A chain stretching east of the Indonesian island of Java is the homeland unique plants and animals. So, in the dense forests covering the territory of the islands, Rafflesia Arnoldi grows - the largest flower in the world, the diameter of which reaches 1 m, and the weight is more than 10 kg. Interestingly, this plant does not have roots, stem and leaves as such: it all consists of a giant flower that exudes a disgusting smell of rotten meat.
There is another unusual plant called hovenia sweet, or candy tree. Its fruits - nondescript dry balls - are inedible, but their thick stalks contain up to 50% sucrose and taste like raisins soaked in rum.
The island of Komodo, also part of the system, is inhabited by terrible monsters, in their own way outward appearance very similar to prehistoric dinosaurs. We are talking about giant reptiles - monitor lizards, which, at the behest of a Dutch pilot, the first of the Europeans to encounter them in 1911, are referred to as "dragons of Komodo Island". The name is quite justified: monitor lizards reach a length of 3.5 m and weigh about 150 kg. The appetite of the bogeymen is brutal: their four-centimeter teeth allow them to easily tear meat into pieces, and then swallow them. There is a known case when a hungry monitor lizard ate half of a wild boar carcass. And once four dragons dealt with the corpse of a large deer in about an hour.
Inanimate nature also brings many miracles. What are the multi-colored lakes of Keli Mutu, located on the island of Flores! The huge depressions of the Keli Lepembusu volcano were gradually filled with rainwater, and thus amazing reservoirs arose, each of which is characterized by a special color of water. The first lake - Tivoe Ata Polo (Lake of the enchanted people) - is crimson-red, the second - Tivoe Noza Moeri Koo Fai (Lake of youths and maidens) - is dark green, and the waters of the third - Tivoe Ata Mboepoe - are distinguished by transparency and delicate malachite-green color ... How did the water in lakes located at a distance of 10-15 m from each other acquire such a different color?
The fact is that the rocks that form the bottom and shores of the first lake contain a lot of iron. Dissolving in water, it reacts with atmospheric oxygen and forms iron oxide, which has a reddish-brown color. The lava, of which the basins of the other two lakes are composed, differs from the indicated one in chemical composition.
Of course, among local residents There are legends that explain the unusual color of the water in the Keli Mutu lakes in their own way. But no matter how you approach this issue, the reservoirs will still not lose their uniqueness, being real natural phenomena.
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In which country is the Western Lesser Sunda Islands
The Western Lesser Sunda Islands are located in Indonesia. It's wonderful a nice place, with its own history and traditions. The coordinates of the Western Lesser Sunda Islands are north latitude and east longitude (show on large map).
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Where are the Greater Sunda Islands located? They belong to the Malay Archipelago. The islands are located in the region between two oceans - the Pacific and Indian. In the north they are bordered by
a brief description of
The area of the islands is just over 1.5 million square meters. km. They consist of 4 large islands, as well as a large number of small islands such as Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, etc. The Great Sunda Islands are the largest island group on the planet. The islands are home to about 180 million people.
Let's take a closer look at some of the islands from this group.
Kalimantan
The largest of the Greater Sunda Islands is Kalimantan (also called Borneo). Its area is 743 thousand square meters. km. It is one of the three largest islands in the world. Another feature of the island is that its territory is divided between several countries at once: Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia. Kalimantan is washed by 4 seas and 2 straits at once. If we compare all the Great Sunda Islands, then only Kalimantan is dominated by flat terrain. However, mountainous terrain is also present on this land area. The most high peak islands - Kinabalu (over 4 thousand m). Also on the territory of Borneo is the active volcano Bombalay. Relatively densely represented and river system... The largest river is the Kapuas. It has a length of over one thousand kilometers. Other large rivers- Barito, Mahakam, Rajang.
Sumatra
To the west of Kalimantan is located in a system such as the Great Sunda Islands, it ranks second in size, and in the world ranking - sixth. Its area is more than 470 thousand square meters. km. Territorially belongs to the state of Indonesia. The equator border runs along the central part of the island, dividing this land area into two identical parts located in different hemispheres. Sumatra has an elongated shape. The southwestern part of the island is dominated by mountainous terrain with a large number of active volcanoes. Sumatra is a seismically active region of the planet. Earthquakes are not uncommon here. The highest point is the Kerinchi volcano (3800 m). The rest of the island is plain. There are many rivers in Sumatra.
Sulawesi
The third largest island - Sulawesi, has an area of 174 thousand square meters. km. Located east of Kalimantan. It is washed by two seas - Banda and Sulawesi, and the very shape of this island is unique and interesting. It consists of four distinct, elongated peninsulas that connect in the western part. These so-called offshoots are mainly of the plain type. The population lives in these territories. central part mountainous, and therefore the connection between the peninsulas is rather complicated.
Java
When describing the Greater Sunda Islands, one cannot but tell about Java. This is the smallest of all that are included in this system. Java has an area of about 130 thousand square meters. km. The island is very elongated from east to west. Its length is more than one thousand kilometers. This piece of land belongs to the state and is located on this island. Its central territory is occupied by mountains, the rest is jungle. The population lives mainly on the coast of the island, as far from it there are simply no conditions for a normal life for people.
Conclusion
The Greater Sunda Islands belong to the equatorial climatic zone and also have a rich flora and fauna. This territory is not deprived of minerals either. There are large reserves of tin and oil here. The population is engaged in tropical agriculture, actively exporting spices, rubber, rice, tea and coconut products.
| Sunda Islands indon. Kepulauan Sunda, sund. Kapuloan sunda |
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| Water area | Indian Ocean |
| Number of islands | over 3000 islands |
| Largest island | Kalimantan |
| total area | 1,700,000 km² |
| Highest point | 4095 m |
| Country | Indonesia 22x20px Indonesia Malaysia 22x20px Malaysia Brunei 22x20px Brunei East Timor 22x20px East Timor |
| Population (2010) | 244,900,000 people |
| Population density | 144,059 people / km² |
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Geography
Coordinates extreme points: western - about. Breech, 95 gr. v.d., 5.5 gr. north latitude, eastern - about. Waigeo, 131 gr. v.d., 0 gr. latitude, north - about. Bungey, 177.5 gr. v.d., 7 gr. north latitude, southern - about. Roti, Cape Bua, 123 gr. east longitude, 11 degrees south latitude
The total area of the archipelago is over 1.7 million km².
The Sunda Islands are divided into two groups:
- Greater Sunda Islands: Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi.
- Lesser Sunda Islands: Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Timor, Barat-Daya, Flores, Sawu and others.
The Greater Sunda Islands have an area of 1.5 million km², the Lesser Sunda Islands - 128 thousand km², the Moluccas - 83.7 thousand km². The largest island is Kalimantan (Borneo) with an area of 734 thousand km². In total, the archipelago includes more than 3000 islands.
All the Greater and most of the Lesser Sunda Islands are surrounded by many very small islands. A special place near Sumatra is occupied by the Mentawai archipelago (of which the largest is Siberut). In the east, the Selatan-Timur group includes the Tanimbar Islands, the Kai Islands, and the Aru Islands. The Moluccas include the islands of Halmakhera, Seram, Morotai, Misool, Obi, Buru, and others. Some experts consider the Moluccas to be a separate archipelago, which is essentially a pure convention. Together with the neighboring Philippine archipelago, the Sunda constitutes a larger formation - the Malay Archipelago.
The territory of the Sunda Islands is predominantly mountainous, but there are two vast lowlands in Kalimantan, and one in Sumatra. Highest points islands: Kinabalu, 4100 m (Kalimantan), Kerinchi, 3805 m (Sumatra), Semeru, 3676 m (Java), Rantocombola, 3455 m (Sulawesi), Segara-Rinjani on the island. Lombok, 3676 m (Small Sunda), on the island. Seram, 3018 m. There are more than 130 volcanoes on the archipelago, this is a zone of increased seismic activity.
Outside the archipelago is washed South China Sea and Arafursky. Inside the archipelago there are numerous inland seas (see list below): Rivers are mostly mountainous, short and rough. The largest rivers are in Kalimantan: Kapuas, Barrito, Kayan, Rajang; in Sumatra - Hari, originates on the Kerinchi volcano.
The Sunda Islands are divided by the following inter-island seas:
The climate of the Sunda Archipelago is equatorial and subequatorial (in the southern part of the archipelago). Forests - evergreen wet, in some places there are shrouds. The temperature in January is 24 ° C above zero, in July it reaches 32 ° C above zero. There is a lot of precipitation. On Kalimantan and west coast Sumatra - 3000 mm / year. In other areas - 2000 or more. The flora and fauna are very rich.
History
Population
The archipelago is inhabited by numerous peoples of different cultural levels, related in language, speaking the languages of the Indonesian language branch, which is part of the larger family of Austronesian languages.
Economy
Mineral resources: oil, tin, bauxite, nickel, copper, manganese, zinc, chromium, lead. 60% of the territory is occupied by forests with valuable tropical species of trees. In the Lesser Sunda Islands, land is predominantly occupied by agricultural land, rice, corn and industrial crops. In agrarian and industrial terms, the most developed island is Java.
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Literature
- Geographical Encyclopedic Dictionary, ed. V. M. Kotlyakova, M.-2003.
- V.A.Aprodov. Volcanoes, M.-1982.
- Educational atlas of the world, GUGK, M.-1968.
- Reference map "Indonesia", GUGK, M.-1974.
- A. Kondrashov, Handbook of necessary knowledge, M.-2001.
Excerpt from the Sunda Islands
- Hello! She said, smiling cheerfully. - I'm Stella. How do you like my world? ..- Hello Stella! - I answered cautiously. - It's really very beautiful here. Why do you call him yours?
- But because I created it! - the girl chirped even more cheerfully.
I opened my mouth in dumbfoundedness, but I could not say anything ... I felt that she was telling the truth, but I could not even imagine how this could be created, all the more, speaking about it so carelessly and easily ...
- Grandma likes it too. - Enough said the girl.
And I realized that she calls “grandmother” the same unusual old woman with whom I had just talked so sweetly and who, like her no less unusual granddaughter, put me into a real shock ...
"Are you all alone here?" I asked.
- When how ... - the girl became sad.
- Why don't you call your friends?
“I don’t have them…” the baby whispered quite sadly.
I didn’t know what to say, afraid to upset this strange, lonely and so cute creature even more.
- Do you want to watch something else? - as if waking up from sad thoughts, she asked.
I just nodded in response, deciding to leave the conversation to her, since I did not know what else could upset her and did not want to try it at all.
- Look, it was yesterday - Stella said more cheerfully.
And the world turned upside down ... The Crystal City disappeared, and instead some kind of "southern" landscape blazed with bright colors ... My throat caught in surprise.
“Is that you too? ..” I asked cautiously.
She nodded proudly with her curly red head. It was very funny to watch her, as the girl was really seriously proud of what she had managed to create. And who wouldn't be proud ?! She was a perfect baby who, laughing, in between times, created herself new incredible worlds, and immediately replaced the annoying ones with others, like gloves ... To be honest, there was something to come to shock. I tried to understand what is happening here? .. Stella was clearly dead, and her essence communicated with me all this time. But where we were and how she created these "worlds" of hers, so far it was a complete mystery to me.
- Don't you understand something? - the girl was surprised.
- To be honest - how! - I exclaimed frankly.
- But you can do much more? - the baby was even more surprised.
- More? .. - I asked dumbfounded.
She nodded, tilting her red head comically to one side.
- Who showed you all this? - cautiously, fearing to offend her with something, I asked.
- Well, of course, grandmother. - As if something self-evident she said. - In the beginning I was very sad and lonely, and my grandmother felt very sorry for me. So she showed me how to do it.
And then I finally realized that it really was her world, created only by the power of her thoughts. This girl didn't even realize what a treasure she was! But my grandmother, I think, just understood this very well ...
As it turned out, Stella died a few months ago in a car accident, in which her entire family also died. Only the grandmother remained, for whom that time there was simply no place in the car ... And who almost went mad after learning about her terrible, irreparable misfortune. But, what was the strangest thing, Stella did not get, as everyone usually did, to the same levels that her family was in. Her body possessed a high essence, which after death went to the most high levels Earth. And thus the girl was left completely alone, since her mother, father and older brother were apparently the most ordinary, ordinary people who did not differ in any special talents.
“Why don’t you find someone here, where you live now?” I asked cautiously again.
- I found ... But they are all kind of old and serious ... not like you and me. - Thoughtfully whispered the little girl.
Suddenly she suddenly smiled cheerfully and her cute little face immediately shone with a bright bright sun.
- Do you want me to show you how to do it?
I just nodded in agreement, very afraid that she would change her mind. But the little girl was clearly not going to "change her mind", on the contrary - she was very glad to find someone who was almost her age, and now, if I understood something, she was not going to let me go so easily ... This " perspective "completely satisfied me, and I prepared to listen carefully about her incredible miracles ...
“Everything is much easier here than on Earth,” Stella chirped, very pleased with the attention paid, “you should just forget about that“ level ”at which you still live (!) And focus on what you want to see ... Try to imagine very accurately, and it will come.
I tried to disconnect from all extraneous thoughts - it didn't work. For some reason it was always difficult for me.
Then, finally, everything disappeared somewhere, and I was left hanging in complete emptiness ... There was a feeling of Complete Peace, so rich in its fullness, which it was impossible to experience on Earth ... Then the emptiness began to fill with a fog sparkling with all the colors of the rainbow, which is more and more and more condensed, becoming like a shiny and very dense ball of stars ... Smoothly and slowly, this "ball" began to unravel and grow until it became similar to a gigantic sparkling spiral of stunning beauty, the end of which was "sprayed" by thousands of stars and went where something into the invisible distance ... I was dumbfounded looking at this fabulous unearthly beauty, trying to understand how and where did it come from? .. It never even occurred to me that I really created it in my imagination ... I could not get rid of the very strange feeling that this is exactly my real home ...
The archipelago itself southern border South-East Asia... Together with the Greater Sunda Islands, it is part of the Malay Archipelago, which belongs to Indonesia. There are only about 570 Small Sunda Islands. They are mainly represented by the six largest - Timor, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Sumba. The inhabitants of the island speak 68 dialects, follow the commandments of different religions, but are convinced that ultimately everything in the world depends on the will of the spirits.
FROM THE OCEAN
The Lesser Sunda Islands are one of the most geologically complex and seismically active regions on our planet.
The Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusa Tenggara, which means "southeastern islands" in Indonesian) consists of nearly 570 islands. 320 of them are so small that they remain unnamed. There are 42 inhabited islands. The archipelago is usually represented by six of them, the largest are Timor, Bali, Lombok, Sumbava, Flores, Sumba. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands (Sumatra, Java, Borneo), they make up the Malay Archipelago, which in turn is part of Indonesia, the largest in the world. island nation... From the north, the island is washed by the Flores Sea and the Banda Sea, from the south by the Timor Sea and other, smaller seas. Indian Ocean. Eastern part most big island Lesser Sunda Islands - Timor occupies independent state East Timor (we wrote about it in No. 104 of the Atlas), it also includes several small islands off the coast.
Scientists date the beginning of the geological history of the Small Sunda octpodod to the Paleocene (about 65.5 million years ago), when some of them appeared on the ocean surface as a result of volcanic processes in earth crust at the junction of the Australian and Pacific plates. Another part of the islands of the archipelago is of coral origin. Magma flows that "heated" the islands, born of underwater volcanoes, moved them to the close southern tip of the Eurasian plate. From the interaction of three plates, the islands received new geological metamorphoses, decreased or, on the contrary, increased in size, but finally decided on their location. This can be said about most of the islands of the archipelago, but not all. Flores Island, according to some geologists, was once part of the Australian Plate, although others believe that it is of volcanic origin, because there is a volcano on it, although it is inactive.
This volcano, Kelimutu (1639 m), has three crater lakes, which periodically change color, which is unusually beautiful, but this phenomenon has not yet found an unambiguous scientific explanation. The islands of Sumba, Timor and Babar are also considered to be the remnants of Australia. It should only be borne in mind that not a single geological theory of the origin of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the exception of islands with a visible volcanic history, can be called generally accepted in the scientific world... Most of these theories emerged quite recently, at the end of the 20th century. - and still need verification. There is also such a theory: part of the islands of the archipelago are fragments of the Eurasian plate. One way or another, but today the islands stand at the junction of the Eurasian and Australian plates and are part of the Sunda mountain arc, which has an outer and inner contour and is surrounded by deep oceanic depressions. This arc is considered part of the Himalayan fold system. The Wallace Line (named after the British geographer and biologist A.R. Wallace, who explored the islands of Indonesia in 1854-1862) runs between the islands of Bali and Lombok - a biogeographic division between the natural systems of South Asia on the one hand and Australia and New Guinea on the other ...
The Lesser Sunda Islands are part of an area of tectonic activity called the Pacific belt (ring) of fire. In 1815, the Tambora volcano erupted on the island of Sumbawa, which is still considered the most powerful eruption in the world. Its consequences were felt even a year later - 1816 remained in the history of Europe and North America as a "year without summer": the clouds of volcanic dust of Tambora, which reached these continents, still ruled there. By the time of the eruption, Tambor reached an altitude of 4300 m. Now this figure is 2821 m, but the volcano is active. And the most powerful active volcano of the Lesser Sunda Islands is Rinjani on the island of Lombok. In addition to Lombok and Sumbawa, of the large islands of the archipelago, its most famous island also has significant volcanoes - Bali, on it there are two active volcano: Agung (3142 m) and Batur (1717 m).
The border between Southeast Asia and Australia is designated by the Burman-Javan, or Sunda, mountain arc. It also includes the Lesser Sunda Islands. The northern ridge of the arc includes the islands of volcanic origin - Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, Flores, Dembata. The southern ridge - Sumba, Kaby, Rota, Timor, on these islands also find traces of volcanic activity, but very ancient. The small islands of the archipelago are of coral origin. The relief of the large islands is defined by wide, hilly plateaus cut by fast shallow rivers with deep valleys.
CALL OF ISLANDS
The Lesser Sunda Islands is one of those places on Earth where the fusion of different cultures took place especially whimsically, although to some extent predictable.
It is believed that homo erectus (Homo erectus) entered Bali about 1 million years ago, through Sandaland (Malak Peninsula, the islands of Kalimantan, Java and Sumatra with adjacent islands). Now these parts of the land are located on the continental shelf of Asia, and during the Ice Age they were the southern tip of the mainland and the sea level between Java and Bali was significantly lower, if any. In addition, there is evidence of the development of this species ancient man other islands in Indonesia.
And the most reliable ancient evidence of the development of Homo sapiens, by Homo sapiens, of the Lesser Sunda Islands - silicon tools, which are about 130 thousand years old, found by archaeologists in East Timor, others, from the bones of elephants that have died out here, they are at least 100 thousand years old - on the island of Flores. Migration to the Indonesian islands from Southeast Asia began about 40 thousand years ago. Linguists, based on the linguistic analysis of 68 languages of the archipelago, believe that the main wave of migration of the tribes of the Austronesian group from New Guinea and Australia happened about 5000 years ago.
At the same time, domestic animals appear on the islands - goats, pigs, dogs, and later - buffaloes. About 2,000 years ago, merchants from China and India reached Timor for the first time. They were primarily interested in white sandalwood, a local endemic, and, of course, spices. They also delivered these goods to the countries of the Middle East and Egypt. Bronze drums (Dongjong culture) from the Indochina Peninsula, 1st century BC NS. - 1st century, were discovered on the islands of Sumbawa and Roti. In Bali, the first state formations (kingdoms) appeared in the 10th century. In the XIII century. Islam comes here, most likely with Arab merchants. In the XII-XIV centuries. the Islamic kingdoms of Java and Sumatra have repeatedly presented their claims to the islands, but, as a rule, these claims remained unfounded: the rulers had little strength to conquer. The communal ancient way of life on the islands with rituals of worship of the spirits of the mountains, underground forces has survived to this day, and Islam is not at all an obstacle to this, like Catholicism and Protestantism, brought by Europeans in the 16th-17th centuries, and other religions.
In 1522 the ships of Magellan moored to Timor (Magellan himself was killed a year earlier on Philippine island Mactan), and in 1610 the Dutch appeared there (the Dutch East India Company). They failed to build a real colony, and they acted on the principle of "divide and rule", supporting one or another local king, and their main interests were in commerce, because of the primacy in which they competed with each other. In 1816 Indonesia entered the Dutch colonies under the name of the Netherlands East Indies. During World War II, in 1942, Japan occupied Indonesia. On August 17, 1945, one of the founders of the Indonesian National Party, Sukarno, proclaimed the independence of Indonesia, and himself - its president. After that, the wars of Sukarno's army began, first with the British, and then with the Dutch troops. The Indonesians won. In 1949, the UN recognized the independence of Indonesia.
The main product produced on the islands is rice (primarily in Bali and Lombok). By the middle of the XX century. the soil of rice plantations began to deplete, and in agriculture, coffee came to the fore, plantations of vanilla, cloves, citrus fruits and exotic flowers expanded. The further development of the Lesser Sunda Islands is associated primarily with tourism, it has become an economic priority since the 1970s. Bali is in the lead as a tourist destination. But something interesting can be found on all the islands of the archipelago. And no one will pass the Komodo Islands, where you can watch the huge monitor lizard - the "Komodo dragon". Lizards of this species also live on other islands - Flores, Rincha, Jili Motang.
FUN FACTS
■ In 2003 on about. Flores, the remains of the skeleton of a miniature go-minid species were found, about 1 m in height and with a brain volume of about 400 cm3, which is three times smaller than the brain of a modern person. This species was called the Man of Flores, although witches immediately glued the nickname "The Hobbit" to it. It is assumed that this species appeared about 95 thousand years ago, and became extinct about 12 thousand years ago due to a volcanic eruption.
■ There are about 230 holidays in Bali, and on almost every of them there are ceremonial processions symbolizing reverence for the gods of the invisible world: if you forget about them, misfortunes will begin in the visible world. The processions are always very colorful, thanks also to the colorful umbrellas, which are extremely popular in Bali. Women carry baskets with gifts to the gods on their heads. And since they do this from an early age, they all have excellent posture as one.
■ According to the legends of the Flores Island, the three colored lakes of the Kalimut volcano are painted for a reason: one lake, dark red, absorbs the dark souls of sorcerers, the second, also red, but lighter, - the souls of sinners; in the waters of the third, most beautiful color - azure, the souls of the innocent - babies and virgins - rest. Souls are constantly worried, which is why the lakes change the shades of their colors.
ATTRACTION
■ O. Timor: Kupang (colonial architecture), Taman Visata Kamplong Nature Reserve.
■ O. Bali: temple complex Pura Besakih (Mother's Temple) on the slope sacred mountain Agung, Taman Ayun - main temple Kingdom of Mengwi, Pura Ulun Danu temple on Lake Bratan, Tanah Loh temple, Uluwatu temple, where the Kecak dance performance takes place, Goa Gad-ja - temple "in the mouth of a demon", Buddhist monastery Brahma Vshara ashram, Botanical Garden in the caldera of Batur volcano, Klungkung Royal House, Git-Git waterfall, Kavi volcano, Bali Museum, Arts Center.
■ O. Lombok: Chakranegara - hindu temple Pura Meru, temple of three religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam) Pura Lingsar, Ampenan - Maritime Museum, Mayura Park. Royal garden Narmada, Rinjani volcano, Otokokok waterfall.
■ O. Sumbawa: Bima - Sultan's Palace (collection of crowns and daggers decorated precious stones), Subava-Besar - Royal Palace on stilts, Tambora volcano, National park Mauo.
■ O. Flores: three lakes of the cooled volcano Kelimutu, Larantuca - Portuguese port on the nearby island of Salor.
■ O. Komodo - excursions to the habitats of the Komodo monitor lizard, which grows up to 3 m in length,
■ O. Sumba: megalithic monuments near the villages of Tarung, Pasunga, Sodan and in the vicinity of the city of Waikabubak.
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