currents flowing northward towards the Aldabra archipelago from the east coast of Madagascar would have provided means for the colonization of western I...
The shores of eastern Asia, extending from western Pakistan to eastern Siberia and including a large part of the Indonesian archipelago, follow largely the tectonically active zones where the Pacific...
Hindu soverignty and Hindu culture dominated almost all the lands and islands, which constitute the Indian Archipelago. It is not the purpose of the present writer to attempt anything like a history of the art of navigation in ancient...
The spice trade was one of the world's ancient commercial activities. The Indonesian Archipelago (Nusantara), as a spice producer, was crucial in this trade network. The emergence of big ports as the main trade harbours marks the peak...
This article examines the connection between geographical conceptions of the Bombay archipelago and the uniting of the islands through land reclamation...
From the mid-seventeenth century until the late 1700s, Southern Africa and the Malay-Indonesian archipelago were connected as important hubs within Dutch EastIndia Company (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie; VOC) networks. During thi...
However, the Dutch EastIndia Company (VOC) was also aggressively expanding throughout the Indonesian archipelago, and had located its headquarters on t...
clashes with China's new assertiveness on her own claims in the South China Sea, mainly in the Paracels but also including other archipelagoes and marit...