Sumatra (/sʊˈmɑːtrə/) is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as...
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mid-19th to about the early 20th century, the Javan rhinoceros had ranged beyond the islands of Java and Sumatra and onto the mainland of Southeast Asia and Indochina...
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The first documented Sumatran rhinoceros was shot 16 km (9.9 mi) outside Fort Marlborough, near the west coast of Sumatra, in 1793. Drawings of the animal...
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forests up to 1,400 metres in Borneo, Sumatra, Java, the Malay Peninsula, Singapore, and southern Thailand. The rhinoceros hornbill is the state bird of the...
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uses an almost identical term, Terra de Tana Malaio, with which he referred to the southeastern part of Sumatra, where the deposed sultan of Malacca,...
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Banknotes of the Indonesian rupiah (section Sumatra)
Defence Council, South Sumatra (dated 1 August 1947) Rp5, Rp50, Rp100 and Rp250 notes of Serbalawan, Simalungun, North Sumatra (dated 5 August 1947) Rp5...
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Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's...
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where King Binyaram sent back a friendly emissary to Kochi in 1514 and Sumatra, Sumatran kings of Kampar and Indragiri sending emissaries to Afonso accepting...
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Sumatra, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam M. rhinoceros (Ridl.) Rauschert - Sumatra M. schistoloba (Schltr.) Rauschert - Sumatra...
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periods when sea levels were lower. It includes Bali, Borneo, Java, and Sumatra in Indonesia, and their surrounding small islands, as well as the Malay...
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Myanmar, southern Vietnam, southwestern Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra. The animal's coat has a light-colored patch that extends from its shoulders...
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Tourism in Indonesia (redirect from Tourism in Sumatra)
Central Java, East Java, Jakarta, North Sumatra, Lampung, South Sulawesi, South Sumatra, Banten, and West Sumatra (which would make it 11 provinces today...
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He took part in Rhinoceros conservation projects in India, Sumatra and Java for 30 years. His field research on the Sumatran Rhinoceros in Gunung Leuser...
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Acehnese people (category Ethnic groups in Sumatra)
ethnic group from Aceh, Indonesia on the northernmost tip of the island of Sumatra. The area has a history of political struggle against the Dutch colonial...
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westernmost province of Indonesia. It is located on the northern end of Sumatra island, with Banda Aceh being its capital and largest city. It is bordered...
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Lambri (category History of Sumatra)
Lamuri, Lamri, or Lambri was a kingdom in northern Sumatra, Indonesia recorded from the 9th century until the early 16th century. The area was inhabited...
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diverse; on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, the orangutan, the Asian elephant, the Malayan tapir, the Sumatran rhinoceros and the Bornean clouded leopard...
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Threatened Species. 2017: e.T120588639A120588662. van Lidth de Jeude, Th. W. (1922). "Snakes from Sumatra". Zoologische Mededelingen. 6 (19). Rijksmuseum van...
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them exist in Sumatra, and the rest exist in Sumba, Sulawesi, Papua and Kalimantan. Kalimantan has the same hornbill species as Sumatra, except that the...
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traded profitably with Sumatra during the early years of the 19th century. In 1815, the first commercial shipment of nutmegs from Sumatra arrived in Europe...
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Greater Sunda Islands, located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra. The island is politically divided among three countries: Malaysia and...
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1845, G.W. Earl described how shallow seas connected islands on the west (Sumatra, Java, etc.) with the Asian continent and with similar wildlife, and islands...
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in west-central Africa, the Congo Basin, China up to the 14th century, Sumatra, Borneo, Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand,, Vanuatu, and Fiji as well...
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Tiger (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
throughout China, Sumatra and Java. Prehistoric subspecies include Panthera tigris trinilensis and P. t. soloensis of Java and Sumatra and P. t. acutidens...
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14 junks. The party sailed to the port of Singapore, travelled north to Sumatra, and around the southern tip of India, eventually crossing the Arabian...
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La Palmyre Zoo (redirect from Zoo de la Palmyre)
of campaign on conservation of rhinoceros List of the 13 programmes on conservation of rhinoceros Media related to Zoo de La Palmyre at Wikimedia Commons...
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endangered species are involved. Endangered and protected species, such as the rhinoceros, are hunted with rifles loaded with tranquilizer darts rather than real...
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the nominate form from the sub-Himalayan forests. The subspecies from Sumatra was sometimes called cristatus. Variation across populations is mainly...
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realms. It includes the Malay Peninsula and the western Indonesian islands (Sumatra, Java, Borneo and others, known as Sundaland), the Philippines, the eastern...
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List of perissodactyls (redirect from List of rhinoceroses)
backwards. Members of this order are called perissodactyls, and include rhinoceroses, tapirs, and horses. They are primarily found in Africa, southern and...
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