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Sumbawa’s Ocean Rebels: Women Defying Tradition to Swim and Surf
For Yuni Rizkiah, swimming in the ocean never came easily. Growing up in Sumbawa, she was terrorized by stories of water demons and serpents as a child, told by her father—not out of malice ...
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Blast from the Past
More than 13,000 feet high, Tambora blew up in 1815 and blasted 12 cubic miles of gases, dust and rock into the atmosphere and onto the island of Sumbawa and the surrounding area. Rivers of ...