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Timor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (527 words) |
 | Timor is an island at the south end of the Malay Archipelago, divided between the independent state of East Timor, and West Timor, part of the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara with the surface of 11,883 sq mi (30,777 km²). |
| Timor has older geology but lacks the volcanic nature of the Lesser Sunda Islands, together with a different main axis of the island these features have been explained as the result of being a northern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate as it pushes into South East Asia. |
| Timor, the Barat Daya Islands, and the smaller islands to the northeast of Timor constitute the Timor and Wetar deciduous forests ecoregion. |
| Timor - LoveToKnow 1911 (1306 words) |
| TIMOR, an island of the Malay Archipelago, the easternmost and largest of the Lesser Sunda Islands, stretching S.W. and N.E. for 300 m. |
| Timor lies in deep water a little to the west of the hundred fathom line, which marks in this direction the proper limit of the shallow Arafura Sea, extending between it and northern Australia. |
| Timor consists of a core of ancient rocks (Archean?) upon which rest Permian and later deposits of sedimentary origin. |
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