Ambon

Of the clashes as to the number of Indonesian victims the bloodiest are Coen's massacre on Banda (1621-10,000 dead), the Amboina Wars (1624-1660-25,000), the struggle for Batavia (1628-1629-20,000), the Java War (1825-1830-200,000), the Bali invasion of 1849 (10,000), the Aceh War (from 1873 on--70,000) and the Independence War/Civil War (1945-1949-300,000).

to the very experienced and able Ferdinand Dejean, recently famous town-surgeon of Batavia, with an accurate description of the Amboina's Lizard, etc.

That the peninsula or cape of Cattigara did not extend south of the Equator was demonstrated by Antonio de Abreu and Francisco Serrao in 1511-1512 when they were able to make the voyage from Malacca to Amboina and the Moluccas by sailing across open sea--the South China Sea and Java Sea--in the area where it was shown to be by Martellus and Behaim.

Amboina, Tidor, and Ternate, (the "legendary" Spice Islands)

[119] For example, on 16 January the 2nd Carrier Division, with one heavy cruiser and two destroyers, was sent into the Banda Sea to spearhead the assault against Amboina, while Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondos force of two battleships, three heavy cruisers, and six destroyers patrolled an outer ring well to the rear, between Mindanao, Palau, and northern New Guinea.

Achtste bijdrage tot de kennis der vischfauna van Amboina. Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neerlandicae 2: 1-102.