Bacan

This ecoregion represents the moist forests on Halmahera, Morotai, Obi, Bacan, and the other nearby Maluku Islands in the northeastern Indonesian Archipelago.

Halmahera rain forests 2008

The most luxuriant rain forests occur in northwest Morotai and north Halmahera, as opposed to the south arm of Halmahera, which is in the rain shadow of north Halmahera and Bacan.

Halmahera rain forests 2008

A mining company, PT Halmahera Mineral (NHM), has already obtained an exploration license for Bacan and "neighboring islands" to look for gold and other minerals.

Halmahera rain forests 2008

Bacan is a mixture of volcanic inner island arc and some crustal materials.

Halmahera rain forests 2008

The world's largest bee-the rare, 4-cm Wallace's giant bee Chalocodoma pluto-is also found on Bacan, Tidore, and Halmahera.

Halmahera rain forests 2008

He subdued Bacan and Tidore, then sent a conquering fleet to Banggai, Tobunku, Butung, and Salayar.

e. Maluku (Eastern Indonesia), 1500-17th Century 2001

Hybrids between the Sulawesi warty pig and the common domestic pig occur on New Guinea, Ternate, Morotai, Bacan, Amron, Seram, Kei island, Aru island, and Sulawatti.

11 The Bearded Pig 1983

We are told that in this war Alboin sought the aid of Bacan, chagan of the Avars, promising him half the spoil and all the land of the Gepidæ in case of victory.

Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German Charles Morris 1877

Bacan, who promised that the lives of all should be preserved, that the ship's company should be sent to England, the officers to pay a reasonable ransom, and in the meantime to be free from the galleys or imprisonment.

How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Ronsard the French Poet was so far from writing ill French, that Pasquier thought the French Tongue in its Perfection in his Writings and yet upon the Appearance of Malherb and Bacan, he was no more read nor talk'd of; Whereas there were Authors before him, whose Writings are now in general Esteem, as Marot and St. Galais, for the kind of Poetry in which they excell'd, and their Stile is imitated for its Simplicity, by which la Fountain acquir'd his Fame.

Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to the Earl of Oxford, About the English Tongue. 1712