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Indonesia, 2024 (#1 in teaser series: precious)

 

Our first primary destination was the quintessential “spice island”,

In eastern Indonesia’s North Maluku province, Ternate is small in area, but handsomely that province’s most populous island.

Its active volcano – Mt Gamalama, which rises 1,715 metres ASL – has long been Ternate’s key benefactor and destroyer.

The Maluku Islands are also known as “the Moluccas”, or “the Spice Islands”.

In pre-colonial times the Sultanate of Ternate was wealthy and powerful, thanks to it then having a global monopoly over a highly prized commodity.

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