Seram and Ambon Islands (Operational Navigation Chart, 1967) Not for navigational use
View from a boat towards Tulehu, on the North Seram coast
Seram (formerly Ceram, also called Seran or Serang) is an island in the MalukuIndonesia. It is located north of Ambon Island. The chief port/town is Masohi.
Size: approx. 340 km (210 mi) long and 60 km (40 mi) wide
Highest point: Mt. Binaiyi, 3,019 m (9,905 ft)
Seram is traversed by a central mountain range. The interior has dense rain forests and is largely unexplored. Copra, resin, sago, and fish are important products. Oil is exploited in the northeast near Bula.
It is from a very large group of animals and birds ordered from the Meissen factory for the porcelain menagerie that Augustus planned for the upper floor of the 'Japanese Palace' at Dresden.
This comprehensive addition to the VandA website contains 60 videos and transcripts about ten selected objects from the Museum's 20th century ceramics collection.
Six people from the world of ceramics talk about each of the ten pots, giving a range of fascinating insights into a number of different pieces.
Ceramics can be defined as inorganic, non-metallic materials that are typically produced using clays and other minerals from the earth or chemically processed powders.
Ceramics are typically crystalline in nature and are compounds formed between metallic and non-metallic elements such as aluminium and oxygen (alumina- Al), silicon and nitrogen (silicon nitride- Si) and silicon and carbon (silicon carbide-SiC).
Ceramic, or high-temperature superconductors are now being developed for commercial applications and appear to be a sure bet to enter more commercial markets over the next few years.
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