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King Kong

2006
05.20

In the 2005 remake of King Kong, the tramp steamer Venture was shown to be registered in “Surabaya.” That is a slight oversight: the contemporary spelling in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) in the 1920s was “Soerabaja” — the “oe” in Dutch being pronounced as “u” (c.f., Soekarno/Sukarno).

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