Celebes
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“This is not sexist,” said Rear Admiral Ronnie Gil Gavan, who came up with the idea of the unit in 2018 after leading anti-piracy operations in the Celebes Sea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2021
The men had set off on 21 December with other fishermen aboard a purse seiner from General Santos, a southern Philippine port facing the Celebes Sea.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2017
In the strait some isolated islands persisted, like Celebes, Timor and Flores, and organisms evolved even more peculiar adaptations to survive there.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 9, 2013
The Zoo has a spotted leopard, a black leopard, two Celebes macaques, and one brown bear in quarantine from the farm.
From Reuters ● Jan. 31, 2012
Did they proceed to overrun that island, just as they had already overrun the big mountainous islands of Celebes, Borneo, Java, and Sumatra?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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