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• The Maluku Islands or the Moluccas (/məˈlʌkəz/) are an archipelago within Banda
Sea, Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the
Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located east of Sulawesi, west of
New Guinea, and north and east of Timor.
• The islands were known as the Spice Islands due to the nutmeg, mace and cloves
that were originally exclusively found there, the presence of which sparked colonial
interest from Europe in the 16th century.[1]
• The Maluku Islands formed a single province from Indonesian independence until
1999, when it was split into two provinces. A new province, North Maluku, incorporates
the area between Morotai and Sula, with the arc of islands from Buru and Seram to
Wetar remaining within the existing Maluku Province. North Maluku is predominantly
Muslim, and its capital is Sofifi on Halmahera island. Maluku province has a larger
Christian population, and its capital is Ambon. Though originally Melanesian,[2] many
island populations, especially in the Banda Islands, were exterminated in the 17th
century during the spice wars. A second influx of Austronesian immigrants began in the
early twentieth century under the Dutch and continues in the Indonesian era.
• Between 1999 and 2002, conflict between Muslims and Christians killed thousands
and displaced half a million people.
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• The Lesser Sunda Islands consist of two geologically distinct archipelagos.[3] The northern
archipelago, which includes Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores and Wetar, is volcanic in origin. A
number of these volcanoes, like Mount Rinjani on Lombok, are still active while others, such as
Kelimutu on Flores with its three multi-coloured crater lakes, are extinct. The northern
archipelago began to be formed during the Pliocene, about 15 million years ago, as a result of
the collision between the Australian and the Asian plates.[3] The islands of the southern
archipelago, including Sumba, Timor and Babar, are non-volcanic and appear to belong to the
Australian plate.[4] The geology and ecology of the northern archipelago share a similar history,
characteristics and processes with the southern Maluku Islands, which continue the same island
arc to the east.
• There is a long history of geological study of these regions since Indonesian colonial times;
however, the geological formation and progression is not fully understood, and theories of the
geological evolution of the islands changed extensively during the last decades of the 20th
century.[5]
• Lying at the collision of two tectonic plates, the Lesser Sunda Islands comprise some of the
most geologically complex and active regions in the world.[5]
• There are a number of volcanoes located on the Lesser Sunda Islands.[
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