Malay Archipelago
Speech parts
1. Malay Archipelago - Noun
2. Malay Archipelago - Proper noun
Meaning
a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia
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Examples
Southeast Asia is geographically divided into two subregions, namely Mainland Southeast Asia (or Indochina ) and Maritime Southeast Asia (or the similarly defined Malay Archipelago ) ( Javanese Nusantara main).
Early United States entry into what was then called the East Indies (usually in reference to the Malay Archipelago ) was low key.
Natural selection and Darwin seeAlso By February 1858, Wallace had been convinced by his biogeographical research in the Malay Archipelago of the reality of evolution.
"Notes on some recent and fossil cats, chiefly from the Malay Archipelago".
Raby p. 148. An illustration from The Malay Archipelago depicts the flying frog Wallace discovered.
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Wallace (1869), king and twelve-wired birds-of paradise.