Malay Archipelago

American  

noun

1. an extensive island group in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, southeast of Asia, including the Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands, the Moluccas, and the Philippines.

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Malay Archipelago British  

noun

1. a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, between SE Asia and Australia: the largest group of islands in the world; includes over 3000 Indonesian islands, about 7000 islands of the Philippines, and, sometimes, New Guinea

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Example Sentences

Wallace traveled to Brazil to collect insects in the Amazon rainforest from 1848 to 1852 and to the Malay Archipelago from 1854 to 1862.

From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018

After relieving the Tring’s drawers of 98 cotingas, he carefully shut the cabinets to avoid arousing the suspicion of the museum staff and made his way to the birds of the Malay Archipelago.

From National Geographic • Apr. 23, 2018

Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace delivered the first scientific accounts of their behaviours in his 1869 book The Malay Archipelago.

From Nature • Apr. 16, 2018

The process starts with surface water, propelled westward across the ocean by trade winds and heated by the sun as it travels, running into the Philippines, the Malay Archipelago and New Guinea.

From Economist • Aug. 20, 2015

It comprises numerous species, a considerable proportion of which occur in the islands of the Malay Archipelago.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various