To the west is Borneo. To the north are the Philippines. To the south is Flores. To the southeast is Timor. To the east are the Moluccas.
See also Lindu.
... the existence of the Strait of Tartary, which was discovered in 1809 by a Japanese, Mamiya Rinzo[?]. The Russian navigator Nevelskoi in 1849 definitively established th ...