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| | Sunda Strait |
 | | As one of the two main passages the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean (the other being the Straits of Malacca) the Sunda Strait has long been significance to navigation. | | | In early 1942 the Battle of Sunda Strait was here a Japanese force sinking the USS Houston and HMS Perth as they attempted prevent the landings on Java. | | | The Sunda Strait is the strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/Sunda_Strait
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| | Scholastic News: News |
| | On an island in the Sunda Strait, which separates Java from Sumatra, is the volcano known as Krakatau (Krakatoa). | | | To the east of Java stretches a chain of mountainous islands known as the Lesser Sunda Islands. | | | Most of the people on the island of Bali are Hindus. |
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http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/indonesia_groliertext.asp
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| | Strait - encyclopedia article about Strait. |
| | It is connected to the Mediterranean Sea by the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara, and to the Sea of Azov by the Strait of Kerch. | | | Well-known straits in the world include the English Channel The English Channel, also for some time known as the British Sea (French: La Manche, "the sleeve") is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. | | | Straits are the duals of isthmuses isthmus (from Greek ισθμός, isthmos; plural isthmuses or isthmi; pronounced "ISS-mus" with a silent "th") is a narrow strip of land that is bordered on two sides by water and connects two larger land masses. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Strait
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| | Sunda Trench |
| | The Sunda Arc is a volcanic arc that has produced the islands of Sumatra and Java and the Sunda Strait and the Lesser Sunda Islands. | | | The Sunda Arc is a classic example of a volcanic island arc, in which all the elements of such geodynamic features can be identified. | | | For more information on Sunda Trench you can also try: |
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| | Strait of Malacca -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | Geologically, the strait belongs to the Sunda Shelf, which was an extensive, low-relief land surface at the beginning of Quaternary time (about 1.6 million years ago), and appears to have remained undisturbed by crustal movements since the Late Tertiary Period (about 7 million years ago). | | | The strait attained its present configuration after having been inundated by the postglacial rise of the sea level resulting from the melting of land ice in higher latitudes. | | | The climate of the strait is hot and humid and is characterized by the northeast monsoon during the (northern) winter and the southwest monsoon during the summer. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9050253?tocId=9050253
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| | sunda - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include sunda: sunda islands, greater sunda islands, lesser sunda islands, sunda strait, basa sunda, more... | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "sunda" is defined. | | | We found 2 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word sunda: |
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| | Java Sea |
| | Battle of Sunda Strait continues as heavy cruiser Houston (CA-30) and Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth heading for Sunda Strait, are attacked by three Japanese cruisers and nine destroyers. | | | Battle of Sunda Strait begins shortly before midnight as heavy cruiser Houston (CA-30) and Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth, attempting to retire from Java, accidentally encounter Japanese transport force and escorting ships in Banten Bay, Java, and engage them. | | | Having proceeded through Gaspar Strait to the north of Banka and failed to contact the Japanese force (which has already reached Banka Strait), ABDA striking force (RAdm Doorman, RNN) is attacked by Japanese naval land attack planes as well as carrier attack planes from carrier Ryujo. |
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| | SUNDA ISLANDS - LoveToKnow Article on SUNDA ISLANDS |
| | Sunda Strait is the channel separating Sumatra from Java and uniting the Indian Ocean with the Java Sea. | | | In 1883 Sunda Strait was the scene of the most terrific results of the eruptiori of Krakatoa(?..), a volcanic island further west in the strait. | | | Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Banka and Billiton, with their adjacent islandsand the Little Sunda Islands, of which the more important are Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Sumba and Timor. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SU/SUNDA_ISLANDS.htm
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| | Java Sea |
| | Battle of Sunda Strait continues as heavy cruiser Houston (CA-30) and Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth heading for Sunda Strait, are attacked by three Japanese cruisers and nine destroyers. | | | Having proceeded through Gaspar Strait to the north of Banka and failed to contact the Japanese force (which has already reached Banka Strait), ABDA striking force (RAdm Doorman, RNN) is attacked by Japanese naval land attack planes as well as carrier attack planes from carrier Ryujo. | | | In response to the movement of the Japanese convoy sighted the previous day in Makassar Strait, a U.S. task force (RAdm William A. Glassford), consisting of light cruisers Boise (CL-47) (flagship) and Marblehead (CL-12) and four destroyers sails from Koepang, Timor, to engage it. |
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| | Java Sea |
| | Battle of Sunda Strait continues as heavy cruiser Houston (CA-30) and Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth heading for Sunda Strait, are attacked by three Japanese cruisers and nine destroyers. | | | Stewart (DD-224), damaged by shellfire in the Battle of Badoeng Strait the previous night, suffers further damage when, improperly shored and placed on blocks, she rolls on her port side in a Dutch floating drydock at Surabaya, Java. | | | Having proceeded through Gaspar Strait to the north of Banka and failed to contact the Japanese force (which has already reached Banka Strait), ABDA striking force (RAdm Doorman, RNN) is attacked by Japanese naval land attack planes as well as carrier attack planes from carrier Ryujo. |
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| | The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The BATTLE OF SUNDA STRAIT - 1942 - Jan 10th, 2003 |
| | The battle of Sunda Strait is one that symbolizes the whole Netherlands East Indies campaign. | | | The battle of Sunda Strait was an unknown one for most of the war. | | | Aerial reconnaissance made as late as 1500 hours on the 28th indicated the western route via the Sunda Strait was clear and that the Japanese invasion fleet was still ten hours steaming time away. |
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| | Early warning systems in the Sunda Strait area, Indonesia |
| | The Sunda Strait is situated between the islands of Jawa and Sumatra. | | | Comprehensive disaster mitigation in Sunda Strait is indispensable in order to reduce the impact of hazards and to promote sustainable development. | | | The Sunda Strait area has a large potential of both natural and man-made hazards. |
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| | SUNDA STRAIT 2005 A joint INQUA – IGCP 495 meeting - Provisional Conference Schedule |
| | The high population density in the Sunda Strait region, with Krakatau at its center, provides abundant justification for the planned meeting. | | | A seismicity map of Sunda Strait and Banten- West Java Region. | | | Krakatau's explosion in 1883 is the most well known recent example of such an event, and was followed by a series of tsunami that swept the coastal zone around Sunda Strait. |
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http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/research/IGCP_495/Meetings/Sunda_Straight/Schedule
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| | Diving in the Sunda Strait |
| | The Houston and the HMAS Perth (Australian light cruiser) were making a night run toward the northeast entrance of the Sunda Strait to attempt to escape from the Japanese and into the Indian Ocean. | | | Intelligence reports indicated that the Sunda Strait was free of Japanese warships. | | | No one knew that the Japanese were planning the invasion of Java that same night by way of the northeast entrance to the Sunda Strait and Banten Bay, on the northwest tip of Java. |
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http://www.asiaticfleet.com/diving_in_the_sunda_strait.htm
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| | The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The BATTLE OF SUNDA STRAIT - 1942 - Jan 10th, 2003 |
| | Aerial reconnaissance made as late as 1500 hours on the 28th indicated the western route via the Sunda Strait was clear and that the Japanese invasion fleet was still ten hours steaming time away. | | | The Western Strike Force (light cruises Danae, Dragon, Hobart and destroyers Scout, Tenedos and Evertsen) had already navigated the Sunda Strait bound for Ceylon after an unsuccessful sweep of the waters north of Batavia on the night of February 27-28. | | | The battle of Sunda Strait was an unknown one for most of the war. |
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| | Sunda Strait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Sunda Strait is the strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. | | | On March 1, 1942, the Battle of Sunda Strait was fought here. | | | The islands in the strait and the surrounding regions of Java and Sumatra were devastated by the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, primarily due to intense pumice fall and great tsunamis. |
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| | Were the Best Good Enough? |
| | 6) The Battle of Sunda Strait: One USN CA and one RAN CL attempted to escape the Java Sea debacle via Sunda Strait where they ran into a Japanese landing in progress. | | | 6) 1 Mar 42 The Battle of Sunda Strait | | | 3) The Battle of Badung Strait: Three RNN CLs, one DD, and eight MTBs and six USN DDs made a three wave attack on the IJN forces in Badung Strait. |
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| | This is because of a 600 m deep trough along the edge of the Sunda Shelf extending from south of Makassar Strait to north of Lombok Strait that effectively funnels a maximum salinity water mass from Makassar Strait directly to Lombok Strait. | | | It is dynamically a western boundary current that separates from the shelf north of the Yucatan Strait, becomes unstable, and intermittently sheds anticyclonic eddies or rings into the Gulf of Mexico. | | | Its position at the edge of the Sunda Shelf also allows it to transport both Java Sea and Flores Sea surface waters to the Indian Ocean. |
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| | Oxford Brookes University - Krakatau |
| | The Sunda Strait is a very heavily used shipping lane from the Far-East and has been so since the eighteenth-century therefore most of the reports about the famous 1883 eruption were from British and other European ships in the area. | | | Krakatau is a notorious volcano lying in the Sunda Straits between Java and Sumatra which is part of the Indonesian chain of islands. | | | Shipping in the Sunda Strait should also be kept to a minimum if an eruption is immanent as huge tsunami may swamp even huge vessels such as bulk carriers and tankers. |
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| | EO Newsroom: New Images - Anak Krakatau |
| | Krakatau and the Sunda Strait sit at the hinge of the curve between Sumatra and Java, making this a region particularly prone to geologic activity. | | | Brown and almost barren, Anak Krakatau rises out of the Sunda Strait, the narrow band of the Indian Ocean that separates the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java. | | | Over a two-day period, August 26-27, 1883, Krakatau erupted with such violence that two-thirds of the island, about 23 square kilometers, sank into the Sunda Strait. |
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| | PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway: Search/Browse Results |
| | Krakatau Volcano (Krakatoa)- John Seach Sunda Strait, Indonesia 6.10 S, 105.42 E,, summit elevation 813 m (Rakata), caldera The eruption of Krakatau (Krakatoa) in 1883 created the largest explosion ever heard and produced tsunamis which killed 36 0... | | | Krakatau, Sundra strait Krakatau, Sundra strait Krakatau volcano lies in the Sunda strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra. | | | Volcanoes of the World » Volcanoes of Indonesia» Map Region Information Volcano List Volcanology Highlights Map Data Sources Links Subregions Andaman Islands Sumatra Krakatau Java Lesser Sunda Islands Banda Sea Sulawesi Sangihe Isl... |
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| | Hexapedia - Sunda Strait |
| | The Sunda Strait is the strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. | | | In early 1942 the battle of Sunda Strait was fought here, a Japanese force commanded by Rear Admiral Kenzaburo Hara sinking the Allied cruisers USS Houston and HMAS Perth as they attempted to prevent the landings on Java. | | | As one of the two main passages from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean (the other one being the Straits of Malacca), the Sunda Strait has long been of significance to navigation. |
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| | The Cruiser Houston: At War |
| | In the ensuing Battle of Sunda Strait, the Houston and Perth both aggressively fired at the attacking Japanese ships at close range, but, outnumbered and outgunned, they were no match for the enemy forces that completely surrounded them. | | | On February 28, the Houston and the Perth proceeded to the port of Batavia in western Java, and partially refueled before attempting that night to pass through Sunda Strait in an effort to reach the safer waters of the Indian Ocean. | | | Captain Albert H. Rooks commanded the U.S.S. Houston during the Battle of Sunda Strait. |
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| | Tanjung Lesung - activities & attractions - Krakatau Volcano |
| | Located in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra, Indonesia, the Krakatau Islands Nature Reserve is the spectacular site of the worlds youngest active volcano. | | | Krakataus notorious and world famous history has been of great interest to scientists since the 16th century, when the Sunda Strait functioned as a gateway for sailors from the European continent to the Indonesian archipelago. | | | This last huge eruption, one of the biggest explosions on earth in recorded time, killed over 35,000 people living on the Java and Sumatra shores of the Sunda Strait. |
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| | GINCO [B3.22] |
| | We explain the transtension of the western Sunda Strait (Semangka Graben) and the transpression with inversion of the eastern Sunda Strait, along the newly detected Krakatau Basin, by this rotation. | | | The first inner wedge I is composed of tectonic flakes which are correlated from SE Sumatra across the southern Sunda Strait to NW Java. | | | From the results of the GINCO I project there is evidence for the existence of two accretionary wedges along the Sunda Arc: wedge I is of assumed Paleogene age and wedge II of Neogene to Recent age (Fig. |
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| | Java Sea |
| | Battle of Sunda Strait begins shortly before midnight as heavy cruiser Houston (CA-30) and Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth, attempting to retire from Java, accidentally encounter Japanese transport force and escorting ships in Banten Bay, Java, and engage them. | | | Battle of Sunda Strait continues as heavy cruiser Houston (CA-30) and Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth heading for Sunda Strait, are attacked by three Japanese cruisers and nine destroyers. | | | Japanese land at Balikpapan, Borneo, N.E.I. Battle of Makassar Strait off Balikpapan occurs when four U.S. destroyers (Cmdr Talbot, DesDiv 59) attack Japanese Borneo invasion convoy. |
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| | We explain the transtension of the western Sunda Strait (Semangka Graben) and the transpression with inversion of the eastern Sunda Strait, along the newly detected Krakatau Basin, by this rotation. | | | Off the Sunda Strait northward bending branches of the MFZ are connected with the Sumatra Fault zone (SFZ). | | | 5: Schematic geodynamic model for the evolution of the Sunda forearc |
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| | The invasion convoy anchored in the entrance into Sunda strait and while they were landing troops, their escort set up patrol zones, destroyer Fubuki getting the sector that would take him into path of Houston and Perth later that night. | | | By 2230 that night the two cruisers were within the sight of the entrance into the Sunda strait. | | | That was the end of the Battle of Sunda strait. |
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