Balambangan Island

Pulau Balambangan, also Balembangan Pulau is a Malaysian state of Sabah on the island belonging in the South China Sea off the northern tip of Borneo. The island is located about 40 kilometers north of Kudat. The island extends 24 km in a north-easterly direction and is up to 7 kilometers wide. [Note 1] To the southwest, a wooded hill of 119 meters above sea level rises. The island is separated by a four- kilometer-wide Strait of Pulau Banggi in the West. The channel between the two islands is called West Banggi Strait or West Banggi Channel.

History

In August 1997, archaeological excavations provided evidence that the island was already inhabited in prehistoric times by people.

The British East India Company founded on 23 January 1763 after negotiations Alexander Dalrymple with the Sultan of Sulu a trading post on Pulau Balambangan Iceland. However, the company decided in 1773 to use their acquisition cost and sent Captain John Herbert with the mandate to establish a British colony on Balambangan. Herbert built a trading post complete with homes, offices, warehouses, and a ship berth. His difficult personality led but soon a rift with the merchants of Sulu, which then allied themselves with the Pirates of the Marudu Bay. 1775, the settlement was attacked by pirates and completely destroyed. According to legend, Captain Herbert had in his flight a larger amount of gold on the island leave, why Pulau Balambangan is called the " Treasure Island Sabah " today.

Demography

The villages on Pulau Balambangan are concentrated in the southwest of the island:

  • Kg Sina
  • Kg Selamat Darat
  • Kg Buntud
  • Kg Lok Simpul Sebelah
  • Kg Selamat
  • Kg Tabunan
  • Kg Batu sirih
  • Kg Kukus
  • Kg Tabuan

Use

The inhabitants of the island are mainly engaged in fishing. There are also some smaller areas where shifting cultivation and operated mainly vegetables are planted. A private enterprises, Chung Pao Ocean Sdn. Bhd. , Operates an aquaculture for sea cucumbers.

As early as 1930 the privileged nature of the forest has been detected and set up a first forest reserve. In 1984, about 371 ha of the island to reserve Class I ( Protection Forest Reserve, FR) explained ..

Although the island would have a great potential for ecotourism in addition to its forest reserves and several interesting archaeological places, the Sabah government plans to make the island because of its clinker inventories at a center of the cement industry. From the plans, the existence of more than 20 limestone caves would be affected, of which only four are explored.

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