In his 1869 book, The Malay Archipelago , Wallace described numerous species unique to the area.

Badas Islands is a group of islands in the Tudjuh Archipelago in the South China Sea between the Malaysian mainland to the west and the island of Borneo to the east.

In the 17 18th centuries, the island was regularly visited by ships of the Dutch East India Company, which was strengthening its position in this part of the Malayan archipelago, and in 1743 officially came under its control.

The British, who did not depose the Malay rulers as they did the Singhalese king in Kandy, made sure that the native position of the Malays was constitutionally secure from the start.

Photo by Jack Kurtz, Copyright Demotix (9 29 2009)

Malay Muslims in Thailand s southern provinces are demanding their own political space.

It has often been described as an archipelago of 16 islands.

It is situated amongst the islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

Singapore lost its hinterland and was no longer the administrative or economic capital of the Malay Peninsula.

During the invasions he managed to mobilize vessels from Javanese coastal cities to Malay Peninsula.

Together they are often known as the Japanese Archipelago.

The objective of the note is to recognize Venezuela's sovereignty over the Los Monjes archipelago.

The trivial solution is to create really large protected areas like the Chagos Archipelago.

The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

The Bocas del Toro Archipelago is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea in northwest Panama.

Bahrain is an archipelago made up of 33 natural islands and a number of man made ones.

There might also be some issues of sovereignty and of self determination in connection with the Chagos archipelago issue.

It occurred in the South Pacific between Rennell Island and Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands.

At , it is the second largest of the Canary Islands, after Tenerife.

Most native languages are part of the Philippine branch of the Malayo Polynesian languages, which is itself a branch of the Austronesian language family.

It is in area and contains the largest settlement of the territory, Bantam, with a population of about 500 Cocos Malay people.

The lake holds Ometepe and Zapatera which are both volcanic islands, as well as the archipelago of the Solentiname Islands.

Off the Southern California coast the Channel Islands archipelago of the Santa Monica Mountains extends for 160 miles.

We found our second Blue Zone on the other side of the planet, about 800 miles south of Tokyo, on the archipelago of Okinawa.

Finally, higher up the Caribbean archipelago, in December 2011, TEDxSanJuan was about to its mark.

It is part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and had a population of 114 in 2001, all in Sachs Harbour.

The military s belief that Malay Muslims could be re educated and re socialized into accepting a Thai identity has proved untenable.

Pinta Island, also known as Abingdon Island, after the Earl of Abingdon, is an island located in the Galapagos Islands group, Ecuador.

Tortola is the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands.

Other gateways are the Barents Sea Opening (BSO), the Bering Strait and various small channels in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

Bora Bora is an island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean.

On April 28, 2004, the insurgents primary targets were Buddhist members of the security forces, but most of those who died were Malay Muslims.

Background The Zanzibar Archipelago, now part of the Southeast African republic of Tanzania, is a group of islands lying in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Tanganyika.

The political wing of MPAIAC was known as Canarian Workers Party, Partido de los Trabajadores Canarios (PTC).

In contrast, the Malay Peninsula, including the island of Singapore, was the land of the Malays (Tanah Melayu) before the first Chinese and Indian immigrants came and settled there.

This summer, he publicly instructed his education minister to include passages from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn s The Gulag Archipelago in the high school curriculum.

Many island countries are spread over an archipelago, as is the case with the Federated States of Micronesia and the Philippines (which consists of thousands of islands).

The remaining five states in the peninsula, known as the Unfederated Malay States, while not directly under British rule, also accepted British advisers around the turn of the 20th century.

The channels are Channel 5 (English channel), Channel News Asia (English channel), Okto (English channel), Channel 8 (Chinese channel), Channel U (Chinese channel), Suria (Malay channel) and Vasantham (Indian channel).

The Chagos Archipelago had been illegally detached from the territory of Mauritius, as described in paragraphs 7 to 13 of the report.

Champa also had close trade and cultural relations with the powerful maritime empire of Srivijaya and later with the Majapahit of the Malay Archipelago.

This sea is an archipelago belonging to Kiribati that spans across the equator and it has several uninhabited, unfished, pristine islands and a few inhabited islands.

The gaps in the archipelago of Central America filled in with material eroded off North America and South America, plus new land created by continued volcanism.

Spitsbergen (formerly known as West Spitsbergen Norwegian Vest Spitsbergen or Vestspitsbergen ) is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway.

During an expedition from London to South America in 1689 91, commanding HMS Welfare , he discovered the sound between the two main islands in the Falkland Islands.