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Naval Base Borneo
Naval Base Borneo and Naval Base Dutch East Indies was a number of United States Navy US Naval Advance Bases, Advance Bases and bases of the Australian Forces, Australian Armed Forces in Borneo and Dutch East Indies during World War II. At the start of the war, the island was divided in two: British Borneo and Dutch East Indies. Both Borneo#World War II, fell to the Empire of Japan, Japanese occupation of British Borneo, Japan occupied British Borneo and Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, the Dutch East Indies in 1942 until 1945. History To the north, the US Naval Base Philippines fell to Japan before Borneo in 1941 and 1942, as such many US Navy ships and submarines escaped the Philippines and traveled south to ports in Borneo and the Dutch East Indies. On 25 November 1941 knowing that hostile Japan actions in the Pacific was coming, Thomas C. Hart, Admiral Hart, commander of the Asiatic Fleet, movef Division (naval), Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 57 (, , and ''Edsall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Sunda Islands
The Greater Sunda Islands (Indonesian and Malay: ''Kepulauan Sunda Besar'') are four tropical islands situated within Indonesian Archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean. The islands, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi and Sumatra, are internationally recognised for their ecological diversity and rich culture. Together with the Lesser Sunda Islands to their southeast, they comprise the archipelago known as the Sunda Islands. Mainly part of Indonesia, each island is diverse in its ethnicity, culture and biological attributes. The islands have a long and rich history which has shaped their cultural backgrounds. Sumatra Geography Sumatra is the second largest, most westerly oriented Indonesian island, and the sixth largest island globally. Spanning , Sumatra is home to human civilisations and tropical rainforests, which harbour a huge range of wildlife. Its close proximity to the Equator (1º S, 101º E) dictates its tropical climate, so that it is subject to the forces of climatic events El Niño ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
