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- An island of eastern Indonesia in the northern Moluccas east of northeast Sulawesi. Settled by the Portuguese (1522–1574), it was subjugated by the Dutch in 1683.
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After brief stops on the islands of Timor, Banda, and Amboyna, he fetched up at a place called Ternate.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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After brief stops on the islands of Timor, Banda, and Amboyna, he fetched up at a place called Ternate.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Ternate, which is in about the same latitude as Singapore, is said to have been the spot where it was truly indigenous, but no doubt the tree is to be found on most of the Moluccas.
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Motir, which was then called Ternate, a deputy, or viceroy, of the king of that island came off to the ship in a great canoe, and entreated the admiral to anchor at that island, and not at Tidore; assuring him, in the name of the king, that he would be wondrous glad to see him, and to do all that the admiral could require.
Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main Gordon Browne 1867
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The king of Ternate is a prince of great power, having seventy islands under his authority, besides Ternate, which is the best of the Molucca islands.
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Enny Inayat al Hadar , a woman who specializes in eastern Indonesian food from Ternate, set up a Facebook page and started taking special orders after catering an event last year.
Jakarta's Secretive Restaurant Scene Sara Schonhardt 2011
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EPA Mount Gamalama spewed thick ash and gas as seen from Ternate, Indonesia, on Monday.
Asia in Pictures 2011
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He fell in love on first sight with the island of Ternate in 1512, and set himself up as trade emissary and god-king.
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The rich volcanic soils of Ternate, Tidore, and nearby islands have been aggressively cultivated for cloves and other spices for centuries.
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He repeated his orders: the Danshui fortress must be dismantled and all operations moved to Jilong. 21 The new governor complied, except for following missionaries 'advice to preserve a small redoubt that guarded an entrance to Jilong. 22 According to some accounts, Corcuera later exiled him to Ternate for his disobedience. 23 Corcuera sent another letter, ordering that still more forces be withdrawn from Formosa.
hernesheir commented on the word Ternate
It was during his second stay on Ternate that Alfred Russell Wallace first experienced an earthquake. The world of books is full of such trivia.
The Malay Archipelago, Vol. II.
November 21, 2012
chained_bear commented on the word Ternate
"... For the spices they sought grew on only two tiny archipelagoes, each of which is barely larger than a speck on the best modern map. ... No such maps existed in 1500. To locate them among the sixteen thousand or so islands of the archipelago was to find a needle in a haystack.
The northernmost of those specks is the home of the clove, in what is today the province of Malaku, in the easternmost extremity of Indonesia. Each of the five islands of the North Moluccas is little more than a volcanic cone jutting from the water, fringed by a thin strip of habitable land. From the air, they resemble a row of emerald witches' hats set down on the ocean. Ternate, one of the two principal islands, measures little more than six and a half miles across, tapering at the center to a point more than a mile high. In the phrase of the Elizabethan compiler Samuel Purchas, Ternate's volcano of Gamalama is 'angrie with Nature,' announcing its regular eruptions by spitting Cyclopean boulders into the atmosphere to an altitude of 10,000 meters, like the uncorking of a colossal champagne bottle...."
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 28-29
November 28, 2016