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Sailing to Malaysia and Singapore
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Sailing to Malaysia and Singapore

The blog post is in English and thereafter in Swedish. Pictures and videos at the end Blogginlägget är på engelska och därefter på svenska. Bilder och videor på slutet We really had little wind during the days we had to get to our destination. We sailed in the shallow sea between Sumatra and Borneo into the Batam archipelago towards Singapore. The area is called Sunda Shelf, which during the ...

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Kumai, Borneo
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Kumai, Borneo

Kalimantan is the name of the Indonesian part of Borneo. A strip of land on the northern side of the island belongs to Malaysia and the small kingdom of Brunei is also located here. The island is very rich in natural resources with coal deposits, and gold as well as other metals are also mined here. In addition, large palm oil plantations are spreading where there used to be rainforest. With ...

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Lombok, Bali and Jakarta
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Lombok, Bali and Jakarta

There is an ocean current called the Indonesian throughflow (ITF) that helps large amounts of warm water from the Pacific Ocean reach the colder water in the Indian Ocean. This makes the area one of the most species-rich in the world where species from both oceans meet. Because the trade winds in the northern and southern hemispheres push the ocean water in different directions, the Pacific water ...

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