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 Islands
Barat Daya Islands The Barat Daya Islands (Kepulauan Barat Daya in Indonesia.
Islands District, Hong Kong The Islands District is one of the 18 New Territories.
Kerguelen Islands The Kerguelen Archipelago is in the southern archipelago of 7,215 km².
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 Timor
To its northwest is the island of Sulawesi, and to its west, the island of Sumba.
To the west-northwest of Timor are the islands of Flores and Alor, and to its northeast are the Barat Daya Islands, including Wetar.
Timor, together with the Lesser Sunda Islands to the northwest and the smaller islands to the northeast, is covered by tropical dry broadleaf forests.
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 Sunda Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sunda Islands are a group of islands in the western part of the Malay Archipelago.
The territory of the islands is divided between the present-day countries of Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
The Sundanese are an ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java.
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 TIMOR FACTS AND INFORMATION
Timor is an island at the south of the Malay_Archipelago, divided between the independent state of East_Timor, and West_Timor, part of the Indonesia province of East_Nusa_Tenggara with the surface of 11,883 sq mi/ 30,777 km².
Timor, the Barat Daya Islands, and the smaller islands to the northeast of Timor constitute the Timor_and_Wetar_deciduous_forests ecoregion.
The island has been politically divided in two parts for centuries: West_Timor, which was known as Dutch Timor from the 1800s until 1949 when it became Indonesian Timor, a part of the nation of Indonesia which was formed from the old Netherlands_East_Indies; and East_Timor which was known as Portuguese_Timor from 1596 until 1975.
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 Maluku
Although cultures varied across this dispersed group of islands, there is a sense in which the Moluccas were a cosmopolitan society, in that traders from across the region took residence in Moluccan settlements, or in nearby enclaves, to conduct spice business.
The commencement of Indonesian transmigration of (mainly) Javanese populations to the outer islands (including the Moluccus) during the 1960's is thought to have aggravated independence and issues of religious / ethnic politics.
Its provisional capital is Ternate, on a small island to the west of the large island of Halmahera, although it is not particularly stable.
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 Encyclopedia: Timor
Timor is an island at the south of the Malay Archipelago, divided between the independent state of East Timor, and West Timor, part of the Indonesia province of East Nusa Tenggara with the surface of 11,883 sq mi/ 30,777 km².
Map of Flores Island Flores (Portuguese for flowers) is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14,300 km² extending east from the Java island of Indonesia.
Wetar is an island in Indonesias Barat Daya Islands, separated from the Lesser Sunda Islands by the Wetar Strait.
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 Timor - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Timor is an island at the south of the
To its northwest is the island of Sulawesi, and to its west, the island of
Timor, the Barat Daya Islands, and the smaller islands to the northeast of Timor constitute the
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 Timor : QuicklyFind Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The island has been divided into two parts politically for centuries: West Timor, which was known as Dutch Timor from the 1800s until 1949 when it became Indonesian Timor, a part of the nation of Indonesia which was formed from the old Dutch East Indies.
To the northwest of Timor is the island of Sulawesi.
To the west of Timor is the island of Sumba.
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 Timor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Timor is an island at the south of the Malay Archipelago, divided between the independent state of East Timor, and West Timor, part of the Indonesian province of Nusa Tenggara Timur.
Timor, the Barat Daya Islands, and the smaller islands to the northeast of Timor constitute the Timor and Wetar deciduous forests ecoregion.
But in the year 1637 there took place a great eruption of the mountain, which ended in it being entirely swallowed up, leaving nothing behind it but a lake, in which its fires were quenched, and which now occupies its place.
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 Barat Daya Islands -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Wetar Strait separates Wetar from (An island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the largest and most eastern of the Lesser Sunda Islands) Timor to the south.
The islands, together with Timor, Nusa Tenggara, (A mountainous island in eastern Indonesia) Sulawesi, and most of Maluku, are part of (Click link for more info and facts about Wallacea) Wallacea, the group of Indonesian islands that are separated by deep water from both the Australian and Asian continental shelves.
The Barat Daya Islands, together with Timor, the Leti Islands, and Alor, are designated as the Timor and Wetar deciduous forests (Click link for more info and facts about ecoregion) ecoregion.
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 Banda Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Islands bordering the Banda Sea include Sulawesi to the west, Buru, Ambon Island, Ceram, Aru Islands, Tanimbar Islands, Barat Daya Islands, and Timor.
Although the borders of the sea are hazardous to navigation, with many small rocky islands, the middle of the sea is relatively open.
Island groups within the sea include the Banda Islands.
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 Map of Maluku province in Indonesia Maluku is a province...
The island islands were also historically known as the "Spice Islands Spice Islands" by the Chinese Chinese and European Europeans, but this term has also been applied to other islands.
The vegetation vegetation of the small and narrow islands, encompassed by the sea, is very luxuriant; including rain forests, sago sago, rice rice, and the famous spice spices nutmeg nutmeg, clove cloves, mace mace, and others.
Its provisional capital is Ternate Ternate, on a small island to the west of the large island of Halmahera Halmahera, although it is not particularly stable.
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 Thousand Islands (Indonesia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Thousand Islands (Kepulauan Seribu) are a chain of island located on Jakarta Bay.
The islands are situated 45 km north of Jakarta, Indonesia.
One of the islands, Bidadari Island, is a place to go for fishing or diving.
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 Timor - Gurupedia
Timor is an island at the south of the Malay Archipelago, divided between the independent state of East Timor, and West Timor, part of the
The island has been divided into two parts politically for centuries: West Timor, which was known as Dutch Timor from the 1800s until
Flores and Alor, and to its northeast are the Barat Daya Islands, including Wetar.
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 Maluku Islands - TheBestLinks.com - Australia, American Samoa, Bali, Banda Islands, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For the political entity encompassing the southern portion of the islands, see Maluku (Indonesian province).
The Maluku Islands (also known as the Moluccas, Molucca Islands, Moluccan Islands or simply Maluku) are located on the Australian continental plate, lying east of Sulawesi (Celebes), west of New Guinea, and north of Timor.
Politically, the islands are divided between two Indonesian provinces, Maluku and North Maluku.
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 Wallacea is a biogeographical biogeographical designation for a group of...
The islands of Wallacea lie between Sundaland Sundaland (the Malay Peninsula Malay Peninsula, Sumatra Sumatra, Borneo Borneo, Java Java, and Bali Bali) to the west, and Australia Australia and New Guinea New Guinea to the south and east.
Wallacea includes the islands of Nusa Tenggara Nusa Tenggara, which include Lombok Lombok, Komodo Komodo, Flores Flores, and Sumba Sumba; Timor Timor; Sulawesi Sulawesi; the islands of North Maluku North Maluku, including Halmahera Halmahera; and most of the province of Maluku Maluku, excluding the Aru Islands Aru Islands, which lie on the Australian continental shelf.
Timor and Wetar deciduous forests Timor and Wetar deciduous forests (Timor Timor, Barat Daya Islands Barat Daya Islands, Banda Islands Banda Islands, Babar Island Babar Island, Leti Islands Leti Islands)
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 Barat Daya Islands - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Barat Daya Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Barat Daya Islands - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Barat Daya Islands.
Here you will find more informations about Barat Daya Islands.
The orginal Barat Daya Islands article can be editet
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 Silolona - Indonesian Explorer
The bejeweled islands of Indonesia stretching east from Bali to the Barat Daya Islands are known as Nusa Tenggara.
The water around the Komodo and Rinca islands are speckled with small islands ringed with beautiful coral reefs.
The Komodo and Rinca islands are the largest of about 80 islands that lie in between the larger islands of Sumbawa to the west and Flores in the east.
www.indonesianexplorer.com /S_Nusa.php   (299 words)

  
 The world's top maluku websites
Peaceful conversion to Islam occurred in many islands, especially in centres of trade, while aboriginal animism persisted in the hinterlands and more isolated islands.
One Portuguese diary noted that 'it is thirty years since they became Moors' - giving a sense of the competition then taking place between Arabic and European influence in the region.
Among other events of the 17th century, the Dutch East India Company clamped down on emerging commercial relationships between Bandanese and the British by decimating the native population of the Banda Islands and installing slave labour.
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 ipedia.com: Islands of Indonesia Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Indonesia is an archipelago made of 18,108 islands, whereof about 6,000 are inhabited.
Major islands of Indonesia : Greater Sunda Islands Borneo, the third largest island in the world Java Sulawesi Su...
Indonesia is an archipelago made of 18,108 islands (latest satellite images), whereof about 6,000 are inhabited.
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 Jillian Michaels . Hamtaro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Already in Roman days, the island was the point of departure for ships going to England and it had a temple of the goddess Nehalennia who was popular with those who wished to brave the waters of the North Sea.
The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships DANFS for short is the primary reference work for the basic facts about every ship ever used by the United States Navy.
The United Kingdom UK is a tax haven for people of foreign domicile, even if they are UK resident residence and domicile being separate legal concepts in the UK, in that they pay no tax on foreign income not remitted to the UK.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Maluku is a province of Indonesia, comprising, broadly, the southern part of the Maluku Islands (also known as the Moluccas, Molucca Islands or Moluccan Islands).
All the Maluku Islands formed a single province of Indonesia from 1950 until 1999.
The Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusa Tenggara): Bali
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 Islands on the Air - Short Listing of Island Groups
Islands on the Air - Short Listing of Island Groups
This page allows you to display the name and reference number of all IOTA island groups, continent by continent.
You may click on an island's reference number to see fuller information.
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 Asean News Network: Aceh - Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Aceh (pronounced Ah-chay) is a special territory (daerah istimewa, or "special area") of Indonesia, located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra.
Most of the rest of the western coast, and outlying islands, were severely damaged, and many towns were said to have completely disappeared.
The major ethnic groups are the Acehnese (who are distributed throughout Aceh), Gayo (in Aceh Tengah and some parts of Aceh Timur, Bener Meriah and Gayo Lues); Alas (in Aceh Tenggara); Tamiang (in Aceh Tamiang); Aneuk Jamee (concentrated in Aceh Selatan and Aceh Barat Daya); Kluet (in Aceh Selatan) and Simeulue (on Simeulue Island).
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 Islands on the Air - Search Island Reference
Islands on the Air - Search Island Reference
This is a new reference, so no number is allocated to it.
No previous activations have been found in the database.
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 Menu des Îles
The form below, allows you to make a crossed search between a geographic region and the geologic type of the islands soil.
You can select only one geographic criterion at the same time.
Hunter, Matthew and Walpole Islands (F) Ihla da Trindade (BR)
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 Earthquakes: KEPULAUAN BARAT DAYA, INDONESIA: 5.9 Earthquake :6/20/2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Earthquakes: KEPULAUAN BARAT DAYA, INDONESIA: 5.9 Earthquake :6/20/2003
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