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Explore the Spice Islands
This is your chance to explore the Spice Islands with Coral Expeditions at a special discount rate. Advertisements
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Tagged banda, coral expeditions, fort belgica, ian burnet, maluku, moluccas, spice islands
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425 kg of spices at the Art Gallery NSW !
Space Makers and Room Shakers until 21 October 2018 Ernesto Neto has made a large sculpture that you can smell before you see — a stretchy shelter filled with the following spices: cloves, tumeric, cumin, paprika, black pepper and fenugreek. … Continue reading
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Tagged art gallery nsw, ernesto neto, ian burnet, space makers and room shakers
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Amazing aerial views of the archeological sites of Indonesia
This amazing video has been produced for the ‘Society of Indonesian Archeologists’ by Feri Latief and is accompanied by the song ‘Tanah Airku’ with the wonderful voice of Shanna Shannon. Please enjoy these remarkable images and I hope you will … Continue reading
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Tagged ambon, banda, borobodur, dieng, feri latief, ian burnet, prambanan, ternate, tidore
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The Singhasari Temple and the Volkenkunde Museum
The Singhasari temple near Malang in East Java is believed to memorialize King Kertanegara, the last of the Singhasari Dynasty. A Javanese chronicle relates that Kertanegara was buried at Singhasari in 1295, three years after his death, and deified … Continue reading
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Tagged bhairiva, durga, ian burnet, malang, singhasari, singhasari temple, volkenkunde museum
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The Greatest Voyage in Maritime History
There is no doubt that the geatest voyage in maritime history is the first circumnavigation of the world by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastian Elcano. Five vessels, all painted black, and known as the ‘Armada de Molucca’ departed Spain in … Continue reading
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Tagged De Elcano, ian burnet, magellan, spice islands, ternate, tidore, trinidad, victoria
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Indonesia’s vanishing tropical glacier
In 1623, the Dutch East India Company sent Jan Carstensz and the vessel Pera on the second expedition to explore the south-land after the 1606 voyage of Willem Jansz and the Duyfken to the Cape York Peninsula. As a … Continue reading
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Batavia – Onrust Island
Pulau Onrust is an island in Jakarta Bay that was developed by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as a shipyard to repair their ships. Consequently it housed a permanent staff of artisans such as carpenters, sailmakers, ropemakers etc.etc. The … Continue reading
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Tagged batavia, captain cook, dutch east india company, ian burnet, jakarta bay, onrust island, pulau onrust, the endeavour, VOC
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