Sanana or Sulabesi Island (earlier name Xulla Besi) is an island south of Mangoli Island, and is part of the

Sula Islands Regency The Sula Islands Regency ( id, Kabupaten Kepulauan Sula) is one of the list of regencies and cities of Indonesia, regencies in North Maluku province of Indonesia. It covers a land area of 3,338.67 km2 and consists of two of the three large islands ...

in the

North Maluku North Maluku ( id, Maluku Utara) is a province of Indonesia. It covers the northern part of the Maluku Islands, bordering the Pacific Ocean to the north, the Halmahera Sea to the east, the Molucca Sea to the west, and the Seram Sea to the south. ...

province of

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

. Sanana is also the name of that island's largest settlement, home to the Dutch era fort Benteng De Verwachting.

Administrative Districts

The island is divided into six districts within the

, which are set out below with their areas and the populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census. The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, and the number of villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district.

Transportation

Sanana airport is linked to

Ambon Ambon may refer to: Places * Ambon Island, an island in Indonesia ** Ambon, Maluku, a city on Ambon Island, the capital of Maluku province ** Governorate of Ambon, a colony of the Dutch East India Company from 1605 to 1796 * Ambon, Morbihan, a c ...

Trigana Air Service Trigana Air (registered as Trigana Air Service) is an airline based in Jakarta, Indonesia. History The company commenced operations in early 1991 with two Beechcraft King Air 200 fixed-wing aircraft, and by the end of that year had added two l ...

flights.

History

As was common throughout Maluku at that time, Sanana suffered serious religio-ethnic tensions between

Muslims Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abraha ...

and

Christians Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...

during 1999.

Flora and fauna

Frog '' Callulops kopsteini'', also known as Kopstein's callulops frog, is endemic to Sanana Island.

Gallery

File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Een groep mannen en kinderen op het strand aan een baai van het eiland Sanana TMnr 60033417.jpg, Men and children on the beach (1930–1936) File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Fort te Sanana Soela-eilanden. TMnr 60008336.jpg, in 1921

References

Landforms of North Maluku Islands of the Maluku Islands {{NMaluku-geo-stub