This spice island does not only boast cloves and nutmegs. It also has Alfred Russel Wallace, the English naturalist who presented the evolution theory along with Charles Darwin before the Linnean Society of London.

Indeed Ternate is inseparable from the great name of Wallace, since from this town this bio-geographer sent Darwin a letter with a paper entitled On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type. Wallace prep