Bintulu

Bintulu is a coastal city on the island of Borneo in the critical area of Sarawak, Malaysia. Bintulu is located 610 kilometres northeast of Kuching, 216 kilometres northeast of Sibu, and 200 kilometres southwest of Miri. With a populace of 114,058 as of 2010, Bintulu is the capital of the Bintulu District of the Bintulu Division of Sarawak, Malaysia. James Brooke modified into appointed the White Rajah of Sarawak now called Kuching with the aid of the Bruneian Empire in 1841.

In 1861, the Sultanate of Brunei ceded the Bintulu location to Brooke. Bintulu became a small agreement at that point. A wood citadel named Fort Keppel become constructed within the village, named after Sir Henry Keppel, who became a near buddy of the Rajah James and Charles Brooke. Sir Henry Keppel changed into answerable for crushing the Dayak piracy in the Saribas among 1840 and 1850.

Meanwhile, Charles Brooke was a nephew of James Brooke and can later emerge as the latter's successor as the second Rajah of Sarawak. Odoardo Beccari, an Italian botanist, visited Bintulu in 1867. On 4 August, he began his adventure on a gunboat named "Heartsease", which was to ship $6,000 to Brunei for concessions being made to James Brooke within the Mukah and Bintulu regions. He went to Labuan earlier than coming again to Bintulu. He dropped off at Kemena River on thirteen August 1867.