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	Bangka (Sulawesi) - Wikitravel
		Bangka is a group of islands off the coast of North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
		Bangka is about 90 minutes Manado, using a combination of car and boat.
		Bangka area is not part of the Bunaken Marine park, so there is no fee or permit.
	wikitravel.org /en/Bangka_area (586 words)

	The History of Bangka Island
		Subsequently it was occupied by Sriwijaya Kingdom (686 AD) who was written "Wangka" which means "Tin" on a stone, that's why Bangka Island is also called "Tin Island", the stone was found in the Western part of the island, near Kota Kapur, now the stone still can be seen at the National Museum in Jakarta.
		Bangka is famous for two other events; the Banka Island Massacre in WWII by the Japanese of Australian Nurses and as reputedly the setting for the book "Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad.
		Bangka is also home to a number of Indonesians communist that has been under house arrest since the 1960's and are not permitted to leave the island.
	www.indonesia-tourism.com /bangka-belitung/history.html (206 words)

	Bangka — FactMonster.com
		Pangkalpinang is the largest town; Muntok is the principal port.
		Since c.1710, Bangka has been one of the world's principal tin-producing centers.
		Bangka was ceded to Britain by the sultan of Palembang in 1812, but in 1814 it was exchanged with the Dutch for Cochin in India.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0806037.html (133 words)

	Indonesia Regions Sumatera Kepulauan Bangka Belitung
		The South China Sea is to the north, the Java Sea is to the south, and Borneo to the east is separated from Belitung by the Karimata Strait.
		Bangka Island is one of the island belong to Bangka-Belitung Province.
		Bangka can best be reached by air from Jakarta by scheduled flight in just about an hour by jet.
	www.indonext.com /Regions/Sumatera/Kepulauan_Bangka_Belitung (909 words)

	Bangka Belitung (Babel) Tourism
		Bangka Belitung (BABEL) Islands province is the 31st Province in Indonesia, one of the newest provinces.
		Bangka Belitung province is located between 104°50' - 109°30' East Longitude and 0°50' - 4°10' South Latitude, with its total area of 81,724.54 km.
		Administrativelly, Bangka Belitung comprises of 2 regencies and 1 city, namely Bangka regency, Belitung regency and Pangkal Pinang City, of which, the biggest regency's area is Bangka regency with 11,534.14 km area, and the smallest is Pangkal Pinang City, with 89.40 km area.
	www.indonesia-tourism.com /bangka-belitung/index.html (516 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bangka, Indonesia (Indonesian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Bangka or Banka[both: bAng´kA, bang´ku] Pronunciation Key, island (1990 pop.
		Pangkalpinang is the largest town; Muntok is the principal port.
		Bangka was ceded to Britain by the sultan of Palembang in 1812, but in 1814 it was exchanged with the Dutch for Cochin in India.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bangka.html (222 words)

	ANTARA News :: Bangka Belitung fertile ground for human trafficking
		Pangkalpinang (ANTARA News) - Bangka Belitung province is a fertile ground for the operations of human trafficking syndicates as the world`s biggest tin producing region is also full of ecoomic activities facilitating their illegal practices, a local women rights protection activist said.
		Human trafficking cases were rife in Bangka Belitung but the local authorities had yet to take maximal actions to solve them because there was no law to protect women and children from human trafficking although the Criminal Code actually could be used to fight the trade, Ramidha said.
		But she disclosed that human trafficking in the province happened because many women were deceived to be involved in such illegal activity but there were also some of them who intended to take part in the illicit business which in the end led them into prostitution.
	www.antara.co.id /en/arc/2006/9/18/bangka-belitung-fertile-ground-for-human-trafficking (340 words)

	Bangka-Belitung travel guide - Wikitravel
		Bangka-Belitung is a province in Indonesia consisting of the islands of Bangka and Belitung (Billiton), just off the south-eastern coast of Sumatra.
		Bangka and Belitung serve as relaxing weekend breaks for office-goers in Jakarta and Palembang.
		Both Bangka and Belitung offer similar experiences for the tourist, but Belitung is considerably more laid back of the two.
	wikitravel.org /en/Bangka-Belitung (202 words)

	Bangka Island History
		During the 17th Century, Bangka Island was inhabited by Hindu, people from Siantan and Johor of Malaysia.
		Bangka has its own unique crafts witch are made of Bahar root (a kind of seaweed), craftsmen make it into various kinds of souveniers such as rings, bracelets, cigarette pipes, etc. There are also handycrafts made of tinor pewter.
		Sepintu Sedulang dance performed to welcome distinguished guests, the dance describes the open-hearted character of the Bangkanese people, it is also performed during festive occations, other dance is Lion dance, it is performed to chase away evil spirits, some dancers being under a magicianis influence go into a trance.
	www.world66.com /asia/southeastasia/indonesia/bangka_island/history (199 words)

	Bangka Island
		Carefully concealing evidence of the wound in her side that she carried from the massacre on the beach, Vivian and the soldier surrendered to the Japanese on the 28th of February.
		For her, it proved to be the right decision as, although incarcerated in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps on Bangka Island and Java over the next three and a half years, she lived to tell the tale.
		The return to Bangka Island was a defining experience for the seven nurse survivors in the party.
	www.anzacday.org.au /history/ww2/anecdotes/bangka.html (1726 words)

	Scuba Diving in Bangka Island and Lembeh Strait, Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
		Live aboard scuba diving around Bangka Island and Lembeh Strait with M/V Sea Dancer, this is a custom dive trip depends on your needs because there are many dive spots around Lembeh Strait area and not possible to explore all of them in just one day.
		Bangka Island is located in the north of the tip of Sulawesi.
		This group of islands and the adjoining coast is known for the strong currents and the pelagic fishes and large schools of fish you can find here and also you can find plenty of colorful and beautiful reef.
	www.bunakendivers.com /bangkalembeh_en.html (466 words)

	Bangka Diving Sites - Manado
		The island of Bangka, with its rolling hills of green fields and forests, and the nearby islands of Gangga and Talise offer over 25 dive sites with fringing reef slopes and pinnacles carpeted in soft corals.
		Batu Mandi is just off the Sulawesi mainland, opposite Bangka, and consists of a large rock jutting out of the surface, forming a steep slope.
		Liveaboard season in the Bangka area runs year round.
	www.divetheworldindonesia.com /manado-diving-sites-bangka.htm (471 words)

	RETURN TO BANGKA ISLAND (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When we left Jakarta to travel to Bangka Is, the mood changed as the purpose of the trip took the women closer to their memories.
		The return to Bangka Island was a defining experience not only for the seven nurse survivors, but also for the nurses who sailed on the Empire Star and for many of the relatives of the nurses.
		Later she was introduced to a successful businessman, born on Bangka Island who had been involved in several development projects.
	www.rcna.org.au /content/return_to_bangka_island.html (2402 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		The rapid expansion of illegal mining on the islands started with the rolling out of regional autonomy, which allowed the Bangka Belitung provincial administration to issue licenses to local companies to export tin, despite the central government's ban on the export of unprocessed tin.
		According to the ministry, the illegal mining industry on Bangka island employs an estimated 17,000 miners, and supplies about half of the country's annual tin output.
		Bangka island, situated off the coast of Sumatra, has the world's largest tin deposits with some 420,000 tons of proven reserves, not including those located offshore.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20050531.L05 (456 words)

	The Bangka Island Massacre, February 1942
		As the ship sailed through the treacherous strait between Sumatra and Bangka, she was attacked by Japanese bombers.
		Although they were in sight of land it took them eight hours, and night had fallen before they reached the mangrove lined shore of Bangka Island.
		She returned to the beach on Bangka Island in 1993 to attend the unveiling of a memorial to the nurses who died and donated her diaries to the Australian War Memorial; the uniform she wore when she was shot, complete with bullet holes, is also part of the Australian War Memorial's permanent collection.
	www.geocities.com /dutcheastindies/bangka_massacre.html (1545 words)

	Indonesian tropical island torn apart by tin mining - Boston.com
		The coconut palms on the tropical beaches of the Indonesian island of Bangka open up to reveal a landscape so devastated by mining that it bears an eerie resemblance to the surface of the moon.
		Welcome to the tin mines of Bangka where miners dig deep into the earth in search of tin ore -- the raw material for the metal used in coating soft drink cans and solders for computer chips.
		Yet, the miners of Bangka see little of the riches as they eke out a living on their tropical paradise.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2007/04/09/indonesian_tropical_island_torn_apart_by_tin_mining (935 words)

	TIMEasia.com: Asian Journey 2001
		The Chinese certainly are neither on the island of Bangka, a two-hour ferry ride north of Palembang.
		The impact of the tin mines is visible in the lifeless green pools that dot the landscape.
		On Bangka, men mine tin from the coastal seabed, employing motor-powered pumps to vacuum the sea floor onto patchwork floating trays in which they search for their prize.
	www.time.com /time/asia/features/journey2001/southeast_asia4.html (1063 words)

	archipelaGoBabel
		A beautifully decorated temple is found near Tayu in the north of Bangka island.
		Bangka is the main tin producer in Indonesia and is also well-known for its white pepper.
		The province is surrounded by the South China Sea, the Bangka straights and the Java sea.
	www.archipelago-emag.com /provinces/babel/babeltour.html (1189 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		Bangka, where president Soekarno stayed during his exile in the Dutch colonial era, is not only famous for its tin but for its rich marine life.
		Another kind of resort is Batavia Bangka Beach, which is still under construction with its planned 60 units of housing up for sale.
		If you happen to go to Bangka a few days before Ramadhan, you might like to visit Limbung village in Merawang district where Mandi Berlimau is held annually, seven days before the religious holiday.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20061009.R02 (1094 words)

	Bangka - MSN Encarta
		Bangka, also Banka, island of the Malay Archipelago, in the Java Sea, western Indonesia, separated from Sumatra by Bangka Strait.
		Both mining and production of tin are controlled by the Indonesian government.
		Pangkalpinang (population, 1980, 90,096) is the largest town of Bangka, and the chief port is Muntok.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565506/Bangka.html (95 words)

	Smedal, Olaf H. - Order and Difference: An Ethnographic Study of Orang Lom of Bangka, West Indonesia - AnthroBase.com
		Bangka is situated east of South Sumatra at 1 30' — 37' southern latitude and 105 45' — 107 eastern longitude.
		The island is bordered to the north and northeast by the South China Sea, to the east by the Gaspar Strait (separating it from the island Belitung), to the west by the Bangka strait (separating it from Sumatra), and to the south and southeast by the Java Sea.
		The reasons he gave for this are that the language of the Sekak differs considerably from that of the Lom and that the funeral practices are dissimilar.
	www.anthrobase.com /Txt/S/Smedal_O_02.htm (15519 words)

	Big Canoes.
		The difference between the Pagpakan and Bangka is the Pagpakan have many bamboo poles radiating outward from the boat to hold the fishing nets.
		I know the fishing Bangkas deploy their nets over the flat stern and lay it out in a circle then close the net and pull it in to get their catch as many western style fishing boats do.
		They usually have a gasoline or deisel engine that came from a small car and the cooling water runs in a through the hull pipe that runs up and down the boat and is in contact with the sea water outside.
	www.angelfire.com /ex/ti/BigCanoes.html (305 words)

	Asia Dive Site \| Indonesia dive sites :: Sulawesi : Bangka
		Bangka and the surrounding islands lie off the northern tip of Sulawesi.
		The islands in the group consist of Bangka, Talise, Kinabohutan, Tindila, Gangga and tamperong.
		Batu Gasoh consists of a number of steep pinnacles rising up from the depths, a drift can be done around them and there are plenty of areas to escape the current.
	www.asiadivesite.com /indonesia-dive-sites/sulawesi/bangka.php (208 words)

	Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia: Liveaboard scuba diving with MUREX
		Bangka Island is recognizable for its large expanse of grasslands along the hilltops of the central past of the island.
		In addition to copra, which is harvested from almost all inhabited islands in Indonesia, Bangka produces a large quantity of Cashew nuts.
		Bangka is close enough to Murex to be accessed for day dives in addition being a favorite stop for liveaboard trips.
	www.manado-liveaboards.com /sites.html (1218 words)

	print version of diving in Bangka, Gangga, Pulisan and Benteng in North Sulawesi (Zubi)
		This group of islands and the adjoining coast is known for the strong currents (like a washing machine) and the pelagic fishes and large schools of fish you find here.
		Bangka Island is located just north of the tip of Sulawesi.
		It can be reached from Manado, Bunaken or Lembeh but there are also two dive resorts on Bangka and the neighbor island of Gangga and one in Benteng on the mainland.
	www.starfish.ch /dive/print/Bangka-print.html (881 words)

	Mineweb - FAST NEWS - Indonesian island Bangka decimated by mining
		The coconut palms on the tropical beaches of the Indonesian island of Bangka open up to reveal a landscape so devastated by mining that it bears an eerie resemblance to the surface of the moon.
		Welcome to the tin mines of Bangka where miners dig deep into the earth in search of tin ore -- the raw material for the metal used in coating soft drink cans and solders for computer chips.
		Yet, the miners of Bangka see little of the riches as they eke out a living on their tropical paradise.
	www.mineweb.net /mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page504?oid=19263&sn=Detail (975 words)

	Bangka - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Bangka (or sometimes Banka) is an island lying east of Sumatra, Indonesia.
		Bangka-Belitung Islands is a province of Indonesia, which includes two main islands, Bangka and Belitung, and several smaller ones that lie from the east of Sumatra to the...
		The island is situated off the eastern coast of Sumatra across the...
	encarta.msn.com /Bangka.html (120 words)

	location filming services in Bangka - Belitung island,Indonesia
		An easily accessible beach can be found in the northeast of Bangka, 48 km from Pangkal Pinang and 12 km from Sungai Liat.
		It was built in 1932 during the DUTCH occupation period by Bangka Tin Winning Bedrijf (BTW) as a V.I.P. Guest House on the top of Mount Menumbing, about 500 M above sea level.
		People from Siantan and Johor of Malaysia first discovered tin in Bangka Island in 1710, since then a lot of traders from Asia as well as from Europe stopped and visited Bangka Island.
	www.indonesiafilm.com /bangka.htm (903 words)

	BangkaPos.CyberMedia :: Gerbang Informasi Kepulauan Bangka Belitung
		PANGKALPINANG, BANGKA POS - Tindakan tegas aparat kepolisian terhadap para pemain kayu di Bangka rupanya menimbulkan keresahan.
		SUNGAILIAT, BANGKA POS - Tidak ingin dikejar-kejar polisi, Jamaludin alias Jamal pemilik 800 kg pasir timah yang diamankan dari dalam fiber ikan, akhirnya...
		JEBUS, BANGKA POS - Sejumlah warga pesisir Jebus yang sempat meninggalkan rumah mereka, Minggu (2/12) malam, masih bertahan di pengungsian.
	www.bangkapos.com /berita/b64a7e2c73e0a7eb9dd8453eb1ef4616/0/indeks_halaman/1/0/0/1/0/0/0/0 (262 words)

	Bangka Trip
		Bangka Trip - this trip was undertaken by David Armitage, Dennis Yong, Allan Brown and myself (Tony Pinto) in July 2001.
		Bangka is an island off Sumatra, Indonesia and the home of a number of colourful, interesting and uncommon tropical aquarium fish.
		We travelled there in search of anabantids (air breathing fish) but also found interesting plants, including several Cryptocoryne species.
	groups.msn.com /BangkaTrip (286 words)

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