Pinto also says one was named leader of the Malays remaining in the Moluccas Islands after the Portuguese conquest in 1511.

After the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan, the Castilians claimed the recently discovered Moluccas Islands.

It was based upon intelligence the CIA had been able to gather from its Indonesian sources, who believed Hashim Nidal's base of operations was on one of the Moluccas Islands, formerly known as the Spice Islands.

This helped survivors make a poignant return to the Moluccas Islands of Ambon and Haruku in Indonesia.

Due to the massive destruction of coral reefs in Southeast Asia, the LMMA has established two areas in Eastern Indonesia: Padaido Islands, Biak, West Papua, and Southern Ambon Island and the Moluccas Islands; and various areas in the Philippines.

Among them were a ruler from the Moluccas Islands who were defeated by his enemies, a ruler of Rokan and a ruler named Tuan Telanai from Terengganu.

Patras was nominated to the Council of Justice in 1700, and in 1703, he went to work as under-secretary (onderkoopman) for the Governor of the Moluccas Islands.

On 16 March 1521 (Spanish calendar), Magellan sighted the mountains of what is now Samar while on a mission to find a westward route to the Moluccas Islands for Spain.

St Francis Xavier was the saint who had approached closest to Australia, his travels having taken him to Amboina in the Moluccas Islands which lie just off the western tip of New Guinea - and that was 200 years before Captain James Cook charted the east coast of Australia.