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	Sunda Islands - LoveToKnow 1911
		SUNDA ISLANDS, the collective name of the islands in the Malay Archipelago which extend from the Malay Peninsula to the Moluccas.
		Sunda Strait is the channel separating Sumatra from Java and uniting the Indian Ocean with the Java Sea.
		In 1883 Sunda Strait was the scene of the most terrific results of the eruption of Krakatoa, a volcanic island further west in the strait.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sunda_Islands (172 words)

	Sunda Islands - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		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-sundaisl.html (306 words)

	The Japanese occupation of Lesser Sunda Islands, 1942
		The Japanese occupation of Lesser Sunda Islands, 1942
		Bali Island was originally not a target in the Netherlands East Indies Campaign, but as the airfields on Borneo (Bandjermasin) were inoperative due to heavy rains and considering the fact that Bali Island didn't have that kind of rainfall, it was soon decided by the Imperial Japanese Army to occupy the island.
		The operation in the Lesser Sunda Islands was considered completed on 25 May and all participating elements with the exception of the 1st Yokosuka SNLF returned to their parent organizations.
	www.geocities.com /dutcheastindies/lesser_sunda.html (1241 words)

	LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS - KEPULAUAN NUSA TENGGARA
		The northern part of the island is mountainous and lush with tall trees and shrubs.
		The islands of east Nusa Tenggara have been shaped by the power and force of an enormous chain of volcanoes which begins in the north of Sumatra and stretches east across Java, the legendary 'Ring of Fire'.
		Timor is the largest island in the province in terms of population and it is here that the provincial capital of Kupang is located.
	www.indonesia-tourism.com /nusa-tenggara/index.html (1101 words)

	indahnesia.com - Nusa Tenggara - Islands with vulcanos and corals - Discover Indonesia Online
		Nusa Tenggara forms the cental chain in the vast Indonesian chain of islands: it connects the Bigger Sunda Islands in the west with the Maluku islands and Papua in the east.
		The eruption of Gunung Tambora, on the island of Sumbawa, from 5-7 April 1815 was the biggest of the modern geological era.
		On the northern islands, winds are refreshing the biggest part of the year, at least along the coast; the strongest wind blow from June until September, and quiet from December until March.
	indahnesia.com /indonesia/NUTGEO/geology.php (1917 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 /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761573214&ENCMauth=1/eHK6c5WMGFraMMT1w07RJCoGh8yx1ZWNH9K6kgu2V8sy13T/ccY9deBNiihtf/WpcLPekSpB8= (1851 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Sunda
		Sunda Islands, mainly in Indonesia, between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, comprising the western part of the Malay Archipelago.
		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, island, 6,627 sq mi (17,164 sq km), E Indonesia, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Sunda (526 words)

	Hobson Jobson Dictionary
		The western and most mountainous part of the island of Java, in which a language different from the proper Javanese is spoken, and the people have many differences of manners, indicating distinction of race.
		In the 16th century, Java and Sunda being often distinguished, a common impression grew up that they were separate islands; and they are so represented in some maps of the 16th century, just as some medieval maps, including that of Fra Mauro (1459), show a like separation between England and Scotland.
		The Sunda country is considered to extend from the extreme western point of the island to Cheribon, i.e.
	dsal.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.2:1:230.hobson (565 words)

	History of the Lesser Sunda Islands
		This was when the island of Timor functioned as the source for the original stock of sandalwood trees established in India (or possibly China) and thereafter developed as an important commercial tree.
		The trees grow on some of the islands, mostly on Timor Island and previously in Sumba, and the quality is still judged superlative.
		After Indonesian independence, the area became part of the Provinces of the Lesser Sunda Islands, and changed its name to the Province of Nusa Tenggara with the capital in Singaraja, Bali.
	www.raijua.com /lesser_sunda.htm (833 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 TSUNAMI - THE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI OF 19 AUGUST 1977 IN INDONESIA - Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis
		THE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI OF AUGUST 19, 1977 IN THE LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS OF INDONESIA
		The earthquake of August 19, 1977 in the vicinity of the Lesser Sunda Islands generated a major destructive tsunami.
		The Sunda Arc consists of three primary segments: the Sumatra segment, the Sunda Strait Segment and the Java Segment.
	www.drgeorgepc.com /Tsunami1977Indonesia.html (2014 words)

	A Guide to the Birds of Wallacea: Sulawesi, The Moluccas and Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia Auk, The - Find Articles
		Wallacea is a myriad of about 13,500 islands stretching more than 5,000 km, located between the subcontinent of India and adjacent parts of Asia to the east (Borneo to the Philippines) and the Australia/New Guinea region to the west.
		Lombok is also part of the Lesser Sundas and forms the western margin of Wallacea, being separated from Bali (not part of Wallacea) by only 32 km across a deep oceanic trench; the two small islands are thus on either side of the famous Wallace's Line.
		The larger continental islands on the Sunda Shelf to the west of Bali (Java and Sumatra) were part of Laurasia and largely contain birds from the Oriental region.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3793/is_199807/ai_n8798565 (918 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)

	SUNDA ISLANDS - Online Information article about SUNDA ISLANDS
		SUNDA ISLANDS, the collective name of the islands in the See also:
		Billiton, with their adjacent islands—and the Little Sunda Islands, of which the more important are See also:
		Sunda Strait is the channel separating Sumatra from Java and uniting the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /STE_SUS/SUNDA_ISLANDS.html (238 words)

	Funagain Games: Sunda to Sahul
		Sunda to Sahul is actually a family of games, that can be played solitaire, or by up to four people.
		At its heart, Sunda is a competitive jigsaw puzzle: it comes with 136 wooden jigsaw pieces that show bits of tropical islands and their coastline, and that can be assembled in a variety of ways.
		Sunda to Sahul is one of the most innovative, original games I have played this year.
	www.funagain.com /control/product/~product_id=14397/~affiliate_id=LUDI (3121 words)

	ASM - 15 December 2005
		The arc is marked by a string of volcanos that has produced the islands of Sumatra and Java, and the Sunda Strait and the Lesser Sunda Islands.
		It marks an active convergent boundary between the East Eurasian plates that underlie Indonesia — especially the Sunda Plate and the Burma Plate — with the India and Australian Plates that form the seabed of the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal.
		We assumed that the earthquake, measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, occured between the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Island.
	www.asmmag.com /ASM/content/2005/ASM_027/main_news_7.html (791 words)

	Bali Sail Cruises & Yacht Charter - Balicruises.com
		The islands around Komodo are also the only place in the world where you can still see large, fierce reptiles, descendants of the carnivorous Dinosaurs which survived only here on these islands from the Jurassic age over 130 million years ago.
		Lombok, Sumba, Sumbawa, Flores, Timor, and many smaller islands including Komodo are known as the "Lesser Sunda Islands" and are part of the fabled "Spice Islands" of Indonesia – the habitat of exotic wildlife such as the Bird of Paradise and the ancient Komodo Dragon.
		These islands are in stark contrast to refined and polished Bali with its lush tropical vegetation, manicured landscape and hand-carved rice terraces.
	www.balicruises.com /sea/index.html (515 words)

	Geomorphology: Chapter 3 Plate V-25
		Java, the main island of the Indonesian archipelago, is a prime example of an island arc terrane that is still in process of evolution (Hamilton, 1979).
		The main islands, including Java, are relatively recent uplifts of geosynclinal sediments, deposited on older terrane, that continue to emerge on the Asian mainland side of the southernmost segment of the Eurasian Plate now being underthrust by the Indian/Australian plate.
		Sunda Quaternary Volcanic Arc: In hinge zone between (2) and (4); intermediate to silicic calc-alkaline volcanic suites; began in Mid-Pleistocene.
	daac.gsfc.nasa.gov /geomorphology/GEO_3/GEO_PLATE_V-26.shtml (688 words)

	The Great Earthquake and Tsunami of 26 December 2004 in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean - Prelimiminary Report by ...
		The major tectonic feature in the region is the Sunda Arc that extends approximately 5,600 km between the Andaman Islands in the northwest and the Banda Arc in the east.
		Map of Sumatra showing Simeulue Island to the west near the epicenter of the 26 December 2004 earthquake where uplift and elongation of the island were observed and reported.
		Entire islands have been The waves literally washed away some of these islands, and there were reports that the island of Trinket had split in two.
	www.drgeorgepc.com /Tsunami2004Indonesia.html (6022 words)

	Global Volcanism Program - Volcanoes of the World - Volcanoes of Indonesia and the Andaman Islands
		Britain took temporary control of the islands in the early 19th century, but the Dutch returned and unrest marked much of the century.
		The disastrous Krakatau eruption of 1883 was followed by several devastating eruptions on other islands and in 1921 a Volcano Survey was established by the government, leading to much improved volcano monitoring and reporting.
		The islands were occupied by Japan from early 1942, and WW-II was followed by a 4-year war of independence, with sovereignty gained at the end of 1949.
	hrw.com /science/si-science/earth/tectonics/volcano/volcano/region06 (571 words)

	Komodo Island \| About Komodo National Park
		Komodo National Park is located between the islands of Sumbawa and Flores in the Lesser Sunda Islands, at a distance of 200 nautical miles to the east of Bali.
		Komodo island is 35km long and 15km wide, and is mountainous on a north to south axis, with an average altitude of 500-600m.
		Most of the island is lontar palm savannah with remnates of rainforest and bamboo forest at higher elevations.
	www.komodo-gateway.org /park.html (483 words)

	Untitled Document
		The islands of Java, Sumatra, and Kalimantan, and the small islands in-between, lie on the Sunda Shelf which begin on the coasts of Malaysia and Indo China, where the sea depth does not exceed 700 feet.
		During this period the islands of Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan and Bali on the Sunda Shelf were joined together with one another and with the Asian mainland, but Irian Jaya, Aru and the Australian continent of the Sahul Shelf were separated.
		In 1527 Sunda Kelapa was conquered by Falatehan, and Islamic troop commander of the sultanate of Demak.
	www.un.int /indonesia/Indonesia/Indonesia/indoninfo.html (8814 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The island of Padar and part of Rinca were first protected in 1938 when they were established as nature reserves (Auffenburg, 1981) and extended in 1965 when Komodo Island was gazetted under Ministerial Decree No. 66.
		To the east, Padar is a small, narrow island the topography of which rises steeply from the surrounding plains to between 200m and 300m.
		The topography of the southern part of the island is dominated by the 667m Doro Ora massif, while to the north the steep-sided peaks of Gunung Tumbah and Doro Raja rise to 187m and 351m, respectively.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/wh/komodo.html (2290 words)

	ALFRED
		This is an island group (Lesser Sunda Islands), which is located in Indonesia.
		These islands are part of the Nusa Tengarra (Lesser Sunda Islands), which is an island group located in Indonesia.
		This island is part of the Nusa Tengarra (Lesser Sunda Islands), which is an island group located in Indonesia.
	alfred.med.yale.edu /alfred/recordinfo.asp?UNID=PO000379T (540 words)

	Portuguese in Indonesia the Moluccas and Lesser Sunda islands. Ternate,Tidore,Ambon,Banda,Solor,Ende,Timor.
		The Portuguese settlements in the Lesser Sunda islands and in the Moluccas (1500-1600).
		In the island of Ende Minor the friar built a fort (1595), and, within its walls, was built the church of São Domingos.
		This was the center of the Portuguese in the Lesser Sunda island up to 1662 when the headquarters were moved to Lifau (today Ocussi in Timor).
	www.colonialvoyage.com /ternate.html (1980 words)

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