Serua

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Serua
Southwest Moluccas with Nila in the northeast
Southwest Moluccas with Nila in the northeast
Waters Banda Lake
Archipelago Barat Daya Islands
Geographical location 6 ° 18 '34 "  S , 130 ° 0' 47"  E Coordinates: 6 ° 18 '34 "  S , 130 ° 0' 47"  E
Serua (Moluccan Papua)
Serua
length 4.1 km
width 2.1 km
surface 6.52 km²
Highest elevation Gunung Serua
641  m
Residents 2002 (2010)
307 inhabitants / km²
main place Why

Serua ( Indonesian Pulau Serua ) is one of the Indonesian Barat Daya Islands in the Banda Sea .

geography

Serua is east of the Damar Islands , between Timor and New Guinea . Its area is 6.52 km². Together with their southwestern neighbors Teun and Nila , the three islands with a few small islets form the sub-district ( Kecamatan ) Teun Nila Serua . This belongs to the administrative district ( Kabupaten ) Maluku Tengah , Maluku Province . Nila, Teun and Serua belong to the inner Bandabogen , a chain of islands of volcanic origin.

To the west, off the coast of Serua, are the small islands of Kekeh-Besar ( Big Kekeh ) and Kekeh-Ketjil ( Little Kekeh ). Between Serua and Nila is the small island of Nile Desperandum .

The active stratovolcano Serua ( Legatala ) lies on Serua with a height of 641  m . Measured from the sea floor, it is even 3600  m . The main peak is called Wuarlapna . The volcano last erupted in 1921. However, volcanic gases are constantly escaping from the crater. There are hot springs on the north beach of the island.

population

In the west is the Desa ( village ) Trana (530 inhabitants, census 2010), on the north coast Lesluru (451) and on the east coast Waru (1,021). The local language Serua belongs to the language group Teun-Nila-Serua ( TNS ), whereby Serua and Nila are more similar than the third language Teun .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ PNAS Islands Database
  2. ↑ a b Penduduk Indonesia menurut desa 2010 ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Indonesian; PDF; 6.0 MB), accessed on January 26, 2013
  3. ↑ a b c Map of Pulau Nila
  4. ↑ Gunung Bagging
  5. ↑ Volcano Discovery: Nila
  6. ↑ Mark Janse, Sijmen Tol: Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive Approaches , 2003, pp. 49 ff.