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9 unusual facts about Timor


1991 Kalabahi earthquakes

Striking the sea adjacent to Timor, the 1991 Kalabahi earthquakes left twenty three people dead and injured 181.

Rosa Bonaparte

Rosa Bonaparte (died December 1975) was a Timorese politician and independence and women's rights activist.

Timeline of the 2009–10 Australian region cyclone season

:*0600 UTC – TCWC Perth reports that Tropical Low 06U has formed south of Timor

Timor-Leste at the 2002 Asian Games

De Araújo was the first East Timorese at the Olympics, he represented East Timor in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the same weight class.

Martinho de Araújo was the sole competitor for East Timor in weightlifting, competing in the bantamweight class.

Timor-Leste at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Augusto Ramos Soares represented East Timor at the London Games as the nation's only male track runner.

Juventina Napoleão represented East Timor at the London Olympics as its only female track athlete.

She finished the race in 3:05:07, placing 106th out of the 107th athletes; she finished ahead of Caitriona Jennings of Ireland (3:22:11) and behind Ni Lar San of Myanmar (3:04:27).

The East Timorese athlete finished the competition in 2:45:09 and placed 84th out of the 85 finishing competitors, displacing Tsepo Ramonene of Lesotho (2:55:54) but falling behind Juan Carlos Cardona of Colombia (2:40:13).


41st Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment

These roles have included providing soldiers to the serve with INTERFET in East Timor and with the Peace Monitoring Groups in Bougainville.

Alberto Ricardo da Silva

On 5 December 2005, he wrote to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to reiterate the importance of justice to the people East Timor.

Amanuban

In 1959 a new administrative region (Daerah Tingkat II), Timor Tengah Selatan was formed, and included the old swaprajas Mollo, Amanuban and Amanatun.

Asia Security Conference

18 countries represented at the ministerial-level: Korea, Australia, Cambodia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Astute

Operation Astute, an Australian military operation in response to the 2006 East Timor crisis

Castalius rosimon

In the Indonesian archipelago the butterfly occurs in NE Sumatra, East Java, Bali, Bangka, Timor, Wetar, Kissar, Sumbawa and Sulawesi.

Chris Nyst

He is a senior member of the International Commission of Jurists and was a special adviser to the UN investigation into human rights violations in East Timor.

Committee for Preparatory Work for Indonesian Independence

Muhammad Yamin advocated the new nation state should not only include all the territories of the Dutch East Indies, but also include Sarawak, Sabah, Malaya, and Portuguese Timor.

Dilli

Dili, also spelled Díli, is the capital and largest city of East Timor.

Emílio da Silva

Emilio Ribeiro Neves da Silva, known simply as Emílio da Silva; born 5 April 1982 in Dili, Timor Timur, Indonesia, is a footballer from East Timor who has represented AD Esperança since 2004.

Eucalyptus urophylla

Eucalyptus urophylla is a species of Eucalypt native to islands of the Indonesian Archipelago and Timor.

Eurico Guterres

Elsham leader Aloysius Renwarin reported Guterres already had 200 members consisting of Indonesian expatriates from Maluku, Timor and Sulawesi in December 2003 when Guterres confidently requested the local government to provide his organisation offices in Timika, Papua.

FDTL

the Timor Leste Defence Force (Forças de Defesa de Timor Leste), the armed forces of Timor-Leste

Fenton Airfield

Reconnaissance flights were flown over Timor Island, New Guinea and Celebres Islands, and attacks and armed reconnaissance missions were carried out against Japanese airfields, ground installations and shipping.

Gajah Mada

Gajah Mada retained his position as mahapatih (Prime Minister) under the new king and continued his military campaign by expanding eastward into Logajah, Gurun, Seram, Hutankadali, Sasak, Buton, Banggai, Kunir, Galiyan, Salayar, Sumba, Muar (Saparua), Solor, Bima, Wandan (Banda), Ambon, Timor, and Dompo.

Gaspar da Costa

In 1735 a Topass army seriously threatened Kupang, and in 1746-49 the Topasses intervened on the Island of Roti, a Dutch dependency close to Timor.

Human rights in Indonesia

In the United States, the US Senate had since early 2001 been rejecting repeated efforts by the Bush administration to have US funding of the Indonesian military resumed, a ban which had been reluctantly imposed by the Clinton administration after TNI officers were filmed coordinating the Dili Scorched Earth campaign.

Jill Jolliffe

Educated at Geelong High School and Monash University, she visited East Timor with a student delegation in April 1975 while doing postgraduate work at the Australian National University.

Joe Szwaja

In November 1999, Szwaja received the Human Rights Award from the Seattle chapter of the United Nations Association for his work helping war victims in East Timor.

Kalumburu, Western Australia

On 27 September 1943, the base and settlement were attacked by 21 Japanese Kawasaki Ki-48 bombers, based at Kupang, Timor, with a fighter escort.

Kisar

The highest of these, Gunung Taitulu, rises approximately 300 m above sea level, and from the top, nearby Wetar and Timor are easily seen.

Lautoka

Captain William Bligh spotted and roughly charted the coasts of Lautoka while making his epic voyage to Timor, in the wake of the Mutiny on the Bounty in which he and a few sailors loyal to him were thrown overboard and cast adrift on a life boat.

Lene Hara cave

The cave was discovered to science in the early 1960s and first investigated in 1963 by Portuguese anthropologist, Antonio de Almeida when Timor Leste was under Portuguese rule.

Mutisalah

The term mutisalah refers to heirloom beads in the Indonesian islands of Timor, Flores, Sumba and Suwa (known today as Nusa Tenggara Timur).

Naked-rumped pouched bat

India and Sri Lanka through South-East Asia to Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Timor (Indonesia); New Guinea; North-Eeast Queensland (Australia); Guadalcanal island (Solomon Islands).

Navasota persectella

It was described by Hampson in 1918, and is known from Timor (including Dili, the type location).

No. 381 Expeditionary Combat Support Squadron RAAF

To date 381ECSS has assisted in Operations Warden/Stabilize (East Timor), Gold (Sydney Olympics), Relex (bare base activation to support maritime interdiction operations), Gaberdine (Immigration Support), Guardian (CHOGM Support), Slipper (Global War on Terrorism), Bastille and Falconer (Iraq War).

Non timor domini, non timor malus

Non timor domini, non timor malus is the second studio album by the Italian Black ambient/Gothic rock band Militia Christi.

Norman Day

(Melbourne), RMIT International University, Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City) and Can Tho University Learning Resource Center (Can Tho City, Vietnam) and Embassy for East Timor (Canberra).

Portuguese Indonesian

Through their military skills they were able to dominate large parts of Timor, with their center in Lifau in the present-day Oecussi-Ambeno enclave.

Prince Kuni Asaakira

Prince Kuni was promoted to rear admiral on 1 November 1942, and was given personnel of the Southwest Area Fleet (5 October 1942) the Japanese occupation of Timor in the Pacific War.

Proposed Japanese invasion of Australia during World War II

This party consisted of four Japanese officers on board a small fishing boat and it investigated the York Sound region for a day and a night before returning to Kupang in Timor on 20 January.

Rodney Cocks

While on leave from the East Timor peacekeeping force, Cocks was holidaying in Kuta, Bali, at the time of the 2002 bombings that killed 202 people.

Sahul

Sahul Shelf, part of the continental shelf off the northern Australian coast, under the Arafura Sea and the Timor Sea

Salomon Müller

Beginning in October 1828, he remained at the port city of Kupang, penetrating the interior of Timor during the following year.

Santa Cruz massacre

A number of foreigners had come to East Timor to observe the Portuguese delegation, including independent US journalists Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn, and British cameraman Max Stahl.

SY4307A

Two SY4307As were used, wired in parallel, as the output stage, or "final", in a transmitter constructed clandestinely by the Australian soldiers of Sparrow Force in Japanese occupied Portuguese Timor in 1942.

Timor mortis conturbat me

As in William Dunbar's Lament for the Makars, the phrase Timor mortis conturbat me completes each stanza of the dirge; it is noted that Eddison was a scholar of medieval poetry.

Timor Pony

In addition to the Timor pony, there are eight other breeds native to the islands that make up Indonesia, the Batak Pony, Gayoe, Deli pony, Bali Pony, Java Pony, and three breeds so closely related that there is debate over whether they are one, two or three, the "Sumba and Sumbawa Pony" and the closely related Sandalwood Pony.

Sixty Timor Ponies that were imported into Australia formed the foundation of the Coffin Bay Pony breed that was developed in South Australia.

Yenny Wahid

Greg Barton in The Australian credits her with having played a crucial role in persuading her father of "the extent of military-backed militia violence in East Timor ... and the culpability of the Indonesian military leadership".

Zebra Finch

Taeniopygia guttata guttata, the Timor Zebra Finch, extends from Lombok in the Lesser Sunda Islands or Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia to Sermata, in addition to coastal areas around the continent of Australia.


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