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	Tanimbar Islands - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tanimbar Islands or Tenimbar Islands, group of about 30 islands, c.2,100 sq mi (5,440 sq km), E Indonesia, in the Banda Sea, between the Aru Islands and Timor, in the Moluccas.
		Legacies of the authoritarian past: religious violence in Indonesia's Moluccan Islands (1).
		Historic maps and archaeology as a means of understanding late precolonial settlement in the Banda Islands, Indonesia.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Tanimbar.html (321 words)

	Petroleum potential of the Tanimbar islands
		The Tanimbar islands are situated in the southeastern sector of the Banda arc-continent collision zone (Figure 11).
		Structurally the Tanimbar area comprises a fold and thrust belt, consisting of the imbricated outer edge of the Australian continent, overlain by minor fragments of the pre-collisional oceanic forearc complex.
		In terms of both stratigraphy and structural setting, the Tanimbar islands are closely analogous to the island of Seram in the northern sector of the Banda forearc, which is the location of several producing oil fields.
	www.manson.demon.co.uk /tanimbar.html (459 words)

	Tanimbar Islands -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The islands separate the (additional info and facts about Banda Sea) Banda Sea and the (A part of the western Pacific Ocean north of Australia and south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia) Arafura Sea.
		The total land area of the Islands is 5440 km² (2100 sq mi).
		Yamdena Island has a range of thickly forested hills along its eastern coast, while its western coast is lower.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/tanimbar_islands.htm (141 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Banda Sea Islands moist deciduous forests (AA0102)
		The Banda Islands are part of the inner arc, whereas the rest of the ecoregion is part of the outer arc.
		The inner arc islands represent young volcanoes that have coalesced with lava and sediment.
		Although many of these islands are tiny and uninhabitable, the bird populations are seriously threatened by predatory rats and cats that have been accidentally released onto these islands and by the removal of their eggs for sale by fishers traveling through this area (Whitten and Whitten 1992).
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0102_full.html (1093 words)

	MORELIASNAKE.COM - Morelia nauta and Morelia amethistina - captive breed
		In fact, on the islands the Tanimbar python plays the ecological role of the Green tree python (Morelia viridis) spread all around the area.
		Tanimbar pythons come almost exclusively from their habitat and were caught in the wild.
		Tanimbar pythons habituated to terrarium are not faddy, so can be fed with any kinds of clear, not too fat and constantly available mouse or rat.
	www.moreliasnake.com /article001.php (3340 words)

	ExpeditionTrips.com: Trip Details Page
		The island was settled in the late 19th century, its early fame hard-earned by intrepid men who risked their lives on deep dives for valuable pearl shells.
		The spectacular Tanimbars are the southernmost islands of the Spice Islands (or Moluccas) and home to a mixture of Melanesian races with strong cultural traditions, including Indonesia’s finest boat builders.
		The island’s national park is a sanctuary for the fabled prehistoric giant monitor lizard, the Komodo dragon (known as oras by the locals), which exists only here and on nearby Rinca.
	www.expeditiontrips.com /search/trip.asp?tripid=2114 (1291 words)

	The Japanese occupation of the Banda Sea Islands, 1942
		The KNIL Detachment was send to Tanimbar Islands in July 1942 and it was stationed in the town of Saumlaki.
		Pulling in to the jetty at Saumlaki (Tanimbar Islands) early on the 31st the Chinampa was fired on from the shore and the commander of the Australian detachment on board was killed.
		The Babar Island, located east of Timor Island, was occupied by the Japanese forces at 0310 on 30 July 1942 by a platoon of 3rd Yokosuka SNLF, transported by the submarine-chaser Ch21.
	www.geocities.com /dutcheastindies/banda_sea.html (1460 words)

	Harraden's Habitat
		Tanimbar (Tenimber) Islands, Indonesia, of which Yamdena is the principal island and is said to account for 55 percent of the range of this species.
		It was introduced to the Kai Islands to the north of Tanimbar, where it probably no longer occurs, and to the island of Damar in the Southwest Islands.
		One proposed reserve on Yamdena would protect a large part of the island and would be of great importance for the endemic avifauna.
	www.birdbaby.com /bstreak1.htm (771 words)

	Tanimbar Islands at AllExperts
		The Tanimbar Islands, also called Timor Laut, are a group of about 30 islands in the Maluku province of Indonesia.
		The Aru Islands and Kai Islands lie to the northeast, and Babar Island and Timor lie to the west.
		The islands separate the Banda Sea and the Arafura Sea.
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/ta/tanimbar_islands.htm (220 words)

	Maluku - RMV
		The Southeast Moluccan islands are spread throughout the Banda Sea between Irian Jaya in the east and Timor in the west.
		For a long time at the end of the 20th century western islands such as Leti and Kisar were even completely cut off from the outside world as a result of the Indonesian annexation of East Timor in 1975 and the state of war, which lasted until 1999, that followed.
		The islands in this arc are volcanic and the soil is relatively fertile.
	www.rmv.nl /publicaties/4Maluku/e/e2.html (1222 words)

	Banda Sea Summary
		It is located in eastern Indonesia and bounded on the south by a series of small islands and archipelagoes that curve east and north toward the eastern coast of Sulawesi.
		Islands bordering the Banda Sea include Sulawesi to the west, Buru, Ambon Island, Ceram, Aru Islands, Tanimbar Islands, Barat Daya Islands, and Timor.
		Although the borders of the sea are hazardous to navigation, with many small rocky islands, the middle of the sea is relatively open.
	www.bookrags.com /Banda_Sea (324 words)

	Noonsite: New Cruising Guide - Tanimbar Islands Indonesia
		The closest group of Indonesian islands to Darwin are called the Tanimbars.
		Ten of the islands are inhabited by a total population of some 160,000 people.
		The Tanimbars are an excellent area for sailing during the trade winds.
	www.noonsite.com /Members/doina/R2005-08-07-7 (359 words)

	The Sea Turtle Harvest in the Kai Islands
		Leatherbacks are easily accessible to fishermen in the Kai Islands during October to January, when large numbers congregated in offshore waters to feed on large aggregations of jellyfish.
		It is also situated in a windy location in the islands, and local fishermen have strong and seasoned sailing and hunting skills.
		Subsistence hunting of leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in the Kai Islands, Indonesia.
	www.arbec.com.my /sea-turtles/art1julysept01.htm (2519 words)

	inlanderz
		There are 67 islands in the Tanimbar group, most of them tiny, separated by shallow waters and ringed with mangrove forests and coral reefs.
		The remoteness of Tanimbar Island has helped protect it from the ravages experienced by forest in much of Indonesia, and Yamdena supports the most extensive tracts of monsoon and semi evergreen forest in eastern Indonesia.
		The trapper’s explanation illustrates the confusion about implementation of the law on Tanimbar: in fact, all trapping is illegal and KSDA does not have the authority to issue a trapping permit for these species, which are protected.
	inlanderz.blogspot.com (7876 words)

	Bird Ecology Study Group, Nature Society (Singapore): Tanimbar Corella and Yellow-crested Cockatoo
		Tanimbar Corella is native to the Tanimbar Islands of Wallacea.
		In Singapore, the Tanimbar Corella feeds on the fruits of various wayside trees like Sea Almond (Terminalia catappa), pong pong (Cerbera odollam) and starfruit (Averrhoa carambola).
		Yellow-crested and Tanimbar are listed in Appendix I of CITES while Sulphur-crested is in Appendix 2.
	besgroup.blogspot.com /2006/10/tanimbar-corella-and-yellow-crested.html (451 words)

	Banda Sea Islands (Endemic Birds Areas of the world) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Unlike the volcanic Banda arc, the Tanimbar and Kai islands are composed of limestone, and almost flat, with the exception of Kai Besar which is long, narrow and hilly.
		The distribution and habitat requirements of the birds of this EBA are poorly known, as some of the smaller islands have seldom, if ever, been visited by ornithologists, and even the larger island groups have only been visited on a handful of occasions.
		Threats and conservation In the Tanimbar group, the main island of Yamdena remains well forested, with clearance for agriculture mainly confined to a narrow strip along the coast, although the south of the island is covered by a logging concession (Cahyadin 1993, Sujatnika et al.
	www.birdlife.org /datazone/ebas/index.html?action=EbaHTMDetails.asp&sid=165&m=0 (649 words)

	Logging in Yamdena - Background Information
		The islands were known as the Dutch East Indies until 1949, when the state of Indonesia achieved independence from colonial rule.
		Yamdena is the largest of the Tanimbar islands, a small group of islands which form part of the Maluku chain, which stretches across eastern Indonesia.
		The soil is prone to erosion without its tree cover, as deforestation on other islands has shown - some islands in the Tanimbar group are today barren as a result of previous logging.
	www.earthaction.org /en/archive/97-04-foryam/background.html (1170 words)

	Aru Islands — Infoplease.com
		The islands were discovered by the Dutch, who colonized them after 1623.
		Tanimbar Islands - Tanimbar Islands Tanimbar Islands or Tenimbar Islands, group of about 30 islands, c.2,100 sq mi...
		Song of the dodo: island biogeography in an age of extinctions.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0804899.html (320 words)

	Tanimbar Islands: definition, usage and pronunciation - YourDictionary.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tanimbar Islands: definition, usage and pronunciation - YourDictionary.com
		An island group of southeast Indonesia in the southern Moluccas east-northeast of Timor.
		The islands were discovered by the Dutch in 1629.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/t/t0036500.html (30 words)

	Adventure Yarns Books about Boats
		The Tanimbar Islands are situated in the Arafura Sea roughly 300 km to the north of Darwin in northern Australia.
		This is at the bottom of Yamdena Island, being the biggest and main island in the Tanimbar group.
		It is situated roughly 300 sea miles almost due north of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory of Australia.
	www.takehersailing.com /advyarns_info/TanimbarExperience.htm (1837 words)

	BIRDCHAT archives -- July 1999, week 1 (#65)
		It is endemic to the Tanimbar Islands of Indonesia, and is still common on Yamdena, the largest island of the group.
		It was also recorded from the Kai Islands in 1898-1899, but not since, and this population is supposed to be of feral origin, as is the one in your country.
		On the Tanimbar Islands themselves, the populations was estimated at 200,000 birds in 1993, though many were captured for the pet trade in the 1980s (over 52,000 recorded in the international trade between 1983 and 1989).
	listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9907a&L=birdchat&F=&S=&P=6736 (381 words)

	From A Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, Gender and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands by Susan McKinnon
		However, the book represents a significant contribution to Indonesian literature in that it covers various modern forms of social organizations, relations and division of labor between the sexes and marriage practices of an obscure society living in the remote Tanimbar Island group in Southeast Maluku in the far eastern corner of the archipelago.
		No group of islands exemplifies the extreme isolation of the Moluccas than the unusual and enigmatic Tanimbars.
		On the basis of extensive fieldwork in the Tamimbar islands, Susan McKinnon brilliantly analyzes the simultaneous presence of both closed, asymmetric cycles and open, asymmetric pathways of alliance-of both egalitarian and hierarchical configurations.
	www.baliadvertiser.biz /articles/tokobuku/2005/shattered_sun.html (634 words)

	Logging in Yamdena: An action alert
		The largest island - Yamdena - is 435,000 hectares in area, two thirds of which is forested.
		The first they knew was when loggers arrived on their island and began to cut down their trees.
		The Tanimbar islands are fragile environments, built on limestone outcrops.
	www.earthaction.org /en/archive/97-04-foryam/alert.html (524 words)

	Changi Heritage: The natural history of Changi
		The cockatoo at Changi Village is the Tanimbar Cockatoo (Cacatua goffini).
		Elsewhere in Singapore, there are a few populations of the Tanimbar Cockatoo including about 40 on Sentosa.
		In Singapore, the Tanimbar Cockatoo feeds on the fruits of various trees....in particular the Sea Almond (Terminalia catappa).
	habitatnews.nus.edu.sg /heritage/changi/villagebirds/index.html (330 words)

	Banda Arc Geophysics Home
		These arcs are centred on the Banda Sea and extend from Seram (Ceram) in the north, southward and around to the Tanimbar Islands and the island of Timor.
		One of the primary aims of the site is to combine the author's earlier (late 1980s-1990) work on the gravity of the islands of Timor, Tanimbar and Kai with the very latest satellite derived gravity and topographic data sets to produce high-quality images and maps.
		There are individual sections for the different Indonesian island groups: Timor, Tanimbar, Kai, Sawu (savu) and Sumba and Leti to Babar.
	www.stevekaye.nadsl.net (320 words)

	Tanimbar Islands - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Group of about 30 islands, southeastern Moluccas, Indonesia.
		It includes the large island of Jamdena, 70 mi (113 km) long by 28 mi (45 km) wide, and the nearby islands of Larat and Selaru.
		Though there is a lack of fresh water, the soil supports corn, rice, coconut palms, and fruits.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-380229.html (354 words)

	Off the Beaten Path - Maluku Province Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		However the smaller islands to the west are lush with fine coral reefs, and tiny Goraici and Lilei in particular boost perhaps the very finest white sand beaches in North Maluku.
		These islands in South-East Maluku are most famous for their ancient megalithic structures, traditional weaving, woodcarving and dancing, but also have fine beaches.
		The regional capital of Saumlaki is located on Yamdena, the largest island in the Tanimbar group.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Asia/Indonesia/Maluku_Province/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Maluku_Province-BR-1.html (561 words)

	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Tyto sororcula
		Tyto sororcula is known from the island of Buru (and probably Seram) in South Maluku and Yamdena and Larat in the Tanimbar group, Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
		Nevertheless, it occurs in primary and selectively-logged lowland evergreen forest, a habitat that is being rapidly cleared from islands within its range by loggers and shifting cultivators.
		Establish protected areas of forest on Buru and the Tanimbar islands, ensuring that habitat is adequately managed and legislation enforced.
	www.iucnredlist.org /search/details.php/22722/all (793 words)

	A brief introduction to Eclectus Parrots Part 1: Classification
		All Eclectus are native to the Moluccan Islands, the Lesser Sundra Islands, the Tanimbar Islands, the Papuan Islands, New Guinea, other islands in the region, and the coastal area of the eastern Cape York Peninsula in Australia.
		Because the two subspecies are virtually identical except for size, the result is a bird that is intermediate in size.
		Solomon Islands are the smallest, Red-sided's are next, and Macgillivray's are the largest.
	www.theaviary.com /eclet.shtml (634 words)

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