Moluccas

[ muh-luhk-uhz ]

plural noun

1. a group of islands in Indonesia, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. About 30,000 sq. mi. (78,000 sq. km).

Moluccas

/ məʊˈlʌkəz; mə- /

plural noun

1. a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 1 990 598 (2000). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles) Indonesian nameMaluku Former nameSpice Islands

Other Words From

• Mo·luccan adjective noun

Example Sentences

I watched Muslims and Christians tearing each other apart in the Moluccas.

From BBC

The dried, ground spice found in most kitchen cabinets begins as the seed of the Myristica fragrans tree, indigenous to the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, of Indonesia.

From Salon

Bagging spices in the Moluccas, encountering killer crabs, courteous kings and deadly shoals, he crossed the Indian Ocean, rounded the Cape of Good Hope and sailed into Plymouth Harbor after a voyage of nearly three years, the first captain to circumnavigate the globe and return alive.

From New York Times

“The local disaster mitigation agency in Ternate has also said that the people who were staying away from beaches started returning to their homes this morning,” he said in a statement, adding that calm had returned to the city of Bitung on Sulawesi island and in the Halmahera district in the Moluccas.

From Reuters

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake had struck the Moluccas in July, killing at least four people.

From Reuters