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Sunda Islands en · PROPN

Etymology

See Sunda.

Meanings

1. (plural, plural-only) A group of islands in the Malay Archipelago.
   • 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. 1871, W. L. Bevan, The student's manual of modern geography, 2nd edition, John Murray, page 459:
   • On the other hand, the Sunda Islands have been extensively studied, if on a broad scale, and allow us to draw valid comparisons. 1965, Express Translation Service, Jean Aubouin, Geosynclines, Elsevier, page 230:
   • 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. 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:

Forms

Deriveds

Lesser Sunda Islands · Greater Sunda Islands · Sunda Island tiger

Synonyms

Sundas

Translations (8)

de Sundainseln (group of islands) · ro insulele Sunda (group of islands) · cmn 巽他群島 /巽他群岛 (group of islands) · nl Soenda-eilanden (group of islands) · fr îles de la Sonde (group of islands) · nl Sunda-eilanden (group of islands) · it Isole della Sonda (group of islands) · pl Archipelag Sundajski (group of islands)