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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Example Sentences

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

A river of the size described pre-supposes a country of considerable extent, and therefore De Gonneville could not have landed on any of the islands lying between Madagascar and the Sunda Islands.

From The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Favenc, Ernest

Many difficulties opposed themselves to the realisation of his darling project—a visit to the Sunda Islands.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various