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The islands are the easternmost in Maluku province, and are located in the Arafura Sea southwest of New Guinea and north of Australia. The total area of the islands is 8,563 km˛ (3,306 sq mi). The largest island is Tanahbesar (also called Wokam ); Dobo , the chief port of the islands, is on Wamar, just off Tanahbesar. Other main islands are Kola , Kobroor , Maikoor , and Trangan . The main islands rise to low hills, and are separated by meandering channels.
Aru is covered by a mix of tropical moist broadleaf forests, savanna, and mangroves. The Islands lie on the Australia-New Guinea continental shelf, and were connected to Australia and New Guinea by land when sea levels were lower during the ice ages. The flora and fauna of Aru are part of the Australasia ecozone, and closely related to that of New Guinea. Aru is part, together with much of western New Guinea, of the Vogelkop-Aru lowland rain forests terrestrial ecoregion.
Products include sago, coconutThe Coconut Palm Cocos nucifera L. is a member of the Family Arecaceae (palm family). It is the only species classified in the genus Cocos . The term coconut refers to the fruit of the coconut palm. Origins The origins of this plant are the subject of debs, tobaccoacuminata N. alata N. attenuata N. bigelovil N. clevelandii N. debneyi N. excelsior N. exigua N. forgetiana N. glutinosa N. kawakamii N. knightiana N. langsdorffii N. longiflora N. obtusifolia N. otephora N. paniculata N. plumbagifolia N. quadrivalvis N., mother of pearl, trepang (an edible sea cucumberSubclass Apodacea Apodida Molpadiida Subclass Aspidochirotacea Aspidochirotida Elasipodida Subclass Dendrochirotacea Dactylochirotida Dendrochirotida The sea cucumber is an echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea with an elongated body and leathery skin., which is dried and cured), tortoiseshell, and bird of paradiseFor the flowering plant of this name, see Strelitzia''. Cicinnurus Diphyllodes Epimachus Lophorina Manucodia Paradisaea Parotia Ptiloris Seleucidis The birds of paradise are members of the family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes, found in Oceania. plumes.
The islands were colonized by the DutchDutch redirects here. For other uses, see Dutch (disambiguation). The Netherlands ( Dutch: Nederland is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a constitutional monarchy. It is located in northwestern Europe and borders the North Sea, Belgium after 1623Events August 6 Pope Urban VIII is elected to the Papacy. Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Osman II (1618- 1622) to Murat IV ( 1623- 1640). The Safavids recapture Baghdad. England first colonizes Saint Kitts and Nevis. Wilhelm Schickard invent.
Recently, Aru Islands have been a new residence separated from Kabupaten Maluku Tenggara , with the capital : Dobo.