Cruises from Pulau Simeulue

Pulau Simeulue (“The Beautiful Island”) lies 120 km west of the northern quarter of Sumatra, a Regency of the Special Region of Aceh. It is only 100 km long and as narrow as 10 km. The island has a population of 85,000 that is familiar with regular earthquakes. Though the epicentre of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was just off the north of the island, they fled to the hills (and not to the water’s edge) and loss of life from the tsunami was low.