SUNDA ISLANDS

sŭnˈdə, mainly in Indonesia, between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, comprising the western part of the Malay Archipelago. It includes two main groups: the Greater Sunda Islands, to which belong the largest islands of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi; and the Lesser Sundas, which lie E of Java and include Sumbawa, Flores, Timor, and Sumba (the largest islands). Bali and Lombok, although smaller, are the most important of the Lesser Sundas. The Lesser Sundas, which were renamed Nusa Tenggara [southeastern islands] in 1954, form two provinces within Indonesia. Malaysia, Brunei, and East Timor are the other nations wholly or partially in the Sunda Islands. The Sunda Strait, 20 to 65 mi (32–100 km) wide, between Java and Sumatra, connects the Java Sea with the Indian Ocean.

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Cooperative Monitoring in the South China Sea: Satellite Imagery, Confidence-Building Measures, and the Spratly Islands Disputes
Book by John C. Baker, David G. Wiencek; Praeger, 2002
Subjects: Confidence And Security Building Measures (International Relations)--Technological Innovations, Conflict Management, South China Sea--Remote-Sensing Images, Spratly Islands--International Status
...through the Straits of Malacca, Sunda, and Lombok, with the majority...Oil flows past the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea are estimated...passes through the Malacca and Sunda Straits must pass near the Spratly Islands. The other major shipping lane...
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A Geography of Islands: Small Island Insularity
Book by Stephen A. Royle; Routledge, 2001
Subjects: Islands--Economic Conditions--Maps, Islands--Geography--Maps, Islands--Maps, Islands--Social Aspects--Maps
...classic cone formation, is an island arc volcano. The Alutian Islands rise to the north of the Alutian Trench; the Marianas to the...Indonesian archipelago arises from a 7000 m deep trench, the Sunda or Java Trench and the Philippines are to the west of the Philippines...
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Voyages of Discovery: The Archaeology of Islands
Book by Scott M. Fitzpatrick; Praeger, 2004
Subjects: Island Ecology--Congresses, Island People--History--Congresses, Islands--History--Congresses, Prehistoric Peoples--Congresses, Social Archaeology--Congresses
...Voyages of Discovery The Archaeology of Islands Edited by Scott M. Fitzpatrick...Voyages of discovery : the archaeology of islands / edited by Scott M. Fitzpatrick. p...4. Prehistoric peoples-Congresses. 5. Islands- History-Congresses. 6. Island ecology-Congresses...
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An Outcast of the Islands
Book by Joseph Conrad; Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914
Subjects: Fiction
...head boy of the Chinese servants in the Sunda Hotel even to this day. Willems was...years there was not a white man in the islands, from Palembang to Ternate, from Ombawa...the priest, a native from the Spanish islands, now and then. The young man Leonard...
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World War II Pacific Island Guide: A Geo-Military Study
Book by Gordon L. Rottman; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Islands Of The Pacific--Strategic Aspects, Military Geography--Pacific Area, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean, World War, 1939-1945--United States
...arrives at Borabora, Society Islands. 3 Mar IJN bombs Pearl Harbor...dissolved. 28 Feb Battle of Sunda Strait, IJN wins. IJA assaults...surrenders. PART THREE THE ISLANDS 1 Central and Southern Pacific U.S. Possessions The islands discussed in this chapter played...
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A Matter of Balance: An Overview of Pleistocene Occupation History and the Impact of the Last Glacial Phase in East Timor and the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia
Journal article by Sue O'Connor, Ken Aplin; Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 42, 2007
Subjects: Animal remains (Archaeology)--Identification and classification, Archaeological dating--Usage, Aru Islands--Natural history, East Timor--Natural history, Glacial epoch--Environmental aspects, Ice age--Environmental aspects, Last Glacial Maximum--Environmental aspects, Prehistoric archaeology--Research
...Moluccas and Lesser Sunda Islands, including Timor...remained on the Am Islands throughout the Holocene...Asia east of the Sunda Shell For example...colonization east of the Sunda Shelf. Antiquity...cave site in the Aru Islands. In S. OConnor, M...
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Brinkmanship and Deterrence Success during the Anglo-Indonesian Sunda Straits Crisis, 1964-1966
Journal article by Toh Boon Kwan; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 36, 2005
Subjects: Crisis intervention, Crisis intervention (Psychiatry), Deterrence (Strategy)--Analysis, Deterrence (Strategy)--History, United Kingdom--Foreign policy, United Kingdom--International relations
...Archipelago Doctrine The Sunda Straits Crisis had...outermost points of its islands, and declared absolute...as the Java Sea, Sunda Straits and Lombok...between its various islands as part of the High...foreign-backed Outer Islands secession movement...success during the Sunda Straits Crisis contradict...
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Kettle on a Slow Boil: Batavia's Threat Perceptions in the Indies' Outer Islands, 1870-1910
Journal article by Eric Tagliacozzo; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 31, 2000
Subjects: Cartography--Southeast Asia, Colonization--Southeast Asia, Netherlands--History, Trade routes--Southeast Asia
...telephone queries about the Prinsen Islands, which lay scattered across the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra...for population figures on the islands and other information, without...especially since these particular islands (which served as an entry-way...
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Badu 15 and the Papuan-Austronesian Settlement of Torres Strait
Journal article by Bruno David, Ian Mcniven, Rod Mitchell, Meredith Orr, Simon Haberle, Liam Brady, Joe Crouch; Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 39, 2004
Subjects: Archaeology--Research, Islands--History
...D.W. BIRD, S. OCONNOR amp; R.B. BIRD in press. The Murray Islands Archaeological Project: preliminary results of excavations on...Torres Strait. In J. Allen, J. Golson amp; R. Jones (eds), Sunda and Sahul, pp. 421-63. Academic Press: New York. HERLE, A...
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The History of Faunal Terms in Austronesian Languages
Journal article by Robert Blust; Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Austronesian languages--Research, Historical linguistics--Research, Language and languages--Word frequency, Linguistic paleontology--Research
...Sulawesi, and at least the Lesser Sunda islands of eastern Indonesia. For the...Philippines and in the Lesser Sunda islands of eastern Indonesia, providing...is common in some of the Lesser Sunda Islands of eastern Indonesia, and in parts...
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Trouble in Paradise; Sun-Drenched Beaches, Vibrant Coral Gardens and Lush Tropical Jungle -- Malaysia's Perhentian Islands Seem to Have It All. but Will Mass Tourism Have a Heavy Debt to Pay?
Magazine article by Andrew Brackenbury; Geographical, Vol. 74, April 2002
Subjects: Coral reefs and islands--Environmental aspects, Human beings--Influence on nature, Malaysia--Description and travel, Travel industry--Environmental aspects
...hotspots. Here they are officially ranked according to threat for the first time: * Philippines * Gulf of Guinea Islands * Sunda islands (Indonesia) * Southern Mascarene islands (near Madagascar) * Eastern South Africa * Northern Indian Ocean...
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Another Year of Living Dangerously?
Magazine article by Rajan Menon; The National Interest, Fall 2001
Subjects: Economic history--Indonesia, Ethnic relations--Indonesia, Indonesia--Economic aspects, Indonesians--Social aspects, Megawati Sukarnoputri--Political activity, Religion--Political aspects, Suharto--Political activity
...state, a sprawling archipelago of 13,600 islands (3,000 of them inhabited) nearly three...constellation--the straits of Malacca, Sunda and Lombok--connect the Asia-Pacific to...impassable or hazardous. By comparison, Sunda is a minor shipping channel; the consequences...
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Dutch Maps and English Ships in the Eastern Seas
Magazine article by Richard Pflederer; History Today, Vol. 44, January 1994
Subjects: Cartography--History, Nautical charts--History, Naval history--17th century, United Kingdom--History, 1603-1714 (Stuarts)
...along the southern coast of Sumatra, through the Straits of Sunda, essentially without landfall until reaching Bantam on the north...Gilolo to Hirado, Saris selected a route skirting the eastern islands of the Philippines. On June 2nd, The Clove sighted an island...
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Volcanoes: They're the Most Powerful Expressions of Nature's Might, Responsible for Mass Extinctions, Global Climate Change and the Demise of Entire Civilisations, but How Much Do We Really Know about Volcanoes? and Just How Close Are We to the Holy Grail of Accurately Predicting When They're Going to Explode?
Magazine article by Charlie Furniss; Geographical, Vol. 79, March 2007
Subjects: Volcanic hotspots--Research, Volcanoes--Economic aspects, Volcanoes--Environmental aspects, Volcanoes--Research, Volcanoes--United States, Volcanological research--Forecasts and trends
...Toronto noticed that the Hawaiian islands lay in a chain that became progressively...Indonesian volcanic island in the Sunda Strait, is perhaps the most...some 40 kilometres across the Sunda Strait in Sumatra, they also...others on Sumatra, Java and other islands in the region. Lahars, or mudflows...
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The Tragedy of St Pierre: One Hundred Years Ago This Month a Volcanic Eruption Obliterated the Most Beautiful City in the Caribbean, Killing All but One of Its Inhabitants. Scientists Would Never Again Underestimate the Power of Volcanoes
Magazine article by James Ferguson; Geographical, Vol. 74, May 2002
Subjects: Martinique--Natural disasters, Volcanoes--History
...3 degrees C as aerosols from the eruption blocked out the sun. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED 2 Krakatau, 1883, Krakatau Islands, Sunda Strait, Indonesia. 36,417 killed by tsunamis. Largest explosion ever heard. Krakatau has erupted 35 times since 1883...
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WILL KRAKATOA ROCK THE WORLD AGAIN? Last Time, It Killed Thousands and Changed the Weather for Five Years. Now It Could Be Even Deadlier
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 31, 2009
Subjects: Lava, Volcanoes, Volcanology, Weather
...200ft above the tropical stillness of the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, one of the most terrifying...where Krakatoa is situated between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian...are getting better at. The people of the Sunda Strait can only hope and pray that, this...
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Confirmed Deaths from Tidal Waves Now over 118,000
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 31, 2004
...the volcano Krakatua in the Sunda Strait near Java on Aug. 27...feet slammed ashore on nearby islands, wiping out coastal communities...tsunami reached the Hawaiian Islands about five hours later, obliterating...Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kuril Islands and other areas of Russias...
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A Year in the Life of A Millennium; X-Rays, Income Tax, the First English Parliament. It's Been a Busy 1,000 Years
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 1, 1999
Subjects: United Kingdom
...the French. 27th, 1883. Krakatoa, a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java erupted, killing 36,000. 28th...rescues the shipwrecked crew of the Forfarshire off the Farne Islands. 8th, 1157. Richard the Lionheart born in Oxford, son of Henry...
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By YUL MALICSE
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 5, 2007
Subjects: United States. Coast Guard
...the ill-fated MB Vir-Anna which sank in the Kalayaan Group of Islands strait last Nov. 22, after it was whipped by strong winds and...Dolompines, Elmer Flores, Philip Visaya, Cito Basaylabi, Justino Sunda, Hinio Cueto, Henry Sandoval, Roger Visaya, Andy Cruzal, Roy...


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encyclopedia articles on: Sunda Islands  - 8 results

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Sunda Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SUNDA ISLANDS sun d , mainly in Indonesia, between...includes two main groups: the Greater Sunda Islands, to which belong the largest islands...other nations wholly or partially in the Sunda Islands. The Sunda Strait, 20 to 65 mi (32...
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Indonesia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...island groups are the Greater Sunda Islands , which include Java , Sumatra...and Sulawesi ; the Lesser Sunda Islands, consisting of Bali , Flores...are raised on some of the Lesser Sunda Islands. Fish are abundant, both in the...
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Nusatenggara
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NUSATENGGARA see Sunda Islands , Indonesia. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Flores , Island, Indonesia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FLORES , island, Indonesia flor es, island, 6,627 sq mi (17,164 sq km), E Indonesia, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands. Flores is heavily wooded, rugged, and mountainous, rising to 7,872 ft (2,399 m); there are active volcanoes. The inhabitants...
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Sumatra
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of Java (across the narrow Sunda Strait). The westernmost and...and is fringed with smaller islands off its western and eastern...gold and silver. Its offshore islands are known for their tin and...officers. It spread to other islands before being quelled by the...
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