Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Moluccas 1930s


Banda Bay, Moluccas


Anchorage, Banda

Batjan Roads, North Moluccas


Ambon, Moluccas









These photographs were taken by a traveler who made many trips to Asia in the years before the Second World War. It was a time when most travel was by steamship. For the more remote Spice Islands, then part of the Netherlands East Indies, such travel would typically have been on a tramp steamer or freighter, such as those you see in the pictures.


(Click on the pictures to enlarge them.)

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