Lucipara Islands

Coordinates: 5°29′39″S 127°32′32″E / 5.4943°S 127.5423°E / -5.4943; 127.5423 Lucipara Islands is about 50 km west of Penyu Islands, both of which are belong to Molucca Islands. They are directly south of Manipa Strait (Selat Manipa) near Ceram.

Edmund Roberts visited the islands briefly in the 19th century. He called them Lucepara in his 1832 journal.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Roberts, Edmund (1837). Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat. New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 48.


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