Manado Tua is a volcanic island in the

Celebes Sea The Celebes Sea ( ; ) or Sulawesi Sea (; ) of the western Pacific Ocean is bordered on the north by the Sulu Archipelago and Sulu Sea and Mindanao Island of the Philippines, on the east by the Sangihe Islands chain, on the south by Sulawes ...

off the northeast coast of

Sulawesi Sulawesi ( ), also known as Celebes ( ), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the List of islands by area, world's 11th-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Min ...

. The island is located in

Bunaken National Park Bunaken National Park is a marine park in the north of Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. The park is located near the centre of the Coral Triangle, providing habitat to 390 species of coral as well as many fish, mollusks, reptiles and marine mammal spe ...

. The name Manado comes from ''manadou'' or ''wanazou'' meaning "on the far coast" or "in the distance," which is derived from

Minahasan languages The Minahasan languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken by the Minahasa people in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. They belong to the Philippine subgroup. Considerable lexical influence comes from Dutch, Spanish, Portugues ...

. When the settlement on the island was relocated to

, the name

Manado Manado (, ) is the capital City status in Indonesia, city of the Indonesian Provinces of Indonesia, province of North Sulawesi. It is the second largest city in Sulawesi after Makassar, with the 2020 census giving a population of 451,916,Badan ...

was brought with it, and the island became referred to as Manado Tua ("Old Manado").Willem H. Makaliwe, 1981
A preliminary note on genealogy and intermarriage in the Minahasa regency, North Sulawesi
''Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde'' 137, p. 245

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Islands of Sulawesi Landforms of North Sulawesi Populated places in Indonesia {{NSulawesi-geo-stub 220x220px, Harvesting of coconuts is very common on the island