Sunda Islands

English Alternative forms en Sunda islands Etymology See en Sunda. Proper noun 1 p Sunda Islands Sunda Island A group of islands in the Malay Archipelago. en Sundas en 1871 William Latham Bevan W. L. Bevan The student's manual of modern geography 2nd John Murray https://books.google.com.au/books?id=oGsDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA459&dq=%22Sunda+Islands%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjzw7PakMf0AhVWppUCHQbOATsQ6AF6BAhJEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Sunda%20Islands%22&f=false 459 The Sunda Islands are divided into two groups, the Greater Sunda Islands — viz., Sumatra, and Java, with their dependencies; and the Lesser Sunda Islands, comprising all that lie E. of Java, Timor being the chief. en 1965 Express Translation Service; Jean Aubouin Geosynclines https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ni_gBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA230&dq=%22Sunda+Islands%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjzw7PakMf0AhVWppUCHQbOATsQ6AF6BAgdEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Sunda%20Islands%22&f=false 230 Elsevier On the other hand, the Sunda Islands have been extensively studied, if on a broad scale, and allow us to draw valid comparisons. en 2006 Terry Harrison; John Krigbaum; Jessica Manser Chapter 12: Primate Biogeography and Ecology on the Sunda Shelf Islands Shawn M. Lehman; John G. Fleagle Primate Biogeography: Progress and Prospects Springer https://books.google.com.au/books?id=K2J_8vSsbFwC&pg=PA332&dq=%22Sunda+Islands%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjzw7PakMf0AhVWppUCHQbOATsQ6AF6BAhFEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Sunda%20Islands%22&f=false 332 It is also likely that Nasalis larvatus (Borneo) and Simias concolor (Mentawai Islands) were already present as endemic taxa in the Late Pliocene, and that their last common ancestor had arrived in the Sunda islands by the early Pliocene. Derived terms en Greater Sunda Islands en Lesser Sunda Islands en Sunda Island tiger Translations group of islands Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 巽他群島 Dutch: nl Soenda-eilanden n-p, nl Sunda-eilanden n-p French: fr îles de la Sonde f-p German: de Sundainseln f-p Italian: it Isole della Sonda f-p Polish: pl Archipelag Sundajski m Romanian: ro insulele Sunda f-p Further reading Greater Sunda Islands Lesser Sunda Islands Malay Archipelago