How Good Is Your Geographic? [5]

[anfield5]

Maluku Islands in Indonesia

[Grundo Farb]

Maluku Islands in Indonesia

That's the group of Islands that were traded but there were two original islands (both starting with T) one held by the Portuguese and One by the Spanish.

BIG clues.

[anfield5]

I know one island in the group is called Tanimbar

[Rollo]

Maluku Islands in Indonesia

Meka leka hi, meka hiney ho?

Malakas Hellas (μαλάκας Ελλάς)?

[Grundo Farb]

So, no-one here has the answer? Another day and I will give the answer and ask a different question if this is too hard.

[anfield5]

Trinidad and Tobago

[Grundo Farb]

Trinidad and Tobago

No, but you did get the malukku islands. So I guess you are the winner.

Funny, nobody knows Tidore and Ternati. These two islands were the powerbase of the spice trade and source of conflict between Portugal, Spain, England and the Dutch. The group of islands were the only place in the world that cloves, mace and nutmeg came from. Such was their value, the Dutch traded New Amsterdam for these islands of the British but the british had already transferred most of the trees off the islands and shipped them to India.

So Anfield5 I guess it's you...

[Rollo]

The group of islands were the only place in the world that cloves, mace and nutmeg came from

Oh... is it Britain then?

Cloves


Mace


Nutmeg!!!

[Grundo Farb]

I like it.

[anfield5]

How big, when and where was the largest recorded earthquake?