Sumbawa
Americannoun
noun
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The true cause of the Year Without Summer lay half a world away on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2016
It lay atop the tropic isle of Sumbawa, its spires rising nearly three miles.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2015
After being rescued, the girls spent the night on the nearby uninhabited volcanic island, where they were given food and water by fishermen, before they were taken to Bima in Sumbawa.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2014
At Bima, on the northeast coast of Sumbawa about forty miles east of Tambora, the British resident reported that the blasts sounded like “a heavy mortar fired close to his ear.”
From Scientific American ● Mar. 1, 2013
The Spaniards contented themselves with the Philippines, but the Dutch, more enterprising, as well as more ambitious, extended their conquests to Sumatra, Java, the Moluccas, and recently to Bali, Sumbawa, Timor and Celebes.
From The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe by John Russell Bartlett
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