Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us All Creatures Great and Small # 49 Fish A wild betta (Betta burdigala) is only known from Bangka Island, while a wild (Betta uberis) resides in Kalimantan Tengah and Kalimantan Barat in Indonesia. Both species share numerous physical characteristics,
Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us The Great Flood Saganda Manikam (Siagasangsana) ~1277- 1303 After Pangiran Sri Paduka Tuanku Indrana Junjunan changed into a dragon and went into the Kaliman Sea (Keleman ) his son Pangiran Molia Tuan Siagasangsana became the ruler and took the
Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us An Old Ruler of Santubong For those who have just joined us: The article is the continuation of a series of the rulers of Santubong told us by a Dukun in Kampong Panglima Seman Llama near Kuching. For earlier
Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us The Rulers of Santubong 1131-1242 We continue on with the next three rulers of Santubong as told to us by the Dukun. The existence of Sri Vijaya has been called into question by the scholar Dr. Liam Kelly of
Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us All Creatures Great and Small #48 https://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/BJK/issue/view/241 Tom’s Note: It has been the policy of the column “All Creatures Great and Small” to draw attention to those who publish research papers about Borneo. According to the British Journal Nature,
Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Sagenda Sarik and Sagenda LeLang Kundor These are numbers four and five of the rulers of Santubong as related to us by the dukun. The story, according to him, is connected to Sagenda Lelang Saganda Sarik (Indra Sarik )
Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Love on the Mountain Santubong and Se Jinjang My favourite piece of oral history about Sarawak. Kuching, Sarawak, is dominated by a mountain called Santubong. This article is attributed to the reign of Sagenta Galam by the Dukun who
Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Santubong: First Two Rulers We begin this series with the rulers of Santubong from ~966-~1512.(the dates are not exact as the symbol ~ tells you) We obtained the information from a Dukun in a Kampung who said his grandfather
Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us All Creatures Great and Small # 47 Coral Reefs Need to study the reefs before they are gone, and so are the tourists. Research papers compiled indicated that Malaysian-based coral reef publication in WoS database is relatively lacking, especially
Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Krakatoa Volcano did not erupt in 536 The Eruption of Krakatoa in 536 AD by Tom McLaughlin In our book, we supported the hypothesis by David Keys that there was a volcanic eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in 536.
Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Cannibalism in Borneo Cannibalism and Borneo The Iban or Dyaks began their conquest of Borneo from the Kapuas River and pushed north into the hinterland. Unfortunately, there were already tribes of people living in the areas they wished to
Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Sultan Tengah There may have been a person called the Raja Tengah who left Brunei after a dispute with his brother and had adventures in the south of Borneo during the 1600s. Here we look at five different stories.