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Maluku Islands
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Maluku Islands
The
Maluku Islands
or the
Moluccas
are an
archipelago
within
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 also the historical core of the
Spice Islands
known to the
Chinese
and
Europeans
, but this term usually included other adjacent areas such as
Sulawesi
.
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