ternate totototo in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, LongmanPearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.Ternate, also known as the City of Ternate, is the city with the largest population in the province of North Maluku and an island in the Maluku Islands, Indonesia.It was the de facto provincial capital of North Maluku before Sofifi on the nearby