Moesapie (Cape Moesapie) was a maritime coastal point and geographical landmark located near Koerong Raba Bay along the northwestern coast of the Aceh Sultanate, in modern Aceh Province, Indonesia.
Landing Marker in 1873
During the amphibious landings of the Second Aceh Expedition in December 1873, Cape Moesapie marked the outer geographical boundary of the anchorages utilized by General J. van Swieten’s invasion fleet. Dutch naval vessels stationed between Moesapie and Koerong Raba Bay covered the debarkation of the Marine Corps in Aceh during the Attack on Koerong Raba.
Account from Verstege’s Een beroep op het Nederlandsche volk (1886)
Verstege names Kota Moesapie the northeastern corner of the position of April 1875: the chain from Kota Alam passed from Lemboe Oost and Lemboe Noord along Lampriet, Langkroek-Oost, Lamara Zuid-Oost, Lamara Noord and Tiban to Moesapie, while the base of the triangle so formed was the coastal strip from Oleh-leh to Kota Moesapie (see Verstege’s folding map of Groot-Atjeh (1886)).
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Atjeh gedurende de tweede expeditie en later, Een Oud Officier, Batavia: Ogilvie & Co., 1876, pp. 16-19.
Een beroep op het Nederlandsche volk in zake het Atjeh-vraagstuk, door J. J. W. E. Verstege (Amsterdam: J. H. de Bussy, 1886), p. 53. OCR: DLP-158.