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Ternate

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Ternate

Volcanic island of the Maluku group, Indonesia; area 106 sq km/41 sq mi; population (1975 est) 20,000. The island is densely forested, and exports timber. Ternate contains the triple-crater Gama Gama volcano (1,715 m/5,627 ft). The island was an important centre of clove production in Portuguese and later Dutch colonial times, but nutmeg and copra are now the most important products. Ternate was the first part of the Maluku (Moluccas) group to accept the Islamic faith.



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With favoring winds it is wafted past the site of the fabulous islands of Atlantis and the Hesperides, makes the periplus of Hanno, and, floating by Ternate and Tidore and the mouth of the Persian Gulf, melts in the tropic gales of the Indian seas, and is landed in ports of which Alexander only heard the names.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
As when farr off at Sea a Fleet descri'd Hangs in the Clouds, by AEQUINOCTIAL Winds Close sailing from BENGALA, or the Iles Of TERNATE and TIDORE, whence Merchants bring Thir spicie Drugs: they on the trading Flood Through the wide ETHIOPIAN to the Cape Ply stemming nightly toward the Pole.
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