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Definition of Sunda islands
1. Noun. A chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago.
Terms within: Greater Sunda Islands, Lesser Sunda Islands, Nusa Tenggara
Generic synonyms: Archipelago
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunda Islands
Literary usage of Sunda islands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"sunda islands. LESSER, are situated between 5° and 11° S. hit., and between 114°
and 135° E. long. Although these islands were early visited by the ..."
2. Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1894)
"1 UK V<,, CHAPTER X THE TIMOR GROUP, OR LESSER sunda islands 1. General. FKOM the
east end of Java a chain of important islands stretches in a straight line ..."
3. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1888)
"... in use throughout the Sunda-Islands (Brandis). The bark is rich in
tan-substance (Roxburgh). ..."
4. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1825)
"OCEANICA. PART II. NORTH-WESTERN OCEANICA. A particular Account of the Sunda
Islands; or Sumatra, , Java, and Borneo. BOOK THE first country which ..."
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