Sunda Islands

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See Sunda.

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Sunda Islands pl (plural only)

  1. A group of islands in the Malay Archipelago.
    • 1871, W. L. Bevan, The student's manual of modern geography, 2nd edition, John Murray, page 459:
      The Sunda Islands are divided into two groups, the Greater Sunda Islands — viz., Sumatra, and Java, with their dependencies; and the Lesser Sunda Islands, comprising all that lie E. of Java, Timor being the chief.
    • 1965, Express Translation Service, Jean Aubouin, Geosynclines, Elsevier, page 230:
      On the other hand, the Sunda Islands have been extensively studied, if on a broad scale, and allow us to draw valid comparisons.
    • 2006, Terry Harrison, John Krigbaum, Jessica Manser, “Chapter 12: Primate Biogeography and Ecology on the Sunda Shelf Islands”, in Shawn M. Lehman, John G. Fleagle, editors, Primate Biogeography: Progress and Prospects, Springer, page 332:
      It is also likely that Nasalis larvatus (Borneo) and Simias concolor (Mentawai Islands) were already present as endemic taxa in the Late Pliocene, and that their last common ancestor had arrived in the Sunda islands by the early Pliocene.

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