Malay Archipelago

noun

1. an extensive island group in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, southeast of Asia, including the Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands, the Moluccas, and the Philippines.

Malay Archipelago

noun

1. a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, between SE Asia and Australia: the largest group of islands in the world; includes over 3000 Indonesian islands, about 7000 islands of the Philippines, and, sometimes, New Guinea

Example Sentences

The first of these is the tarsier, which is found in several of the larger islands in the Malay Archipelago.

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The largest of these fruit-bats is the kalong, which is found in the islands of the Malay Archipelago.

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And it may have been equally early in India and in the Malay Archipelago.

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I doubt whether its area includes China or the Malay Archipelago.

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Rumphius1446 had seen it in gardens in the Malay Archipelago.

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