Maluku Islands

The Maluku Islands (English: /məˈlkmæˈlk/; Indonesian: Kepulauan Maluku) or the Moluccas (English: /məˈlʌkəz/) are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located east of Sulawesi, west of New Guinea, and north and east of Timor. Lying within Wallacea (mostly east of the biogeographical Weber Line), the Maluku Islands have been considered as a geographical and cultural int…