Enggano Island
is located in North Bengkulu district. The origin name of “Enggano” Island has several versions. First,
the name of Enggano isn’t a vocabulary of Tempatan, but it’s a name of the
European voyagers, when Cornelis de Houtman come in to the island yet. The
island has been named as Enggano which in Portuguese means
"kesalahan" or in English "mistake, error". Second, when Cornelis de Houtman did expedition
with four expeditions ship which called Mauritius, Hollandia, Amsterdam and
Duyfken, he wrote a note: ”on June 5, 1596, He arrived at the first Island of
the East Indian: Enggano Island which is located in the west of South Sumatra
Island”. Thus, the earliest Enggano
Island published is that of Cornelis de Houtman dating from June 5,
1596, but the origin name of Enggano
already exists before Cornelis de Houtman arrived in that Island.
Between April
25 and July 13, 1891, Elio Modigliani who is Italian explorer visited Enggano
Island. He detailed the apparently dominant role of women in Enggano culture in
L'Isola delle Donne (The Island of Women), first published in
1894. The Rijksmuseum has an important collection of Enggano artifacts and
their publication by Pieter J.ter Keurs reproduces Modigliani's drawings.
Enggano Island
may now serve as an isolated area of water sports especially for surfing and
diving.
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