Crossword clues for sumatra
sumatra
- Neighbor of Borneo
- Banda Aceh's island
- World's fifth most populous island
- Westernmost of the Sunda Islands
- Major source of coffee beans
- Large island of the Dutch East Indies
- Large island of Indonesia
- Java's large neighbor
- Island visited by Marco Polo
- Island southwest of Malaysia
- Island on the Strait of Malacca
- Island on the Equator
- Island near Krakatoa
- Island known for its coffee
- Island in western Indonesia
- Island bisected by the equator
- Indonesian island separated from the Malay Peninsula by the Strait of Malacca
- Indonesian island near Java
- Big island in the Malay Archipelago
- 2004 tsunami locale
- Island divided almost in half by the Equator
- Island crossed by the Equator
- Island across the strait from Singapore
- Indonesian island crossed by the Equator
- Home to many orangutans
- Large Indonesian island
- A mountainous island in western Indonesia
- It's across the strait from Singapore
- Where Palembang is
- Where Padang is
- Part of Indonesia
- Problem with a craft going around island
- Part of Indonesia shown in retrospective series from Jakarta museum
- Terrible traumas in Indonesian island
- Java neighbor
- Island near Java
- Neighbor of Java
- Island near Borneo
- Orangutan habitat
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
said to be from Sanskrit Samudradvipa "ocean-island." Related: Sumatran.
Wikipedia
Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia and part of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island that is entirely in Indonesia (two larger islands, Borneo and New Guinea, are shared between Indonesia and other countries) and the sixth largest island in the world at 473,481 km (including adjacent islands such as the Riau Islands and Bangka Belitung Islands).
Sumatra is an elongated landmass spanning a diagonal northwest-southeast axis. The Indian Ocean borders the west, northwest, and southwest sides of Sumatra with the island chain of Simeulue, Nias and Mentawai bordering the southwestern coast. On the northeast side the narrow Strait of Malacca separates the island from the Malay Peninsula, an extension of the Eurasian continent. On the southeast the narrow Sunda Strait separates Sumatra from Java. The northern tip of Sumatra borders the Andaman Islands, while on the lower eastern side are the islands of Bangka and Belitung, Karimata Strait and the Java Sea. The Bukit Barisan mountains, which contain several active volcanoes, form the backbone of the island, while the northeast sides are outlying lowlands with swamps, mangrove and complex river systems. The equator crosses the island at its center on West Sumatra and Riau provinces. The climate of the island is tropical, hot and humid with lush tropical rain forest once dominating the landscape.
Sumatra has a wide range of plant and animal species but has lost almost 50% of its tropical rainforest in the last 35 years, and many species are critically endangered such as the Sumatran ground cuckoo, Sumatran tiger, Sumatran elephant, Sumatran rhinoceros, and Sumatran orangutan. Deforestation on the island has also resulted in serious haze over neighbouring countries, such as the 2013 Southeast Asian haze causing considerable tensions with affected countries such as Malaysia and Singapore.
Sumatra may refer to:
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Sumatra, an island in Indonesia
- Sumatra, a type of an ornamental fish
- Sumatra chicken, a breed of chicken originally found on the island
- Sumatran coffee, a roast/varietal of Arabica coffee
- Sumatra, Florida, a town in the United States
- Sumatra PDF, a Portable Document Format reader
Usage examples of "sumatra".
Brigadier held the machine-carbine in his hands, for the Zero swung round in a tight turn and headed off back against towards the west in the direction of Sumatra, its sleek fuselage black-streaked with pouring engine oil: less than two miles away it met the seaplane returning, and the two planes disappeared together into the pale golden afterwash of sunset.
By the latter part of March Sumatra was also in Japanese hands, as were the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
Sikim, Assam, Burmah, and down the Malayan Peninsula to Sumatra, Java and Borneo.
Chad, Czechoslovakia, Sumatra, Siam, Baluchistan, and Bolivia as America and the Communist League firm their power boundaries.
Jack that evening, when the frigate was threading the strait between Banka and Sumatra, less than ten miles broad in places.
Burmah, Ceylon, the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Hainan, Banka and Borneo.
West Australian coasts and connected with the duplicate Malay Peninsula on earlier charts, is now separated from the continental bogus prolongation and assumes a greater likeness to the real Sumatra, although retaining its erroneous position, its southern parts being traversed by the tropic of Capricorn.
Lushington Indiaman when we had our brush with Linois on the way back from Sumatra?
The Malays of Sungei Ujong and several of the adjacent States are supposed to be tolerably directly descended from those of the parent empire Menangkabau in Sumatra, who conquered and have to a great extent displaced the tribes known as Jakuns, Orang Bukit, Rayet Utan, Samangs, Besisik, Rayet Laut, etc.
Had the London-based shipping broker known it, Lampong is simply one of the minor languages of the island of Sumatra, whence his Indonesian visitor originally came.
Sumatra, the Palembang and Lampong territory, and continued his error in an easterly direction by giving to Java the name belonging to Sumbawa, and to Sumbawa that which belonged to Flores, leaving the two last islands nameless.
Planting of the new strain took place on Java, Sumatra and Madura islands.
Sumatra, which had been dragged out of place and stood for Ceylon in the Ptolemy maps, where its enormous size had no doubt prevented the proper charting of the Indian Peninsula.
I have received from all parts of India and Burmah, and in a considerable number of living specimens which I have examined, I have observed amongst adult animals so much difference in size and intensity of coloration that I have found it impossible to retain the muntjac of Java and Sumatra as a distinct species.
Thus the natives of Nias, an island off the coast of Sumatra, say that, when the earth was created, a certain being was sent down by God from heaven to put the last touches to the work of creation.