OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 259

Tobona

•  place of the earliest settlement on the island of Ternate, almost directly north of the present kampong of Fitu(eng).plaats der vroegste nederzetting op het eiland Ternate, ongeveer recht boven de tegenwoordige kampong Fitoe gelegen(nld).

Note: Valentijn less correctly calls it Tabona while he mentions (Ib, p. 180), among other things, a relocation of this village, which seems at present to have been forgotten