Sarawak
a state in the federation of Malaysia, on NW Borneo: formerly a British crown colony (1946–63) and British protectorate (1888–1946). About 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km). Capital: Kuching.
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This is exactly what Greg Gray and his team from Duke University did in their search for undiscovered coronaviruses in rural Sarawak, Malaysia, a known “hot spot” for zoonotic spillover.
The Next Pandemic Is Already Happening – Targeted Disease Surveillance Can Help Prevent It | LGBTQ-Editor | June 7, 2021 | No Straight NewsThere is a fort in Sibu, as indeed there is at most of the river places in Sarawak.
Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines | H. Wilfrid WalkerSeveral years ago the Rajah of Sarawak decreed that no one should collect orchids in his territory, for sale, without a license.
The Woodlands Orchids | Frederick BoyleThe village stands on the river Sarawak, and at any moment of the day a sampan can be hired to take one thither.
The Woodlands Orchids | Frederick BoyleSome years afterwards, a young clerk in the service of a German firm at Singapore, visited Sarawak on his holiday.
The Woodlands Orchids | Frederick Boyle
After one night there it moved for the next night to bivouacs known as Sarawak Camp, in the woods north of Poperinghe.
British Dictionary definitions for Sarawak
/ (səˈrɑːwək) /
a state of Malaysia, on the NW coast of Borneo on the South China Sea: granted to Sir James Brooke by the Sultan of Brunei in 1841 as a reward for helping quell a revolt; mainly agricultural. Capital: Kuching. Pop: 2 071 506 (2000). Area: about 124 449 sq km (48 050 sq miles)
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