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The largest and most perfectly conical mountain is Tidore, which is over four thousand Feet high — Ternate being very nearly the same height, but with a more rounded and irregular summit.
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Besides having become hispanicized, and an ally of this crown, he has retired to his fort in Tidore, which is a more important one than those I hold, and he is obeyed by the people in general, with more than two thousand chiefs.
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Majesty pays a stipend to all the citizens and inhabitants of the fortified town which you hold in the island of Tidore, which is one of the Malucas Islands.
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The largest and most perfectly conical mountain is Tidore, which is over four thousand Feet high -- Ternate being very nearly the same height, but with
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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As I approached the Moluccan island of Tidore last July, its majestic volcano was crowned by thin clouds.
Periscope 2008
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The world's largest bee-the rare, 4-cm Wallace's giant bee Chalocodoma pluto-is also found on Bacan, Tidore, and Halmahera.
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The rich volcanic soils of Ternate, Tidore, and nearby islands have been aggressively cultivated for cloves and other spices for centuries.
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If he be rich, he is the man, a fine man, and a proper man, she will go to Jacaktres or Tidore with him; Galesimus de monte aureo.
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The sultans of Ternate and Tidore were once celebrated through the East for their power and regal magnificence.
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Tidore, and every year have to pay a small tribute of Paradise birds, tortoiseshell, or sago.
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"... A mile across the water stands Tidore, Ternate's twin and historic rival, like Ternate a near-perfect volcanic cone, barely ten miles long, its altitude a mere nine meters less: 1,721 meters to Ternate's 1,730. From the summit it is possible to see the other three North Moluccan islands, marching off in a line to the south: Moti, Makian, and Bacan beyond. Together they represent a few dozen square miles in millions of miles of islands and ocean. At the start of the sixteenth century and for millennia beforehand, they were the source of each and every clove consumed on Earth."
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 29.
November 28, 2016