The Sunda Islands are a group of islands in the western part of Maritime Southeast Asia.
They are divided into two groups, with the Greater Sunda group being referred to much less than the Lesser Sunda.
The territory of the islands is divided between the present-day countries of Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
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 Islands - i.e. Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Banka and Billiton, with their adjacent islands - and 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 In. 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, a volcanic island further west in the strait.
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