The name "Sunda" goes back to antiquity, appearing in Ptolemy's Geography, written around 150 AD. [18] In an 1852 publication, English navigator George Windsor Earl advanced the idea of a "Great Asiatic Bank", based in part on common features of mammals found in Java, Borneo and Sumatra. More @Wikipedia
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