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Geographic Locations > Islands > Borneo
Environment and Public Health > Environment > Islands > Borneo
Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Islands > Borneo
Geographic Locations > Asia > Asia, Southeastern > Borneo

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Borneo  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

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Note

  • an island in the Malay Archipelago; 3d largest island in the world

Scope note

  • An island in the Malay Archipelago, east of Sumatra, north of Java, and west of Celebes. It is the third largest island in the world. Its name is a Portuguese alteration of BRUNEI, located on it. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p163; Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p73)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D001893

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