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Ambon Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (913 words) |
 | Seram, Ambon, and most of Maluku are part of Wallacea, the group of Indonesian islands that are separated by deep water from both the Asian and Australian continents, and have never been linked to the continents by land. |
| Ambon used to be the world center of clove production; until the nineteenth century, the Dutch prohibited the rearing of the clove-tree in all the other islands subject to their rule, in order to secure the monopoly to Ambon. |
| During the Dutch period, Ambon City was the seat of the Dutch resident and military commander of the Moluccas. |
| Ambon (575 words) |
| Ambon island lies close to the south west coast of Ceram in the Molucca Group of islands. |
| Ambon War Cemetery (known locally as the Australian Cemetery) is on the opposite side of the bay to the airport. |
| The town of Ambon, situated on Laitimor Peninsula on the southern shore of Ambon Bay, was severely damaged during the war, first by the Japanese who bombed it heavily in January 1942 and later by the Allied forces who attacked it in 1943 and 1944. |
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