Sunda Islands

American  

[suhn-duh ahy-luhndz, soon-dah] / ˈsʌn də ˈaɪ ləndz, ˈsun dɑ /

Also Soenda Islands

plural noun

1. a chain of islands in the Malay Archipelago, including Borneo, Sulawesi, Sumatra, and Java Greater Sunda Islands; and a group of smaller islands extending E from Java to Timor Lesser Sunda Islands.

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Sunda Islands British  

/ ˈsʌndə /

plural noun

1. Former spelling: Soenda Islands.  a chain of islands in the Malay Archipelago, consisting of the Greater Sunda Islands (chiefly Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Sulawesi) and Nusa Tenggara (the Lesser Sunda Islands)

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Sunda Islands

On the trail of a linguistic mystery in the Lesser Sunda Islands.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2019

Native to Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands, Komodo dragons are the largest living lizards.

From Washington Post

Among the Sunda Islands he recognized ideal climate for rubber tree cultivation.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are trees and plants from India, the Sunda Islands, and Australia, all labelled with their English and scientific names.

From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders

The great and little Sunda Islands and the Moluccas embrace 109 volcanoes, with fiery eruptions, and 10 what are called mud-volcanoes.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von