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Spermonde Archipelago
Kepulauan Sangkarang
Part of Indonesia
The Spermonde Archipelago (also known as the Sangkarang or Pabbiring Archipelago) is a group of around 120 islands off the southwest coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, located within the Coral Triangle, between the southern arc of Sulawesi and the Strait of Makassar.
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The Spermonde Archipelago (also known as the Sangkarang or Pabbiring Archipelago) is a group of around 120 islands off the southwest coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, located within the Coral Triangle, between the southern arc of Sulawesi and the Strait of Makassar. They comprise two administrative districts (Kecamatan Liukang Tupabbiring and Kecamatan Liukang Tupabbiring Utara) within the Pangkajene and Islands Regency of Indonesia's South Sulawesi Province. Situated west of Makassar, the archipelago covers a land area of approximately 140 km2, and comprises around 50 vegetated islands and 70 unvegetated sand cays, of which 43 in total are named. About 50 islands are inhabited, collectively home to 31,293 people at the 2020 Census, and officially estimated at 33,379 as of mid-2023.
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Census, cataloged
- Major islands3
- Minor islands21
- Islets48
- Rocks & skerries2
Major islands
Pulau Tanakeke
- Area
- 26.8 km²
- High point
- 15 m
Pulau Lantampeak
- Area
- 1.1 km²
- High point
- 5 m
Pulau Pannikiang
- Area
- 0.95 km²
- High point
- 12 m
Minor islands
Pulau Bauluang
- Area
- 0.67 km²
- High point
- 15 m
Pulau Sabangko
- Area
- 0.65 km²
- High point
- 13 m
Kapoposang Island
- Area
- 0.43 km²
- High point
- 17 m
Pulau Sagara
- Area
- 0.42 km²
- High point
- 7 m
Pulau Satangnga
- Area
- 0.33 km²
- High point
- 19 m
Pulau Sabutung
- Area
- 0.26 km²
- High point
- 20 m
Pulau Balang Lompo
- Area
- 0.26 km²
- High point
- 16 m
Pulau Langkai
- Area
- 0.25 km²
- High point
- 14 m
Pulau Dayangdayangan
- Area
- 0.24 km²
- High point
- 14 m
Pulau Barrang Lompo
- Area
- 0.23 km²
- High point
- 13 m
Pulau Kodingareng
- Area
- 0.21 km²
- High point
- 8 m
Pulau Karanrang
- Area
- 0.2 km²
- High point
- 17 m
Pulau Bangkobangkoang
- Area
- 0.16 km²
- High point
- 9 m
Pulau Gondongbali
- Area
- 0.15 km²
- High point
- 13 m
Pulau Kulambing
- Area
- 0.14 km²
- High point
- 9 m
Pulau Pandangang
- Area
- 0.14 km²
- High point
- 11 m
Pulau Salemo
- Area
- 0.13 km²
- High point
- 14 m
Pulau Lanjukang
- Area
- 0.12 km²
- High point
- 18 m
Pulau Sarappo Lompo
- Area
- 0.12 km²
- High point
- 13 m
Pulau Balang Caddi
- Area
- 0.11 km²
- High point
- 20 m
Pulau Dutungan
- Area
- 0.11 km²
- High point
- 44 m
Islets
- Pulau Laelae9 m · 0.09 km²
- Pulau Laiya9 m · 0.08 km²
- Pulau Kolokoloang1 m · 0.08 km²
- Pulau Badi12 m · 0.08 km²
- Pulau Samatellu Lompo6 m · 0.07 km²
- Pulau Tambakulu6 m · 0.07 km²
- Pulau Barrang Caddi5 m · 0.05 km²
- Pulau Sanane10 m · 0.05 km²
- Pulau Podangpodang Lompo6 m · 0.05 km²
- Pulau Pajenekang6 m · 0.05 km²
- Pulau Satando15 m · 0.05 km²
- Pulau Pammanggangang4 m · 0.05 km²
Rocks & skerries
- Unnamed island<0.1 ha
- Pulau Umming<0.1 ha
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Comparative heights
- Pulau Dutungan: 44 m
- Pulau Sabutung: 20 m
- Pulau Balang Caddi: 20 m
- Pulau Polewali: 20 m
- Pulau Satangnga: 19 m
- Pulau Lanjukang: 18 m
- Kapoposang: 17 m
- Pulau Karanrang: 17 m
- Pulau Samatellu Pedda: 17 m
- Pulau Samatellu Borong: 17 m
- Pulau Balang Lompo: 16 m
- Pulau Panambungang: 16 m
- Pulau Tanakeke: 15 m
- Pulau Bauluang: 15 m
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Islands by area
Groups within
Photographs
Dead corals, rubber corals
Badi Island is one of the underwater paradise for coral and fish, especially for tourists who want to dive and snorkeling
Susan Williams on a dive in the Spermonde Islands getting ready to record data on a coral restoration site.
Badi Island is one of spermonde Archipelago, Badi Island have wonderfull underwater sea, you can found many corals, and you can see sea turtle and you can find spider for coral transpantation in the west Badi Island
Sea garden is a term for a marine park that has a very beautiful beauty charm. Sea garden is termed to refer to marine tourism in particular.
Rhopalaea crassa is a marine animals belongings to the family Diazonidae. Rhopalaea crassa is a species of tunicata. I found in Kodingareng keke Island-Spermonde Archipelago, South Sulawesi.
Christmas tree Worm in Gondong Bali Island. You can see in massive coral living.
A y B Terrazoanthus sp. en el lado oeste de Pulau Badi, Archipélago Spermonde , Sulawesi sur,1997; C y D Terrazoanthus sp. en el lado oeste de Bone Lola, Archipélago Spermonde , Sulawesi sur,1998.
White Band Disease (WBD) is one of outbreak Disease to Corals, WBD can couse deathn to corals. WBD has characteristic white belt that separates dead coral and living corals
Thalassia hemprichi (Th) is one of segress in the World. In Indonesia, it is Known as Lamun dugong. The true thing Th because as favorite these sea mammals (Dugong dugon)
Sources
Facts
Photographs
- Broken Corals. Mudasir Zainuddin / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Uderwater Paradise. Mudasir Zainuddin / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Susan Williams diving. Jessmabbott / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wonderfull Underwater. Mudasir Zainuddin / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sea Garden. Mudasir Zainuddin / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Rhopalea crassa. Mudasir Zainuddin / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Christmas tree worm in Gondong Bali Island. Mudasir Zainuddin / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Phyllodiscus semoni. Bert W. Hoeksema & Andrea L. Crowther / CC BY 3.0
- Palythoa heliodiscus. James Reimer, Angelo Poliseno, Bert Hoeksema / CC BY 4.0
- Terrazoanthus. James Reimer, Angelo Poliseno, Bert Hoeksema / CC BY 4.0
- White Band Disease (WBD). Mudasir Zainuddin / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Thalassia Hemprichii. Mudasir Zainuddin / CC BY-SA 4.0