Sulawesi
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- proper noun
- Geraint-Vincent: The sun is setting on a seaside town on the island of Sulawesi.
- the island of Sulawesi
- the highlands of Sulawesi
- Sulawesi, Indonesia
Examples
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We're in North Sulawesi.
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And Sulawesi, the only island east of Wallace's Line that harbors a native placental mammalian carnivore, lacks small monitors.
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Lower right: Water buffalo grazing in front of a Christian church in Sulawesi.
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Several universities on the islands of Sulawesi and Sumatra are slowly expanding access.
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A World Bank irrigation project in Sulawesi, Indonesia, illustrates this well.
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Tonah Toraja in Sulawesi is Christian, and Bali is Hindu.
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Yet the impact of such production methods in particular areas, such as West Africa and the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, can be substantial, and where clearing targets forests that harbor endemic species, the threat to biodiversity can be great.
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Among the works are 81 paintings of vessels, from modern ocean liners to dugout canoes to the ships of Makassan traders from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, suggesting a long, complex history of contact with the outside world.
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TravelQuest's preferred location on Sulawesi benefits from the lower cloud cover in the eastern part of the archipelago.
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My first destination in Sulawesi was the tiny island of Bunaken, about five miles off Sulawesi's northeast tip.
Synonyms
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A mountainous island in eastern Indonesia also called Sulawesi
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sulawesi likely comes from local words sula and wesi, where 'sula' means 'island' and 'wesi' means 'iron'. A helpful way to remember Sulawesi is as 'the iron island', which fits its large, rugged mountains and wild nature.