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Ellena – America’s Lost Colony in Kimanis of North Borneo

Posted on August 26th, 2012 with 1 Comment

In the nineteenth century around the time of the American Civil War, an American colony once existed in North Borneo….

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Kampung Benoni of Papar in North Borneo Once Home to Dinosaurs?

Posted on July 27th, 2012 with 7 Comments

Did North Borneo have its own version of the Loch Ness Monster? Find out more what used to lie under…

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Philippe B. Funk’s Rare and Beautiful North Borneo Picture Postcards

Posted on June 15th, 2012 with 3 Comments

Philippe Funk was a Chinese Hakka from Sandakan, British North Borneo. He was the single most important publisher of printed…

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Three Came Home Movie: Agnes Keith’s Story in British North Borneo’s Sandakan During WWII

Posted on June 1st, 2012 with 0 Comments

Three Came Home is based on a a true story of Agnes Newton Keith’s imprisonment in several Japanese prisoner-of-war camps…

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Watch this Short Video Documentary of The Sandakan Death March

Posted on May 17th, 2012 with 0 Comments

Late last year, I posted an article about the Sandakan Death March of which six Australian POWs managed to escape….

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Jesselton’s District Officer Francis George Atkinson’s Death Announcement in 1902

Posted on May 15th, 2012 with 0 Comments

The Atkinson Clock Tower nearby Bandaran Berjaya in Kota Kinabalu, was built by Mary Edith Atkinson in 1905 in memory…

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Australian War Memorial’s Photos of Heavily Bombed Jesselton During World War II

Posted on January 11th, 2012 with 3 Comments

If you stand right in the heart of Kota Kinabalu or Jesselton today you won’t be able to imagine the…

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Chinese and Suluks Revolt against Japanese in North Borneo During World War II

Posted on November 21st, 2011 with 3 Comments

On 19 October 1943, local Chinese and native Suluks rise up against the Japanese occupation of North Borneo. The revolt,…

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Batu Sapi Rock Formation at Sandakan, North Borneo in 1920s

Posted on October 24th, 2011 with 1 Comment

Batu Sapi in Sandakan got its name from a huge rock formation that resembles a bull. This unique formation was…

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2500 Australian and British Prisoners of War (P.O.W.) Died During The Sandakan Death March in 1945

Posted on October 11th, 2011 with 2 Comments

Sandakan, the prison compound in British North Borneo held 2,434 Australian and British POWs, captured when Singapore fell. They were…

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