ARU ISLANDS

or Aroe Islandsboth: äˈroo, group of about 95 low-lying islands, 3,306 sq mi (8,563 sq km), E Indonesia, in the Moluccas, in the Arafura Sea, SW of New Guinea. The largest island is Tanahbesar; Dobo, the chief port of the group, is on Wamar, just off Tanahbesar. Products include sago, coconuts, tobacco, mother-of-pearl, trepang, tortoiseshell, and bird of paradise plumes. The inhabitants are of a mixed Papuan and Malay stock. The islands were discovered by the Dutch, who colonized them after 1623. Arru is another spelling.

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books on: Aru Islands  - 527 results

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The Memory of Trade: Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island
Book by Patricia Spyer; Duke University Press, 2000
Subjects: Aru Islands (Indonesia)--Commerce--History, Aru Islands (Indonesia)--Social Life And Customs, Economic Anthropology--Indonesia--Aru Islands
...1. Map of the Aru Islands with Mr. Wallaces routes...3. Map of the Aru Islands 18...The linguistic landscape of the Aru Islands is a highly complex one, made...
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Oral Traditions of Anuta: A Polynesian Outlier in the Solomon Islands
Book by Richard Feinberg; Oxford US, 1998
Subjects: Anuta Island (Solomon Islands)--Social Life And Customs, Anuta Language, Ethnology--Solomon Islands--Anuta Island, Folklore--Solomon Islands--Anuta Island, Oral Tradition--Solomon Islands--Anuta Island
...somewhere other than on their islands. Chapter 15 consists of three...take ao ko naatou tamana ne aru ki te topi. Ne va ipo nga ngokai...te rongi ki runga. Ko ia ne aru poki ki te tuungapenu o nopo...Motikitiki ne tuu ake. Ko ia ne aru. Aru ki na topi . Ko naatou...
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An Outcast of the Islands
Book by Joseph Conrad; Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914
Subjects: Fiction
AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS By JOSEPH CONRAD PUES el delito mayor Del hombre...Scandinavian TO EDWARD LANCELOT SANDERSON. AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS. PART I. I. When he stepped off the straight...
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Mammals of the Pacific World
Book by T. D. Carter, J. E. Hill, G. H. H. Tate; Macmillan, 1945
Subjects: Mammals--Australia, Mammals--Islands Of The Pacific, Marine Mammals--Pacific Ocean
...New Guinea and the Aru Islands, the thickened tail...New Guinea and nearby islands; more specialized types...Japan, Waigeu, Aru, and Kei. The size...on New Britain, Aru, and the Gilolo group of islands. In Australia it...
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Primitive Polynesian Economy
Book by Raymond Firth; G. Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1939
Subjects: Economic Anthropology, Tikopia (Solomon Islands People)
...work is hardest. 3 And in the Solomon Islands Protectorate, where the ordinary wage...casual eating. 3 And in the Solomon Islands I have known the "boy" who recklessly...Guinea, in Australia, and in isolated islands such as that described in this book...
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journal articles on: Aru Islands  - 47 results

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A Matter of Balance: An Overview of Pleistocene Occupation History and the Impact of the Last Glacial Phase in East Timor and the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia
Journal article by Sue O'Connor, Ken Aplin; Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 42, 2007
Subjects: Animal remains (Archaeology)--Identification and classification, Archaeological dating--Usage, Aru Islands--Natural history, East Timor--Natural history, Glacial epoch--Environmental aspects, Ice age--Environmental aspects, Last Glacial Maximum--Environmental aspects, Prehistoric archaeology--Research
...Glacial Phase in East Timor and the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia. by Sue...deposits in East Timor and the Aru Islands during the Last Glacial Maximum...Archipelago. Although Timor and the Aru Islands are at similar latitudes, the onset...
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The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia
Journal article by Ian Mcniven; Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 41, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia (Book)--Book reviews
The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia. by Ian McNiven The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, eastern Indonesia Edited by S...program carried out on the remote Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia over three...
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Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History
Journal article by Holger Warnk; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 37, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History (Book)--Book reviews, The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia (Book)--Book reviews
...Index. The archaeology of the Aru Islands, eastern Indonesia. Terra Australis...excavation campaigns carried out on the Aru Islands located in Central Maluku between...history of the spice trade. The Aru islands were part of the Sahul Shelf until...
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Historic Maps and Archaeology as a Means of Understanding Late Precolonial Settlement in the Banda Islands, Indonesia
Journal article by Peter V. Lape; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Archaeology and history--Research, Banda Islands--History, Banda Islands--Research, Banda Islands--Social aspects, Land settlement patterns--Research, Maps, Early--Research, Maps, Early--Social aspects
...The first two seasons of archaeological research in the Aru Islands, Maluku. Cakalele 9(2):63-80. STAHL, A. B. 2001 Making...results of the first seasons excavation of Liang Lemdubu, Aru Islands, Maluku. Paper presented at the Southeast Asian Archaeology...
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Islands as Novelty Sites
Journal article by Godfrey Baldacchino; The Geographical Review, Vol. 97, 2007
Subjects: Island ecology--Evaluation, Islands--Appreciation, Islands--Research, Islands--Social aspects, Sustainable development--Analysis
...study of birds of paradise on the Aru Islands may have appeared to be inconsequential...Consider first the evidence of islands as frontline zones, sites of novelty...David Quammen surveyed Aldabra, Aru, Angel de la Guarda, Galapagos, Guam...
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magazine articles on: Aru Islands  - 5 results

 
 
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"Diversity"
Magazine article by Peter Wood; The American Spectator, Vol. 36, March 2003
Subjects: Culture, Minority & ethnic groups, Multiculturalism & pluralism, Racism
...by Peter Wood On visiting the Aru Islands southwest of New Guinea in March...the cacophony of sunrise on the Aru Islands, it brought to mind the Aviary...includes natural diversity (of the Aru Islands, for example), but it also includes...
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The Fleet That Lived to Fight Another Day
Magazine article by Don Ball; Sea Classics, Vol. 32, July 1999
...March. Next stop was Dobo in the Aru Islands 100 miles off New Guinea. Here, the...landing at Makassar in the Celebes Islands. It consisted of US heavy cruiser...lines, passing Malacaban and Verde Islands, then Cebu and Mindanao. Leaving...
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Amazing Architects of the Avian World
Magazine article by Dwight G. Smith; World and I, Vol. 16, December 2001
Subjects: Australia--Natural history, Bowerbirds--Behavior, Papua New Guinea--Natural history
...and sing above a chosen display area that may or may not be partially cleared. Found in eastern Australia and the Aru Islands of New Guinea, they are mostly dull-colored birds that feed on fruits and beetles of the canopy and understory and rarely...
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Collecting Nature
Magazine article; American Scholar, Vol. 67, Spring 1998
Subjects: Collectors (Persons)--Personal narratives, Collectors and collecting--Personal narratives
...were so wet and windy that there was no going out," wrote Alfred Russel Wallace in 1869, about a collecting trip to the Aru Islands north of Australia: But on the succeeding one the sun shone brightly, and I had the good fortune to capture one...
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Urbanism: An Ideas Competition in Saemangeum in South Korea Has Seen Florian Beigel's Ideas Expressed on an Epic Scale
Magazine article by Kieran Long; The Architectural Review, Vol. 225, June 2009
Subjects: Estuaries--Design and construction, Land reclamation, Reclamation of land
...Architecture Research Unit (ARU) at London Metropolitan University...proposal envisages a city of islands that combines a self-consciously...enormity then became apparent. ARU partner Philip Christou says...early on to make a series of islands, creating maximum water frontage...


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newspaper articles on: Aru Islands  - 8 results

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Dying Shame
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 8, 1996
...your theories. To document rare species in their habitat you simply have to travel to Madagascar and the Galapagos and Aru Islands and all floating points between, and it is clear the author loves his assignment. Quammen is the latest in a rapidly...
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Green Light for Radike Swoop
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), May 28, 2004
...Fiji in the forthcoming Pacific Islands tournament. However, man-of...him up for Australia and the ARU acting chief executive Matt Carroll...always of the understanding the ARU would not pick Radike if he chose...This was stated to us by the ARU four to five weeks ago."
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Walk on Wild Side in Borneo
Newspaper article by Valerie Tamis; The Washington Times, October 13, 1996
Subjects: Borneo
...and view wildlife on the islands northern tip. I relish...the Shangri-la Tanjung Aru Resort, a five-star, 23-acre...of Lake Tahoe, Tanjung Aru is an ideal way station...a hands-on look at the islands flora and fauna, but his...at Shangri-la Tanjung Aru Resort in Kota Kinabalu...
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Watch out for Welsh, Warn Aussie Aces Ahead of Tour
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 4, 2007
Subjects: World Cup (Cricket)
...Wallabies lose, they have a ready excuse. "The real reason the ARU is trying to spin its way out of this debacle is that it is...international teams desperate for games, such as Argentina, the Pacific Islands or Japan. "Dismal crowds for the Wales Tests will prove that...
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The 'Wild' Island; Orangutans Steal Show in Tropical Borneo
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 17, 2004
...the most remarkable collections of plants in the world. A day later, we are snorkeling on coral reefs by islands just off the Tanjung Aru Resort. We see dozens of tropical fish species - from moray eels to clown fish - and coral formations from...
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encyclopedia articles on: Aru Islands  - 5 results

 
 
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Aru Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARU ISLANDS or Aroe Islands both: a roo, group of about 95 low-lying islands, 3,306 sq mi (8,563 sq km), E Indonesia, in the Moluccas , in the Arafura Sea, SW of New Guinea. The largest island is Tanahbesar; Dobo, the chief port of the group...
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Arru Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARRU ISLANDS see Aru Islands , Indonesia. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Aroe Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AROE ISLANDS see Aru Islands , Indonesia. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Tanimbar Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Islands tenim bar, t , group of about 30 islands, c.2,100 sq mi (5,440 sq km), E Indonesia, in the Banda Sea, between the Aru Islands and Timor, in the Moluccas. The largest of the group is Yamdena. Saumlaki is the chief town. Important products are...
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Moluccas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ambon island. The groups many islands include Halmahera (the largest...Ternate , and Tidore and the Aru and Kai island groups. Of...Sago is the staple food. The islands were visited by the Portuguese...British gained a foothold in the islands, which passed definitively to...


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