Sanana Island

Sanana
Geography
Location	Southeast Asia
Coordinates	2.2°S 125.91667°E
Archipelago	Maluku Islands
Area	532.3 km2 (205.5 sq mi)
Administration
	Indonesia
Largest settlement	Sanana
Demographics
Population	48,892 (2010 Census)
Pop. density	91.85/km2 (237.89/sq mi)

Sanana or Sula Besi Island (earlier name Xulla Besi[1]) is an island south of Mangole Island, and part of Sula Islands Regency in the North Maluku province of Indonesia. Sanana is also the name of that island's largest settlement, home to the Dutch era fort Benteng De Verwachting.[2][3]

Districts

The island is divided into six districts within the Sula Islands Regency, which are set out below with their reas and the populations at the 2010 Census.[4]

Name	English name	Area in km²	Population Census 2010
Sanana Utara	North Sanana	75.28	5,675
Sanana	Sanama town	83.36	25,183
Sula Besi Tengah	Central Sula Besi	74.73	5,929
Sula Besi Timur	East Sula Besi	82.18	3,100
Sula Besi Selatan	South Sula Besi	88.49	4,298
Sula Besi Barat	West Sula Besi	128.26	4,707
Sula Besi Island	(total)	532.30	48,892

Transportation

Sanana airport is linked to Ambon by Trigana Air Service flights.[5]

History

As was common throughout Maluku at that time, Sanana suffered serious religio-ethnic tensions between Muslims and Christians during 1999.[6]

Flora and fauna

Frog Callulops kopsteini, also known as Kopstein's callulops frog, is only known from Sanuna Island.[7]

Gallery

Men and children on the beach (1930–1936)
Fort de Verwachtingh in 1921

References

Goodall, George (Editor)(1943) Philips' International Atlas London, George Philip and Son map 'East Indies' pp. 91–92
Lonely Planet; Ryan Ver Berkmoes; Celeste Brash; Muhammad Cohen; Mark Elliott; Guyan Mitra; John Noble; Adam Skolnick; Iain Stewart; Steve Waters (2010). Lonely Planet Indonesia. Lonely Planet Publications. p. 741. ISBN 978-1-74104-830-8.
Photo of Sanana's fort before 1920
Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011.
"Trigana Air Service". Trigana-air.com. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
"Ambon rioting leaves 100 dead in Indonesia". World Socialist Website. 30 January 1999.
Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Callulops kopsteini (Mertens, 1930)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 25 June 2019.

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[1] Goodall, George (Editor)(1943) Philips' International Atlas London, George Philip and Son map 'East Indies' pp. 91–92

[2] Lonely Planet; Ryan Ver Berkmoes; Celeste Brash; Muhammad Cohen; Mark Elliott; Guyan Mitra; John Noble; Adam Skolnick; Iain Stewart; Steve Waters (2010). Lonely Planet Indonesia. Lonely Planet Publications. p. 741. ISBN 978-1-74104-830-8.

[3] Photo of Sanana's fort before 1920

[4] Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011.

[5] "Trigana Air Service". Trigana-air.com. Retrieved 1 December 2013.

[tension-6] "Ambon rioting leaves 100 dead in Indonesia". World Socialist Website. 30 January 1999.

[7] Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Callulops kopsteini (Mertens, 1930)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 25 June 2019.