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Sun·da Islands

(sŭn′də, so͞on′-)

A group of islands of the western Malay Archipelago between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. The Greater Sunda Islands include Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and Sulawesi; the Lesser Sunda Islands lie east of Java and extend from Bali to Timor. Sumatra and Java are separated by the Sunda Strait, a narrow channel linking the Indian Ocean with the Java Sea.

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Sunda Islands

(ˈsʌndə)

pl n

(Placename) a chain of islands in the Malay Archipelago, consisting of the Greater Sunda Islands (chiefly Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Sulawesi) and Nusa Tenggara (the Lesser Sunda Islands). Former spelling: Soenda Islands

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Sun′da Is′lands

(ˈsʌn də)
n.pl.

a chain of islands in Indonesia, in the Malay Archipelago, including Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi (Greater Sunda Islands) and a group of smaller islands extending E from Java to Timor (Lesser Sunda Islands).

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Sunda Islands - a chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago

East India, East Indies, Malay Archipelago - a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia

Greater Sunda Islands - a chain of islands including Borneo and Celebes and Java and Sumatra

Lesser Sunda Islands, Nusa Tenggara - a chain of islands forming a province of Indonesia to the east of Java; includes Bali and Timor

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Another significant presentation at this-year's Sarajevo Business Forum (SBF) was the one on tourist potential and offer of Indonesia, which consists of 17.504 islands, the biggest ones being Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Papua, and smaller islands or group of islands such as Bali, the Lesser Sunda Islands, the Greater Sunda Islands and the Maluku Islands.

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Desceliers was able to delineate the north coasts of the Sunda Islands relatively accurately thanks to the Portuguese because it was their route to the Moluccas; they had reached Timor as early as 1515.

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In April 1909 he embarked on a second trip to the Indies, which brought him to the Straits Settlements, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, and the Philippines, always on the hunt for new material and information.

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Sangeang Api is one of the most active volcanoes in the Lesser Sunda islands. Between its first recorded eruption in 1512 and 1989, it had erupted 17 times.

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Sangeang Api, located on Sangeang island in Indonesia's Lesser Sunda Islands, erupted at around 4 p.m.

PAL cancels Darwin flight after eruption

The plate boundaries are most accurate along the axis of the trenches and more diffuse or speculative in the South China Sea and Lesser Sunda Islands. The active volcanic arcs (Siebert and Simkin, 2002) follow the Izu, Volcano, Mariana, and Ryukyu island chains and the main Philippine islands parallel to the Manila, Negros, Cotabato, and Philippine trenches.

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The island of Flores is part of the Sunda Islands, which are located to the east of Bali.

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This volume is a study of writing in the Regency of Sikka of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia.

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Location: Malay Peninsula, Greater Sunda Islands (Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi), Bali and the Philippines (Palawan, Mindoro).

Klaus, S., S. Solvandron, W. Goh et al., 2013, Out of Borneo: Neogene diversification of Sundaic freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae: Parathelphusa)

A little island stands out: it sits in the centre of a necklace of islands, called the lesser Sunda Islands, that stretches all the way from Malaysia to New Guinea.