Sunda Islands

The Sunda Islands are a group of islands in the Malay archipelago.[1]

They are further divided into the Greater Sunda Islands and the Lesser Sunda Islands.

Administration

The Sunda Islands are divided between four countries, namely Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia and Malaysia. The majority of these islands fall under the jurisdiction of Indonesia. Borneo is divided between Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Timor Island is divided between East Timor and Indonesia. Two small islands also belong to East Timor.

List of islands

Greater Sunda Islands:

Lesser Sunda Islands, from west to east:

Wildlife

Flat-headed cat camera-trapped in Tangkulap Forest Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia in March 2009

These islands are host to organisms that are different from those of the Asian mainland. Fauna include the Sunda clouded leopard, tiger and leopard.[2]

See also

References

  1. For an early english language account see - ' Account of the Sunda Islands and Japan : discourse of the Hon. T.S. Raffles. pp. [190]-198 ; From the Quarterly journal of science articles, vol. 2 (1817) or Journal of science and the arts, Vol. 2 (1817)
  2. Kitchener, A.C.; Breitenmoser-Würsten, C.; Eizirik, E.; Gentry, A.; Werdelin, L.; Wilting, A.; Yamaguchi, N. (2017). "A revised taxonomy of the Felidae: The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group" (PDF). Cat News. Special Issue 11.
  • Wikisource Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sunda Islands". Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  • Visible earth page on the lesser Sunda islands
  • (in English) (in French) Map of a Part of China, the Philippine Islands, the Isles of Sunda, the Moluccas, the Papuans is a map from around 1760 featuring the Sunda Islands

Coordinates: 2°00′S 110°00′E / 2.000°S 110.000°E / -2.000; 110.000

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