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Aketajawe-Lolobata National Park

national park in Indonesia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ1427206 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aketajawe-Lolobata National Park is a national park on Halmahera, the biggest island in the North Maluku province of Indonesia. The park is considered by BirdLife International to be vital for the survival of at least 23 endemic bird species. Aketajawe-Lolobata, which has an area of 167,300 hectares, was declared a national park in 2004.

Location and geography

The Aketajawe-Lolobata National Park is located in the northern part of Halmahera island in the East Halmahera Regency of North Maluku. It is part of the Wallacea biodiversity hotspot.

Flora and fauna

The vegetation of the national park consists primarily of lowland and montane rainforest. The forest is characterised by a high level of biodiversity, including Agathis species, Calophyllum inophyllum, Octomeles sumatrana, Koordersiodendron pinnatum, Pometia pinnata, Intsia bijuga, Canarium mehenbethene gaerta, and Palaquium obtusifolium.

From 51 mammal species found in North Maluku, 28 are found on Halmahera Island, of which seven are endemic to this region, and one, the ornate cuscus (Phalanger ornatus), is endemic to the island.

Of the 243 bird species in North Maluku, 211 have been recorded on Halmahera Island of which 24 are endemic, including Wallace's standardwing, Halmahera cuckooshrike, sombre kingfisher, white cockatoo, invisible rail, blue-and-white kingfisher, dusky-brown oriole, Moluccan goshawk, dusky scrubfowl, long-billed crow, grey-headed fruit dove, ivory-breasted pitta, and azure dollarbird.

Reptiles and amphibians in the park include the Callulops dubia, Caphixalus montanus, and Hydrosaurus werneri.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Aketajawe-Lolobata National Park” as national park in Indonesia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004. The account is most persuasive where Aketajawe-Lolobata, National and Park can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as national park in Indonesia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1427206. Authority coordinates are 1.150, 128.267. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Aketajawe-Lolobata National Park” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.