Mount Gamalama erupted on Saturday (15/9) night

 Mount Gamalama name is derived from Kie Gam Lamo ("big country"). Gamalama has erupted more than 60 times since the first recorded eruption in 1538. Eruption caused fatalities occurred at least four times, with most falling victim in 1775. At that time, the eruption of Mount Gamalama eliminate Takomi Soela village with 141 inhabitants. After the eruption, in village location within 18 kilometers from the center of Ternate came two lakes, namely Lake Tolire Jaha and Small Tolire.

Eruption of Mount Gamalama last occurred in 2003. The eruption was not big and did not cause casualties, but for more than a week, is spewing volcanic ash eruptions covered the sky Ternate. Sultan Babullah Airport which is the main airport and the entrance to the North Maluku should be closed and most of the people fled to the island of Tidore closest distance from Ternate.

MS ALBATROS COMES A CRUISING FROM GERMANY

Kuching, 8 March 2012– MS ALBATROS, a German cruise ship operated by Phoenix Reisen based in Bonn, Germany, arrived Sarawak’s shores this morning.

The cruise ship is on its 21 Days “On The Trail of the European Explorer” commencing from Fremantle, on to Geraldton and Exmouth in Australia and then on to Benoa and Padang Bai in Indonesia , arriving in Kuching this morning. From Kuching the cruise will make its way to Laem Chabang in Thailand, Sihanoukeville in Cambodia and will travel down to Singapore, Port Kelang, Georgetown and finally to Sabang, Indonesia and ending in Colombo, India.

The cruise ship had 833 passengers and a crew of 340 on board. They were made up of various nationalitieswith the majority being from Australia. They are scheduled to visit key tourist spots in Kuching such as Sarawak Cultural Village, Kuching City as well as the Orang Utan at Semenggoh Wildlife Centre.

MV Albatros will Visit in Sabang

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BANDA ACEH - Regional tourist destination Sabang, Aceh province, the cruise ship will stop off five times during 2012, which will transport thousands of tourists to the area.

"Of the five cruise ship visits planned throughout the year 2012, one of them is the MV Seabourn Lagend will be docked at the port of Sabang Bay on Thursday (23/2)," said Head of Culture and Tourism Promotion Sabang, M Ali Taufik in Sabang, today.

Mentioned, cruise ship visits scheduled throughout 2012 to the city of Sabang was, respectively, MV Seabourn Lagend (February 23), MV Seabourn Pride (March 1), MV Seabourn Lagend (March 3), MV Seabourn Pride and MS Albatros (1 April).

MS Albatross Cruisen Visit Surabaya

Dinkominfo - After 12 years of vacuum, finally received a visit Surabaya cruise ship MS Albatross Cruisen, Wednesday (24/3) at the jetty Tanjung Perak Surabaya. The ship weighs 20,018 GRT and a length of 240 meters carrying 939 people consisting of 600 passengers and 339 crew.

City Tour program has been prepared for 230 passengers with a route that visits the Museum Cigarette (House Of Sampoerna), Monument of Heroes, Flower Jepun, Sunan Ampel, Monkasel, Kayoon Flower Market, the Grahadi, Bull Race in Kenjeran Park. while Bromo Sun Rice Tour has been designed for about 30 passengers and the group will go directly to the city of Semarang. Especially for City Tpur have supplied about seven large buses and six micro bus to Bromo Sun Rise Tour.

Shortly after the ship docked at the pier, the tourists were greeted with the arts and culture of the East Java Reog Ponorogo moving dynamic and smart musical accompaniment. Surabaya Mayor Bambang DH symbolically pinning and draping selengang udheng typical East Java batik to tourists as a welcome greeting in City of Heroes.

For All Crew MV Albatros

Good news,

Now it has created a special website for the crew MV Albatros, either still active or who have not worked in the MV Albatros anymore. The function of this website is to accommodate all the activities of the crew on the ship and off the ship, including the crew who were on vacation.

To that end, it is expected to greatly to all crew and former crew MV Albatros to participate in providing articles and pictures to be posted in this site. Friends MV Albatros crew can submit articles and pictures via my email: rahmatsuryadi76@gmail.com. Your article I enter on this site as soon as possible.

Thank you for your attention

Rahmat Suryadi...