This stream was where the boats of H.M.S. Iris was attacked by Illanoon pirates in 1846, during the British expedition to North Borneo to suppress piracy.[1]
While the stream is short, it once served as the northwest most extremities of Sulu sultanate influence in Borneo in the 19th century, and therefore appeared in the 1878 agreement,[2] that became point of contention in the North Borneo dispute.
Pandasan river as viewed from the village of Pandasan
