Damar Islands
| Damar Islands | ||
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| Waters | Banda Lake | |
| archipelago | Barat Daya Islands | |
| Geographical location | 7 ° 9 ′ S , 128 ° 39 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 5 | |
| Main island | Damar | |
| Total land area | 219 km² | |
| Residents | 7112 (2010) | |
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The Indonesian Damar Islands are part of the Barat Daya Islands .
geography
Damar ( Indonesian Pulau Damer ) is with 194.47 km² the largest of the Damar Islands with the atoll Nus Leur (0.33 km²) in the west, Terbang Utara (4.63 km²) and Terbang Selatan (4.78 km²) in the south and Teun (14.18 km²), a little further to the east. Damar, Nus Leur and the Terbang Islands together form the district ( Kecamatan ) Damer , which belongs to the administrative district ( Kabupaten ) of the southwestern Moluccas . The main town of the district is Wulur on Damar. Teun belongs to the Teun Nila Serua District ( Maluku Tengah Governorate ). All islands are part of Maluku Province .
In the west of the archipelago lies Romang with its offshore islands. To the east is the island of Nila . Romang, Damar, Teun and Nila are part of the inner bend , a chain of islands of volcanic origin.
Originally Damar and Teun were inhabited, but the population of Teun was forcibly relocated to Seram between 1979 and 1983 because of the threat from the Serawerna ( 655 m ), the local volcano . The highest mountain in the archipelago is the Wurlali volcano on Damar at 868 m . On the island there are also the mountains Pahwuwi ( 534 m ) and Akrewhi 495 m .
Web links
- Colin R.Trainor: Birds of Damar Island, Banda Sea, Indonesia , November 22, 2006
Individual evidence
- ^ PNAS Islands Database
- ↑ Penduduk Indonesia menurut desa 2010 ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Indonesian; PDF; 6.0 MB), accessed on January 26, 2013
- ↑ Map of the Southwest Moluccas ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mark Janse, Sijmen Tol: Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive Approaches , 2003, pp. 49 ff.
