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Encyclopedia Britannica



SUNDA ISLANDS

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 94 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: STE-SUS
SUNDA ISLANDS , the collective name of the islands in the Malay Archipelago which extend from the, Malay Peninsula to the
Moluccas
 . They are divided into the
Great
  Sunda Islandsi.e. Sumatra, Java, Borneo,
Celebes
 , Banka and Billiton, with their adjacent islandsand the Little Sunda Islands, of which the more important are
Bali
 , Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Sumba and Timor.
Sunda Strait is the channel separating Sumatra from Java and uniting the Indian Ocean with the Java Sea. It is 15 1n. broad between the
south
 -eastern extremity of Sumatra and the town of Anjer in Java. In the middle is the low-lying well-wooded
island
  of
Dwars
 -in-den-Weg (" right in the way "), otherwise Middle
Island
  or Sungian. In 1883 Sunda Strait was the
scene
  of the most terrific results of the eruption of Krakatoa (q.v.), a volcanic island further west in the strait.


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