Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Borneo" ¶ 38
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Borneo and has
Borneo has significant cave systems.
The World Wide Fund for Nature has stated that 361 animal and plant species have been discovered in Borneo since 1996.
Borneo is the third largest island in the world and the original vegetation was mostly Borneo lowland rain forests although much of this has been cleared with wildlife retreating to the Borneo montane rain forests inland.
The-long park has pleasant walkways bordered by shrubs and the mangrove fringed Pulau Ranggu where two species of monkeys live, including the notable Proboscis Monkey only found in Borneo.
Beginning with his opposition to action in Borneo in 1965, he has contested almost every British action-arguing against action in Aden, the depopulation of Diego Garcia, the Falklands War ( especially the sinking of the General Belgrano ), the Gulf War, and action in Kosovo and Iraq, saying, " I will resist a war with every sinew in my body ".
It is spoken natively by 40 million people across the Malacca Strait, including the coasts of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia and the eastern coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, and has been established as a native language of part of western coastal Sarawak and West Kalimantan in Borneo.
Agitation for secession has since been sporadic on the culturally distinct large island of Borneo in the states of Sabah and Sarawak.
Religious differences between Muslim and Christian natives of Borneo has led, at various times, to communal tensions.
Salak has done solo exploration to regions such as Borneo, Libya, Iran, Madagascar, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
More recently the Banded Pitta has been split into three new species, one endemic to Java and Bali, one endemic to Borneo and one found in Sumatra and the Thai-Malay Peninsula.
From Burma it has a continuous distribution ( in suitable habitat ) throughout most of South East Asia, and down into Borneo and Sumatra, as well as on the Andaman Islands.
Genetic analysis has shown that the Asian golden cat, along with the bay cat and the marbled cat, diverged from the other felids about 9. 4 million years ago, and that the Asian golden cat and bay cat differed as long as four million years ago, suggesting that the bay cat was a different species long before the isolation of Borneo.
Borneo has one of the world's highest deforestation rates.
Although Borneo has 25 wildlife reserves, only three are actually in existence, with the others only proposed.
The Bristlehead is endemic to the island of Borneo, throughout the lowlands of which it has been recorded up to 1200 m asl, though its distribution is sparse, patchy and unpredictable.
It has two subvarieties, the " grey tail silver " or " Pinoh arowana ," and the " yellow tail silver ," each found in a different part of the island of Borneo in Indonesia.
The Borneo Elephant | Borneo elephant is smaller than other Asian elephant subspecies, and has relatively large ears, a longer tail, and straighter tusks.
Since inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, and extortion in their fight for an independent Islamic state in western Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago, with a claimed overarching goal of creating a Pan-Islamic superstate across the Malay portions of Southeast Asia, spanning, from east to west, the large island of Mindanao, the Sulu Archipelago ( Basilan and Jolo islands ), the large island of Borneo ( Malaysia and Indonesia ), the South China Sea, and the Malay Peninsula ( Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Burma ).
In early 50's a batch of bright young Filipino forestry graduates of the University of The Philippines College of Forestry ( UPCF ) made their way to " British North Borneo " ( Sabah ) on a pioneering quest that has contributed in the establishment of the " Sabah Forestry Department " in Malaysia, including the famous " Sepilok Research Centre " where it also shelters the world famous orangutan sanctuary.
SMC has also expanded its oil and energy business with the purchase of Esso Malaysia Berhad ( 65 %), ExxonMobil Borneo Sdn Bhd ( 100 %) and ExxonMobil Malaysia Sdn Bhd ( 100 %) for US $ 577. 3 million.
It has also been suggested that the Yeren is actually a new species of orangutan, one that is ground-dwelling, bipedal and native to mainland Asia instead of Borneo or Sumatra.

Borneo and 19
Finally, in May 1945, the division received orders to deploy overseas again and by 19 June they arrived on Morotai Island, where they began to prepare for operations in Borneo, as part of Operation Oboe.
Laraʼ ( also called Luru, Berkati, Bakati, Bekatiq, Bekatiʼ Nyam-Pelayo, Bekatiʼ Kendayan, and Rara Bakatiʼ ) is a language spoken by some 19, 000 people in Borneo, on both the Indonesian side ( West Kalimantan ) and Malaysian side ( Sarawak ) of the island.
Satellite image of the island of Borneo on August 19, 2002, showing smoke from burning peat swamp forests
Walker was appointed COMBRITBOR on 19 December with command over all British forces ( land, sea and air ) in the colonies of Sarawak and North Borneo, and the protectorate of Brunei.

Borneo and 800
The archipelago is around 800 km from the Asian mainland and is located between Taiwan and Borneo.

Borneo and 000
There are about 15, 000 species of flowering plants with 3, 000 species of trees ( 267 species are dipterocarps ), 221 species of terrestrial mammals and 420 species of resident birds in Borneo.
In the northwest of Borneo, the Dayak ethnic group is represented by the Iban with about 710, 000 members.
The non-Indonesian parts of Borneo are of Brunei ( 400, 000 ) and East Malaysia ( 5, 625, 000 ), the latter comprising the states of Sabah and Sarawak.
Archaeological evidence indicates that humans arrived on Borneo at least 120, 000 years ago, probably by sea from Asia-China mainland during an ice age period when the sea was lower and distances between islands shorter ( See History of Borneo and Papua New Guinea ).
Approximately 14, 000 years ago, mainland Australia was linked to both New Guinea and Tasmania ; the British Isles formed an extension of continental Europe via the dry beds of the English Channel and North Sea ; and the dry basin of the South China Sea linked Sumatra, Java and Borneo to the Asian mainland.
The Asian golden cat is found in Sumatra and Malaysia, which only separated from Borneo about 10, 000 to 15, 000 years ago.
At Batu Lintang camp, also in Borneo, death orders were found which proposed the execution of some 2, 000 POWs and civilian internees on September 15, 1945.
Their most important discovery was a human skull in deposits dated by radiocarbon to about 40, 000 years ago, the earliest date for modern humans in Borneo.
It is located in the Sulu Archipelago, between Borneo and Mindanao, and has a population of approximately 300, 000 people.
The oil in the Palembang ( Sumatra ), Djambi, Medan and Borneo fields in Balikpapan and Tarakan produced 7, 938, 000 tonnes in 1940 ; perhaps a greater yield than California and Iran.
During July 1945, when the final Allied offensive of the Borneo Campaign took place as Operation Oboe Two, the Battle of Balikpapan, 1TAF reached a strength of some 25, 000 personnel, augmented by the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber squadrons of No. 82 Wing transferring in from North Western Area Command.
In his memoirs, former leading aircraftsman Jack Wong Sue claimed that Z Special Unit commandos in Borneo killed 1, 700 Japanese for the loss of 112 commandos, as well as training more than 6, 000 guerrillas.

Borneo and inhabitants
By population, it ranks 13th, having fewer inhabitants than Borneo or Sulawesi, but more than Salsette ( Mumbai ) or Cuba.
Many of the inhabitants of the Southeast Asian island of Borneo ( now Kalimantan, Indonesia and States of Sarawak and Sabah, Malaysia ), the Dayak, live traditionally in buildings known as a longhouse, Rumah panjang / Rumah Betang in Indonesian, rumah panjai in Iban.
: To the southern inhabitants of Scotland, the state of the mountains and islands is equally known with that of Borneo and Sumatra: of both they have only heard a little, and guess the rest.

0.441 seconds.