Haruku
| Haruku | ||
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| Waters | Banda Lake | |
| Archipelago | Lease Islands | |
| Geographical location | 3 ° 34 ′ S , 128 ° 29 ′ E | |
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| length | 19 km | |
| width | 16 km | |
| surface | 178 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 587 m | |
| Residents | 24.207 (2010) 136 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Pelauw | |
Haruku ( Indonesian Pulau Haruku ) is a 178 km² Indonesian island in the southwest of Seram in the province of Maluku and is one of the Lease Islands .
Haruku forms a district ( Kecamatan ) of the administrative district ( Kabupaten ) of the Central Moluccas .
Adjacent to the west is the island of Ambon and to the east Saparua . As on most of the islands of the Moluccas , spices , nutmeg , cloves , curry , caraway and ginger are grown or produced.
The first Europeans to reach Haruku in 1527, the Dutch followed in 1590. Haruku played a special role in World War II, when the Japanese set up a labor camp for Australians and British prisoners of war.
Web links
Commons : Haruku - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Report on the village of Hulaliu (English; PDF; 618 kB)
- Haruku in World War II (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of Indonesia by Village 2010 ( Memento from April 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.9 MB) by Banda Pusat Statistics
- ↑ see research on various numerical values for the lease islands