Sunda Strait

Around 100 asylum seekers from Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran were detained by Indonesian police off the Sunda Strait.

Photos of the Day: May 27 2011

The terrestrial vertebrate fauna of the Krakatau Islands, Sunda Strait, 1883-1986.

Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia 2009

It's quiet now, and the law, British and Dutch, runs from Sunda Strait to the Solomons; the coasts are tamed, the last trophy heads in the long-houses are ancient and shrivelled, 13 and there's hardly a man alive who can say he's heard the war gongs booming as the great robber fleets swept down from the Sulu Sea.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

Sunda Strait meant a voyage via the Cape of Good Hope.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

We had the misfortune to run into a storm in the Sunda Strait.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

He stopped short then and looked away as if through the bulkhead and over the sea as far, perhaps, as Sunda Strait, and the long line of Sunda

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

When we had swept by them, running before the wind, some one called after us in a small, far-off voice, "We'll see you yet in Sunda Strait."

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

"Yes," said Roger, "I shall go home by way of Sunda Strait."

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

"Why should I not go home by way of Sunda Strait?"

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

We now faced Sunda Strait, the channel that separates Java from Sumatra and unites the Indian Ocean with the Java Sea.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes