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Batudaka
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Etymology
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Proper noun
en island of the archipelago:suf/Togian in the province:pref/Central Sulawesi c/Indonesia.
en 2020-01-09 Karen Weintraub Trove of New Bird Species Found on Remote Indonesian Islands w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/science/birds-new-species-indonesia.html The Indonesian islands of Taliabu, Peleng and Batudaka are in a region named Wallacea, after Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th-century naturalist who developed a theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin’s. https://web.archive.org/web/20241024035228/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/science/birds-new-species-indonesia.html 24 October 2024