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Lesser Sunda Islands
The
Lesser Sunda Islands
or
Nusa Tenggara
("Southeastern Islands") are a group of
islands
in
Maritime Southeast Asia
, north of
Australia
. Together with the
Greater Sunda Islands
to the west they make up the
Sunda Islands
. The islands are part of a
volcanic arc
, the
Sunda Arc
, formed by
subduction
along the
Sunda Trench
in the
Java Sea
.
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