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Sunda Islands

noun

A chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago.

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... usually have only thirty-six teeth (2.1.3.3. over 2.1.3.3.). These living survivors are scattered far over the southern part of the Old World. Most of the species live in Madagascar, some in the Sunda Islands, others on the mainland of Asia and Africa. They are gloomy and melancholic animals; they live a quiet life, climbing trees, and eating fruit and insects. They are of different kinds. Some are closely related to the ...

— The Evolution of Man, V.2 • Ernst Haeckel

... Quatrefages, in his work "The Pygmies," finds reason to believe that even at the present day traces of them, pure or mixed, can be found from southeast New Guinea to the Andaman Islands, and from the Sunda Islands to Japan. On the continent their range extends, according to him, "from Annam and the peninsula of Malacca to the western Ghauts, and from Cape Comorin ...

— Man And His Ancestor - A Study In Evolution • Charles Morris

Words linked to "Sunda Islands" : archipelago, Nusa Tenggara, East India, Malay Archipelago, Lesser Sunda Islands, East Indies