Borneo

The world's third-largest island: orangutans, ancient rainforest, and Mount Kinabalu.

220 stories in this region.

Stories

Jami Mosque of Pontianak
Pontianak Sultanate
Kyai Gede Mosque
Kapuas River
The River That Connects Borneo to Madagascar
Where the Streets Are Rivers
The River of Four Names
The Sultanate of Banjar
Borneo Orangutan Survival
The Night Kasongan Market Burned
The Million-Hectare Mistake
Borneo's Dayak Heartland
The Great Dayak River
The Vanishing Green Heart of Borneo
Oil, Empire, and the Fight for Borneo
Sixty Seconds Over Banjarmasin
The Destroyer That Almost Changed History
Building a Capital From Scratch in the Borneo Rainforest
Fire on the Water at Balikpapan
The Last Beach
Three Flags, One Hull
Four Minutes to Abandon Ship
The Bay That Burned
Borneo's Oil Capital
The Airfield That Vanished
The Vanishing Green Heart of Borneo
Samboja Lestari: Planting a Forest from Scratch
Willie Smits: The Dutchman Who Regrew a Rainforest
The Mahakam: Borneo's River of Kingdoms and Dolphins
The Bridge That Tried to Be Golden
Ninety-Nine Names in the Sky Over Samarinda
Equally Low: Samarinda and the Mahakam
Two Minutes of Distraction
The Five Minutes That Swallowed the Teratai Prima
The Ground Beneath Mamuju
The Drum of God
The Invisible Wall of Makassar Strait
Battle of Bau
Battle of Plaman Mapu
Fort Alice
The White Rajahs of Sarawak
Sarawak State Museum
Betung Kerihun National Park
Fort Sylvia
Crown Colony of Sarawak
Kutai: Where the Rainforest Holds the Line
Badak LNG: Borneo's Gas Giant
Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat Karst
Martin B-10
Similajau National Park
Niah National Park
East Malaysia
Baram Dam
The Last Cathedral of Trees
Twenty-Nine Minutes Over Borneo
The Fort That Ended the Feuds
Marudi
Sarawak Chamber
Miri Airport
The Grand Old Lady of Canada Hill
Twenty Years on the Seattle Run
The Ghost Ship of Miri
Miri
Kelabit Highlands
Belait Swamp Forest
The Abode of Peace on Borrowed Coastline
The Dragon's Lake
From Residency to Memory
The Line That Split a Sultanate
The Oil Town at the River's Mouth
One Billion Barrels of Black Gold
The Gurkhas in the Jungle
Brunei's Billion-Dollar Bet on Urea
The Telegram That Kept a Nation
Panaga
Seria Oil Field
Seria
Where the River Meets the Sea
The Green Jewel You Can Only Reach by River
The Black Lake and the White Crocodile
The Venice of the East
From Customs House to Energy Story
Keepers of the Royal Genealogy
The Tallest Building in Brunei Town Was Built by Teachers
The House of Twelve Roofs
Where Brunei Met the World
Istana Darul Hana: The Palace That Survived a Rebellion
Istana Darussalam: Where a Sultan Was Born on a Riverbank
Istana Nurul Iman: The Palace of Light and Excess
Twenty-Nine Domes of Gold
The Brown River That Built a Capital
The Parliament That Answers to One
The Brick Maker Who Built a Nation's Schools
Where a Sultan Was Crowned and a Constitution Was Born
The Tomb That Visitors Keep Destroying with Devotion
The Sultans' Rest
From Churchill's Shadow to the Sultan's Gold
The Letter E and the End of Empire
The Sultan's Unannounced Visit
The Field Where Brunei Became a Nation