| Java's contact with the European colonial powers began in 1522 with a treaty between the Sunda kingdom and the Portuguese in Malacca. |
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| Foreign traders were starting to use new routes such as Malacca and Sunda Strait due to the development of maritime Southeast Asia. |
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| The expedition arrived in early 1512, passing en route through the Lesser Sunda Islands, being the first Europeans to get there. |
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| Srivijaya especially became the dominant maritime power for more than 5 centuries, controlling both Strait of Malacca and Sunda Strait. |
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| It is located in the eastern part of the Lesser Sunda Islands and includes West Timor. |
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| In the 1960s proposals were made for a bridge across the Sunda Strait and in the 1990s further suggestions arose. |
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| Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up the Sunda Islands. |
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| The islands are part of a volcanic arc, the Sunda Arc, formed by subduction along the Sunda Trench in the Java Sea. |
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| Mount Krakatau actually included the province of Lampung is located in the Sunda Strait. |
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| After the collapse of the kingdom Tarumanagara following an attack by the Srivijaya empire, power in western Java fell to the Kingdom of Sunda. |
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| The source identifies the port of Sunda as strategic and thriving, pepper from Sunda being among the best in quality. |
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| Before the 16th century, pepper was being grown in Java, Sunda, Sumatra, Madagascar, Malaysia, and everywhere in Southeast Asia. |
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| The Lesser Sunda Islands consist of two geologically distinct archipelagos. |
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| Pinto was bought by a Celebes merchant and resold to the King of Kalapa who returned him to Sunda. |
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| Located in the east of Lesser Sunda Islands, East Nusa Tenggara faces the Indian Ocean in the south and Flores Sea in the north. |
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| There is also something distinctly prehistoric about the sunda gharial, a huge croc from Malaysia. |
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| Frequent ferry services cross the straits between nearby islands, especially in the chain of islands stretching from Sumatra through Java to the Lesser Sunda Islands. |
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| Located in Southeast Asia, the island of Timor is part of Maritime Southeast Asia, and is the largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. |
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| The South China Sea lies over another extensive area of continental shelf, the Sunda Shelf, which joins Borneo, Sumatra, and Java to the Asian mainland. |
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| Java is surrounded by the Java Sea to the north, Sunda Strait to the west, the Indian Ocean to the south and Bali Strait and Madura Strait in the east. |
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| The Dutch were later able to bypass many of these problems by pioneering a direct ocean route from the Cape of Good Hope to the Sunda Strait in Indonesia. |
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| Lying at the collision of two tectonic plates, the Lesser Sunda Islands comprise some of the most geologically complex and active regions in the world. |
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| There are a number of volcanoes located on the Lesser Sunda Islands. |
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| The Lesser Sunda Islands differ from the large islands of Java or Sumatra in consisting of many small islands, sometimes divided by deep oceanic trenches. |
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| Jan Huyghen van Linschoten had told them not to pass through the Malacca Strait, which was controlled by the Portuguese, but through Sunda Strait. |
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| He suggested traders approach the East Indies from the south of Sumatra through the Sunda Strait, thereby minimizing the risk of Portuguese intervention. |
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| Banten is located near the Sunda Strait's strategic sea lanes that link Australia and New Zealand with Southeast Asia, for example Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. |
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| Limit northern region bordering the Java Sea, west of the Sunda Strait, as well as in the southern part of the Indian Ocean, so the area has a potential marine resources. |
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| The last section contains a brief introductory chapter about Wallacea and three chapters that detail Olsen's work on Sumba in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. |
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