Gorom Islands

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Gorom Islands
The Goram Islands are located in the east of the Moluccas off New Guinea.
The Goram Islands are located in the east of the Moluccas off New Guinea.
Waters Banda Lake , Seram Lake
archipelago Moluccas
Geographical location 4 ° 1 ′  S , 131 ° 25 ′  E Coordinates: 4 ° 1 ′  S , 131 ° 25 ′  E
Map of Gorom Islands
Number of islands 3
Residents 27,285 (2010)

The Indonesian Gorom Islands ( indon. Kepulauan Gorom , also Gorong Islands or Goram Islands ) belong to the Southern Moluccas .

geography

The Gorom Islands are west of New Guinea , in the outer ribbon arc . Here they are between Seram Island about 40 km to the northwest and the Watubela Islands about 35 km to the southeast. To the northeast is the Seram Sea , to the southwest the Banda Sea .

The islands form the sub-district ( Kecamatan ) Pulau Gorom ( German  Gorominsel ), which belongs to the administrative district ( Kabupaten ) Ostseram ( Seram Bagian Timur ). The administrative district is part of the Maluku Province . Pulau Gorom is divided into eleven Desa ("villages").

The largest of the three islands is Gorom with the towns of Miran ( Miren ) on the east coast, Ondor ( Ondur ) in the north-west and Hur in the south-west. To the west is the island of Panjang with the town of Wisalem in the south and a little further south the island of Manawoka with the towns of Arbau in the north, Amar , Derra and finally Nama in the south.

population

27,285 inhabitants (2010) live on the islands. The Austronesian language Geser-Gorom is traditionally spoken on them , which is also spoken on the southeastern tip of Seram and the small islands between Seram and the Gorom Islands.

additional

The English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace described the islands in 1869. He named them in his main work The Malay Archipelago Goram.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Penduduk Indonesia menurut desa 2010 ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Indonesian; PDF; 6.0 MB), accessed on January 26, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Map of the Seram Bagian Timur administrative district ( Memento from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Map of the Seram Bagian Timur administrative district
  4. ↑ Map of the Maluku Province
  5. ↑ Language map of Indonesia
  6. ^ Wallace, Alfred Russel : 25: Ceram, Goram, and the Matabello Islands . In: The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with sketches of man and nature , 1st edition, Macmillan, 1869.