Savu

Oe-cusse Enclave, a lush secluded area cut off from the rest of East Timor by the Savu Sea, is thought to have been a leprosy colony during Portuguese and later Indonesian rule.

Tiny East Timor Declares War On Leprosy AP 2010

-- Ioan Savu, factory worker, just before the "cleanest and purest moment" in his life: his address to the people of Timisoara. posted by Dr. Dawg at 8: 35 AM

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

Oe-cusse Enclave, a lush secluded area cut off from the rest of East Timor by the Savu Sea, is thought to have been a leprosy colony during Portuguese and later Indonesian rule.

Tiny East Timor Declares War On Leprosy AP 2010

Oe-cusse Enclave, a lush secluded area cut off from the rest of East Timor by the Savu Sea, is thought to have been a leprosy colony during Portuguese and later Indonesian rule.

Tiny East Timor Declares War On Leprosy AP 2010

Oe-cusse Enclave, a lush secluded area cut off from the rest of East Timor by the Savu Sea, is thought to have been a leprosy colony during Portuguese and later Indonesian rule.

Tiny East Timor Declares War On Leprosy AP 2010

They found it easier to ignore the nine-thousand-foot depth of the Savu Sea than to accept the evidence that elephants do swim.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

The Savu Sea, between those two islands, is more than ten times that deep.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Two decades ago, shortly before Johnson began airing his unorthodox hypothesis, a pair of reputable stegodontologists declared: “Because an elephant and presumably a stegodont could not swim across the Savu Sea and Ombai Strait, the existence of a land connexion between Flores and Timor during the Pleistocene must be postulated.”

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Bastholm represents most nations as very vicious and immoral; and on the other hand he reports that excellent traits of character are found amongst some savage peoples; as, for instance, amongst the Orotchyses, the inhabitants of the island Savu, the Tunguses, and the Pelew islanders.

On Human Nature 2004

I saw in Coupang some chiefs from the island of Savu further west, who presented characters very distinct from either the Malay or Papuan races.

The Malay Archipelago 2004