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	Greater Sunda Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Greater Sunda Islands are a group of islands on the western part of the Malay Archipelago.
		Islands included in the group are Borneo, Java, Sulawesi and Sumatra.
		They can be contrasted with the Lesser Sunda Islands to the east, and together with them make up the Sunda Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greater_Sunda_Islands (107 words)

	Sunda Islands - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		SUNDA ISLANDS [Sunda Islands], 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).
		Island of Sunda Strait, between Java & Sumatra.The active volcano Krakatau, since its 1992 eruption.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-sundai1sl.html (292 words)

	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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sunda_Islands (93 words)

	Republic of Indonesia - MSN Encarta
		A stretch of mostly open water consisting of the Java, Flores, and Banda seas divides the major islands of Indonesia into two unequal strings: in the south, the long, narrow islands of Sumatra, Java, Timor, and others; and in the north, the islands of Sulawesi, the Moluccas (Spice Islands), and New Guinea.
		A land bridge once joined the islands of the Sunda Shelf; consequently, they still have plants and animals in common and are part of the Indo-Malayan zoogeographic region.
		The British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace drew attention in the mid-19th century to the great contrasts between the Sunda and Sahul, illustrating his case with the differences between the ecologies of the islands of Bali and Lombok.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573214/Republic_of_Indonesia.html (1860 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Sunda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sunda Islands SUNDA ISLANDS [Sunda Islands], mainly in Indonesia, between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, comprising the western part of the Malay Archipelago.
		Krakatoa KRAKATOA [Krakatoa] or Krakatau, volcanic island, c.5 sq mi (13 sq km), W Indonesia, in Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra; rising to 2,667 ft (813 m).
		Flores FLORES [Flores], island, 6,627 sq mi (17,164 sq km), E Indonesia, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Sunda (484 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Sunda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sunda Shelf, part of the continental shelf of Southeast Asia, covered by the South China Sea which isolates islands such as Borneo, Sumatra and Java
		Kingdom of Sunda, a kingdom that existed in west part of Java from the 7th century to the 16th century
		Sunda (clan), a clan (gotra) of Jats in India
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Sunda (155 words)

	Scholastic News: News
		Descendants of the earliest inhabitants of the islands live mainly in Irian Jaya (the western portion of the island of New Guinea).
		The four major islands, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and Celebes, belong to the group known as the Greater Sunda Islands.
		On an island in the Sunda Strait, which separates Java from Sumatra, is the volcano known as Krakatau (Krakatoa).
	teacher.scholastic.com /scholasticnews/indepth/indonesia_groliertext.asp (2782 words)

	Indonesia - GEOGRAPHY
		Two of the islands are shared with other nations; Kalimantan (known in the colonial period as Borneo, the world's third largest island) is shared with Malaysia and Brunei, and Irian Jaya shares the island of New Guinea with Papua New Guinea.
		The outer arc of Nusa Tenggara is a geological extension of the chain of islands west of Sumatra that includes Nias, Mentawai, and Enggano.
		This chain resurfaces in Nusa Tenggara in the ruggedly mountainous islands of Sumba and Timor.
	countrystudies.us /indonesia/28.htm (820 words)

	Law on remote islands
		Islands born of natural fury of unimaginable power give rise to societies that must deal with those who are drawn to island life and the hidden human forces set free by isolation.
		The Coral Island was based on the settlement of Pitcairn’s Island by the mutineers of the Bounty in 1790 and the settlement of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic in the same year.
		Although the Coral Island boys did not encounter them until they had ventured to an adjacent inhabited island as the captives of pirates, the ubiquitous presence of missionaries as “civilizing” influences on the native population is a feature of the novel.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/lsf/bockrath27.htm (18059 words)

	Instant Indonesia: Geography of Indonesia
		The number of islands in the Indonesian archipelago is disputed, but a commonly cited figure is 13 667, of which about 6000 are inhabited.
		The archipelago is divided into the Greater Sunda islands, the Smaller Sunda islands and East Indonesia, roughly.
		These islands used to go under the name of Spice Islands because of the Portuguese trade there in the 16th century.
	home.swipnet.se /zabonk/indons/instant/geograph.htm (346 words)

	WWF - Greater Sundas Mangroves - A Global Ecoregion
		The Sunda Islands extend from the Malay Peninsula toward New Guinea.
		Some of the islands are large and known as the "Greater Sundas", including Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Sulawesi, while Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, and Flores make up the "Lesser Sundas".
		One of the most diverse and extensive of its kind in the world, Greater Sundas Mangroves support numerous habitats and species.
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/greater_sundas_mangroves.cfm (295 words)

	Exploring Indonesia: Past and Present
		Today the waters which cover the Sunda Shelf are quite shallow, and the mountains which rise from the bottom of the shelf emerge from the sea to form some of the largest and most important of the Indonesian islands, including Sumatra, Java, Madura, and Borneo.
		These islands belong to Western Indonesia, and along with the island of Sulawesi, are often referred to as the Greater Sunda Islands.
		The island contains a great deal of diversity in its geography, ranging from tropical rain forest in the lowlands to alpine scrub on the highest mountains, several of which rise above 15,000 feet and are permanently covered in snow.
	www.hawaii.edu /cseas/pubs/indonesia/indonesia.html (14573 words)

	RedOrbit - Images Of The Day - The Lesser Sunda Islands
		This MODIS Terra image shows the Lesser Sunda Islands, which form the southern border of Indonesia with Australia and stretch for 1,200 kilometers from the western island of Lombok on the left to the eastern tip of Timor, the largest island in the image.
		The islands lie in the Indian Ocean and are a group of islands in the middle-south part of the Malay Archipelago.
		Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up the Sunda Islands.
	www.redorbit.com /images/images-of-the-day/img/12740/the_lesser_sunda_islands/index.html?source=r_earthiod (188 words)

	Treasures of the Philippines
		In geologic and biogeographic terms, Palawan is not part of the Philippines but of the Greater Sunda Islands (Borneo, Java and Sumatra), which were at times dry-land extensions of the Indochina-Malay region.
		Aside from evolutionary mechanisms promoting speciation in the rain forests, the partitioning of the Philippines into islands separated by sea barriers has contributed to the formation of endemic species (those that are unique to some specific area) through geographic isolation, thus preventing interbreeding.
		On large islands, populations have been isolated on mountain peaks separated by swaths of lowlands that also prevented gene flow.
	www.fieldmuseum.org /vanishing_treasures/foreword.htm (1102 words)

	Indonesia islands links
		Smaller Sunda Islands consists of the string of small islands that stretch out to the east from Java all the way to Irian Jaya.
		Greater Sunda Islands consists of Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and a couple of thousand more islands in the Indonesian archipelago.
		On these islands, mainly Java and Sumatra, you find the bulk of the population.
	home.swipnet.se /zabonk/indons/bagus/island.htm (454 words)

	Indonesia Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
		The fifth-most populous country in the world, Indonesia comprises more than 13,000 islands extending c.3,000 mi/4,830 km along the equator from the Malaysia mainland toward Australia; the archipelago forms a natural barrier between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
		A popular revolt, stemming from a desire for greater autonomy, began on Sumatra early in 1958 and spread to Sulawesi (Celebes) and other islands; the disorders led to increasingly authoritarian rule by Sukarno, who dissolved (1960) the parliament and reinstated the constitution of 1945, which had provided for a strong, independent executive.
		Notable among the many state universities scattered throughout the islands are the University of Indonesia, at Jakarta; the Bandung Technology Institute, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious universities; Airlangga Surabaya University, at Surabaya; Gadjah Mada University, at Yogyakarta; and the University of North Sumatra, at Medan.
	www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Indonesia.html (2147 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The most important islands, culturally and economically, are Java, Bali, and Sumatra.
		All the larger islands have a central volcanic mountainous area flanked by coastal plains; there are more than 100 active volcanoes.
		Notable among the many state universities scattered throughout the islands are the Univ. of Indonesia, at Jakarta; the Bandung Technology Institute, at Bandung; Airlangga Univ., at Surabaya; Gadjah Mada Univ., at Yogyakarta; and the Univ. of North Sumatra, at Medan.
	www.greatestcities.com /talkread.bml?journal=gikky&itemid=9025 (383 words)

	Today In WW II History - Topic Powered by eve community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Japanese campaign of 1942 that succeeded in seizing the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska was partly a feint, partly a serious probe of American defenses, and partly a move to prevent the United States from invading the Japanese homeland through the Aleutian and Kurile Islands.
		These two islands were also on the supply route to Australia and were being used as a staging area for a counterthrust by the Allies against Japanese forces in the Southwest Pacific.
		The island of Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides was closest in proximity to Japanese-held Guadalcanal and, thus, rapidly assumed major importance.
	forums.ubi.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/23110283/m/1771097952/p/27 (13519 words)

	Green coffee beans - Celebes \| U-Roast-Em
		The islands of Indonesia can be divided into three groups; the greater Sunda islands, the Lesser Sunda Islands and the Moluccas.
		The island consists of four finger-like mountainous peninsulas, with the highest point reaching 11,336 ft. Sulawesi, just each of Borneo, is Indonesia’s most mountainous island.
		The Sulawesi available at U-Roast-Em.com is from Toraja, a mountainous area near the center of the island and the oldest coffee-growing region on the island.
	www.u-roast-em.com /coffee-beans-celebes.html (490 words)

	Alluring Asia - Your Southeast Asia Travel Specialist - Country Guide for Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world with a total of 18,000 plus islands of which only about 6,000 are inhabited.
		The main islands are: Sumatra, Java (the most populated), Kalimantan (Borneo), Sulawesi (Celebes), and Irian Jaya (Western portion of New Guinea).
		Krakatau - most famous is an island volcano located in the Sunda Straight between Java and Sumatra.
	www.alluringasia.com /cg_indonesia.shtml (766 words)

	Belmont Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This "green water" generally is described as being encompassed within an arc swung from Vladivostok to the north, to the Strait of Malacca to the south, and out to the "first island chain" (Aleutians, Kuriles, Ryukyus, Taiwan, Philippines, and Greater Sunda islands) to the east.
		These are very same island chains which so preoccupied the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War and for exactly the same reasons.
		The devil in the proposition is that as long as China is seen as representing a threat to Japan, any attempts to reach out to "the first island chain" (which includes the Aleutians) and the "second island chain" (which includes the Bonins, which is Japanese territory) will bring a reaction from Nippon.
	belmontclub.blogspot.com /2005/04/big-trouble-in-little-china-2-once.html (531 words)

	AsianMall: Asia Resource Center
		Almost 75 percent of Indonesia's area is included in the three largest islands of Borneo, of which about three-quarters, or 212,000 square miles, is part of Indonesia; Sumatra, with 186,000 square miles; and the Irian Jaya portion of New Guinea, with 162,000 square miles.
		Nearly all of the total land area is accounted for with the addition of Celebes (75,100 square miles) and Java and the Moluccas (83,400 square miles).
		Indonesia was formerly known as the Dutch, or Netherlands, East Indies; the islands were first named Indonesia in modern times by a German geographer in 1884, although this name is thought to derive from Indos Nesos, "Indian Islands," in the ancient trading language of the region.
	www.asianmall.com /amall/arc/business/index_indonesia.shtml (545 words)

	Dwarf Kayuadi Reticulated Pythons
		However, there are hundreds of tiny islands in the vicinity of this larger Island and therefore it makes more sense that these Retics were collected on a few of these neighboring places.
		This Sunda Island chain is located South of the Greater Sunda Islands (Sulawesi) and north of the Lesser Sundas (Komodo and Timor) in the Flores Sea of South East Indonesia.The Retics that inhabit these islands are the smallest Retics in the world.
		These Islands are part of the Sunda Islands in South East Indonesia.
	www.cuttingedgeherp.com /dwarfretics/list.nhtml (433 words)

	lies' family history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The fourth most populous country in the world, Indonesia comprises more than 13,000 islands extending 3,000 miles (4,830 km) along the equator from the Malaysia mainland toward Australia; the archipelago forms a natural barrier between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
		A popular revolt, stemming from a desire for greater autonomy, began on Sumatra early in 1958 and spread to Sulawesi and other islands.
		His government reinstated an earlier Dutch colonial policy of "transmigration", in which farmers from the overpopulated islands of Java and Bali were moved to under populated areas such Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Irian Jaya.
	www.lmberault.com /lies'_family_history.htm (2349 words)

	Amazon.com: Sunda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sunda and Sahul: Prehistoric studies in Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia (Unknown Binding - 1977)
		Phylogeography of the freckled python (Liasis mackloti) of Indonesia's lesser sundas archipelago based on multiple character analyses.
		The lesser Sunda Islands: MPs provide security for a ship off the coast of East Timor: An article from: Leatherneck by Kenneth L Hinson (Sep 30, 2001)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&platform=gurupa&keywords=Sunda&search-type=ss&tag=vepoware14-20&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (346 words)

	Sunda Islands
		Offshore islands and maritime explorations in Australian prehistory.
		Continuity in tropical cave use: examples from East Timor and the Aru Islands, Maluku.
		Bird communities in transition: the Lago Guri islands.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0847222.html (292 words)

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