Halmahera
Americannoun
noun
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North Halmahera police chief Erlichson Pasaribu said that retrieval of the bodies, which are located at higher elevations, has been hampered by repeated eruptions, difficult terrain and strong blasts from the volcano.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
The KM Cahaya Arafah had left the seaport on Ternate Island on Monday morning and was heading to West Gane subdistrict in South Halmahera district.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022
In 1858, in Halmahera, Wallace wrote his essay on natural selection and posted it to Darwin.
From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2013
On the remote island of Halmahera, while suffering from a malarial fever, Wallace hit upon the explanation for how species evolve into other species through natural selection.
From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2012
That linguistic relationship confirms, as one would expect from a map, that Austronesian speakers of the New Guinea region arrived by way of Halmahera.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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