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Encyclopedia Britannica



MENTAWI

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 146 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MENTAWI , a
chain
  of islands in the Dutch
East
  Indies, off the west
coast
  of
Sumatra
 , between I and 30 30' S. There are twenty-one islands in all, of which the
majority
  lie close to or between the four largestSiberut, Sikaban or Sipora, North Pageh and
South
  Pageh. The two last (also called Pagi or Poggy) are sometimes termed the Nassau Islands. The
total
 
land
  area is 1224 sq. m. The islands are included in the administration of Padang,
Sumatra
 . They are apparently volcanic. Coral reefs lie off the coasts and render them difficult of access. The natives in language and customs present affinities with some Polynesians, and have been held to be a survival of the eastward immigration of
people
  of Caucasian stock which took
place
  before those which established the " pre-Malay "peoples (such as the Dyaks and Battas) in the Malay Archipelago. The islands produce some coco-nuts, sago, trepang and timber.


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