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Mount Hiri

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38: 31: 311: 201:(Z Force), the mainly Australian special operations group active in this area during World War II, on April 9–10, 1945, to take the then Sultan of Ternate, Iskander Muhammad Jabir Syah, to safety from the occupying Japanese forces. The Sultan and his family were rowed at night from Ternate across to Hiri Island, where Z Force protected them from the Japanese troops the next day. He and his family were shortly after taken by U.S. Navy PT boat to 182:. It is a conical stratovolcano which rises to 630 m (2,067 ft). The island covers 9.72  km and had a population of 2,880 in mid 2023; it is administered as a district ( 352: 97: 381: 30: 376: 371: 268: 345: 83: 90: 338: 272: 230: 235: 150: 178:. It is located at the northernmost part of a chain of volcanic islands off the western coast of 78: 322: 310: 198: 171: 365: 155: 318: 137: 50: 166:
is a small, 3-kilometre-wide forested island immediately north of the island of
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Mount Hiri is located in Indonesia
North Maluku
Elevation
Listing
List of volcanoes in Indonesia
Coordinates
0°54′N 127°19′E / 0.9°N 127.32°E / 0.9; 127.32
North Maluku
Mountain type
Volcanic cone
Ternate
Maluku Islands
Indonesia
Halmahera
Ternate
Mount Gamalama
Z Special Unit
Morotai Island


"Hiri"
Global Volcanism Program
Smithsonian Institution
"The untold story: how Z Force saved the sultan"
The Sydney Morning Herald
Volcanological Survey of Indonesia
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North Maluku
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