Watubela archipelago
Watubela is an archipelago in the Maluku Islands, east of Ceram and north of Kai Islands, southeast of the Gorong archipelago, and southwest of the Bomberai Peninsula of Papua, Indonesia. It includes the islands of Watubela itself, Kesui (also called Kasiui) and Teor (also called Tio'or).[1] The islands now form two separate districts (kecamatan) within the East Seram Regency of Maluku. Wakate District includes Watubela and Kesui Islands, with a number of smaller islands; Teor District consists of the island of the same name.
 Watubela archipelago in the east of Maluku Islands | |
 Watubela archipelago (red) in eastern Indonesia | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Southeast Asia |
| Archipelago | Maluku Islands |
| Major islands | Watubela, Kesui, Teor, Bam, Uta |
| Administration | |
| Province | Maluku |
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The English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace described the islands, which he called the Matabello Islands, in chapter 25 of his 1869 book The Malay Archipelago.[2]
References
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- Wallace, Alfred Russel (1869). "25: Ceram, Goram, and the Matabello Islands". The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with sketches of man and nature (1 ed.). Macmillan.
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