How did Sumatra get its name?
The great island has been called many names throughout history. How did Sumatra stick?
Useful linksĀ
Marco Ramerini’s excellent colonial history website
Author, historian, voyager; my mate Ian Burnet
Want to tour the Spice Islands by boat?
Moleiro Antique map & atlas facsimiles
The UK Ordnance Society for artillery
The Hakuyt Society; a broad series of historic accounts
The great island has been called many names throughout history. How did Sumatra stick?
The story of the glorious Piri Reis World Map of 1513, only a small section of which remains.
climb aboard a seventeenth century Spanish galleon on a run through the North Sea