in the Sala Verdi of the Conservatory of Milan (septemer 2000)
	www.bandasoncino.it /ealbum.htm (231 words)

	SMY Ondina, Indonesia Liveaboard, Komodo Liveaboard, Raja Ampat Liveaboard, Banda Sea Liveaboard trips
		Banda Islands : Full of history, volcanos, forts and spices.
		The nine small, jewel-like volcanic islands of the Banda Group, became world famous from the 17th to 19th centuries as the original Spice Islands of the Dutch colonial history.
		These were the islands Christopher Columbus was heading for in 1492 when the American continent got in his way.
	www.cityseahorse.com /indonesia-liveaboard-schedule.php (2778 words)

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