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Explore the Spice Islands

Posted on August 14, 2018 by ianburnet

This is your chance to explore the Spice Islands with Coral Expeditions at a special discount rate.

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425 kg of spices at the Art Gallery NSW !

Posted on August 6, 2018 by ianburnet

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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Amazing aerial views of the archeological sites of Indonesia

Posted on July 24, 2018 by ianburnet

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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The Singhasari Temple and the Volkenkunde Museum

Posted on July 10, 2018 by ianburnet

  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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The Greatest Voyage in Maritime History

Posted on June 21, 2018 by ianburnet

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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Indonesia’s vanishing tropical glacier

Posted on June 4, 2018 by ianburnet

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

Posted on May 15, 2018 by ianburnet

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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Toko Buku – Bill Dalton’s Review of ‘Where Australia Collides with Asia’

Posted on April 19, 2018 by ianburnet

This ambitious, sweeping history surveys both the cataclysmic shifts of continents and also the lives of some of the world’s greatest scientist-explorers. The story, as told in the book’s Prologue, begins as the Australian land mass breaks away from Antarctica … Continue reading →

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Where Australia collides with Asia – An animation of the amazing voyage of Continent Australia

Posted on April 10, 2018 by ianburnet

    Continent Australia started to break away from Gondwanaland and Antartica more than 100 million years ago and finally seperated 50 million years ago to make its journey north towards the equator. Continent Australia, which includes Papua-New Guinea slowly … Continue reading →

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Mapping where Australia collides with Asia

Posted on March 27, 2018 by ianburnet

This map from the University of California, San Diego, shows both height above sea level and depth below sea level. The height above sea level is a direct measurement from NASA altimetry data. The water depth below sea level is … Continue reading →

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