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ddebernardy on June 9, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zanzibar: Consistent, Global Authorization System

Odd. Zanzibar is off the coast of Tanzania in East Africa. The Spice Islands (the Moluccas) are in Eastern Indonesia.

pronoiac on June 9, 2019 [–]

I was going by the twitter thread, but I looked and found this in Wikipedia:

> the Zanzibar Archipelago, together with Tanzania's Mafia Island, are sometimes referred to locally as the "Spice Islands" (a term borrowed from the Maluku Islands of Indonesia).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar

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