Peleng is an island off the east coast of
Sulawesi
Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...
,
Indonesia
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and is the largest island of the
Banggai Islands (''Kepulauan Banggai''). It is surrounded by the
Banda Sea and
Molucca Sea and has an area of 2,406 kmĀ².
Some of the smaller islands surrounding Peleng of the Banggai Islands group are
Banggai Island,
Bowokan,
Labobo,
Kebongan,
Kotudan,
Tropettenando,
Timpau,
Salue Besar,
Salue Kecil,
Masepe, and
Bangkulu.
In January 2020 a paper published in the journal
Science
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Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...
documented the discovery of 10 new songbird species and subspecies, nine of them found in Peleng.
[A lost world in Wallacea: Description of a montane archipelagic avifauna, Frank E. Rheindt1, Dewi M. Prawiradilaga, Hidayat Ashari, Suparno, Chyi Yin Gwee1, Geraldine W. X. Lee1, Meng Yue Wu1, Nathaniel S. R. Ng, Science 10 Jan 2020. Vol. 367, Issue 6474, pp. 167-170,DOI: 10.1126/science.aax2146, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax2146]
Inhabitation
The majority of people on this Peleng Island make their living planting
coconut
The coconut tree (''Cocos nucifera'') is a member of the palm tree family ( Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus ''Cocos''. The term "coconut" (or the archaic "cocoanut") can refer to the whole coconut palm, the seed, or the ...
s,
sweet potato
The sweet potato or sweetpotato (''Ipomoea batatas'') is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the Convolvulus, bindweed or morning glory family (biology), family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a r ...
es, or
fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment, but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. Fishing techniques inclu ...
.
There are five district capitals on the island being Bulagi, Tataba, Liang, Salakan and Sambiut. The island's largest towns are
Basiano and
Bonganang.
List of towns
* Basiano
* Bongangang
* Bulagi
* Lolantang
* Lukpenenteng
* Luksagu
* Pelei
* Mumulusan
* Salakan
See also
*
Peleng tarsier
References
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Banggai Islands Regency
Landforms of Central Sulawesi
Islands of Sulawesi