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

“It is the very country that would promise most for a naturalist,” he would later write in “The Malay Archipelago.”

From New York Times

An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the location of an 1855 expedition by Alfred Russel Wallace as Africa; it was the Malay Archipelago.

From Washington Post

“Pugilist,” though its combatants are products of Mason’s imagination, was in part inspired by Mason’s reading of 19th-century magazine accounts of boxing matches, and “Wallace” by Mason’s reading of Wallace’s “Malay Archipelago.”

From New York Times

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise: a narrative of travel with studies of man and nature.

From The Guardian

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