Halmahera
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
But H. bokimekot is different - its DNA indicates that it first arrived on Halmahera from the west - from Asia.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2013
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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