Indonesia, Malaysia , And Singapore

 

Indonesia:

• huge land area; multiple islands; as many as 17,500 islands but only a handful of large islands;
• five main islands
• Sumatra
• Java
• Sulawesi
• Borneo 
• New Guinea
• geographically
• westernmost island: Sumatra
• westernmost island: south of Sumatra (Java)
• southern half of large island: Bornea Island (third largest island in the world) -- Kalimantan
• archipelago: large island -- Sulawesi
• far eastern island, east half -- the whole island is know as New Guinea; island shared with Brunei and Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Indonesia half is known as Papua; 

Malaysia: very small country in / within region of Indonesia

• Peninsular Malaysia (extending from Thailand which in turns borders Cambodia, and Vietnam;
• East Malaysia on northern portion of Bornea

Singapore

• at the end of peninsular Malaysia
• a country;
• a main island;
• > 60 satellite islands/islets;
• one outlying islet.

The News: A User's Manual, Alain de Botton, c. 2014.

The News: A User's Manual, Alain de Botton, c. 2014.

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The Book Page

Today: The News: A User's Manual, Alain de Botton, c. 2014.

The book was a gift from our younger daughter many years ago.

Time to explore Uganda. Get the map out; it's time to take a look at Uganda.  

Look at all the place names in the short piece below. 

And then there's John Hanning Speke (1827 - 1864), who discovered the source of the Nile and re-named the lake we now know as Lake Victoria.

Before our time, the only way to get to Uganda was to travel for two months by sea around the perilous Cape of Good Hope bound for Dar es Salaam, then inland for another few months through bush and desert, with every likelihood that one would never return. 

In 1859, on the eve of the US Civil War, John Hanning Speke, the first European ever to enter Uganda and the man who gave Lake Inyansha its new name, Lake Victoria, made it back to Britain and gave a lecture on his travels to an almost hysterical 800-strong crowd in the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington.