Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A group of islands of the western Malay Archipelago between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. The Greater Sunda Islands include Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and Sulawesi; the Lesser Sunda Islands lie east of Java and extend from Bali to Timor. Sumatra and Java are separated by the Sunda Strait, a narrow channel linking the Indian Ocean with the Java Sea.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago
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Examples
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It is possible that the word originally was used by town-dwellers on Java to describe savage forest tribes of the Sunda Islands and that Europeans misunderstood it to mean the ape.
WHAT'S FOR DINNER? A CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO ORANGU-TANS News from Mad Plato 2008
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It is possible that the word originally was used by town-dwellers on Java to describe savage forest tribes of the Sunda Islands and that Europeans misunderstood it to mean the ape.
Archive 2008-05-01 News from Mad Plato 2008
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J. van Toch, what he thought of this Tana Masa where you've just dropped anchor he would first curse for a short while and then he would tell you that it's the dirtiest hole all the Sunda Islands, even more loathsome than Tana Bala and easily as damnable as Pini or Banyak; that the only apology for a human being that lives there
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Following the conclusion of a military truce, the Dutch and Indonesians initialed the CHERIBON AGREEMENT providing for Dutch recognition of the Indonesian Republic (Java, Sumatra, and Madura) and the establishment of the United States of Indonesia, to include, besides the Indonesian Republic, the states of Borneo and the Great East (Celebes, the Sunda Islands, and the Moluccas).
4. Indonesia 2001
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Sunda Islands at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago; note
The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Sunda Islands at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago; note
The 2005 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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The Indian Ocean formed a continent which extended from the Sunda Islands along the southern coast of Asia to the east coast of Africa.
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot
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Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands, having Malacca on the north,
Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century George Forbes
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But there are a number of circumstances (especially chorological facts) which suggest that the primeval home of man was a continent now sunk below the surface of the Indian Ocean, which extended along the south of Asia, as it is at present (and probably in direct connection with it), towards the east, as far as Further India and the Sunda Islands; towards the west, as far as Madagascar and the south-eastern shores of Africa.
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot
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The Moluccas and lesser Sunda Islands just west of New Guinea were stated by De Quatrefages in 1887 (Les Pygmées) to be inhabited by
Negritos of Zambales William Allan Reed
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