Alas Strait
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Color infrared view of Rinjani Volcano on Lombok Island, May 1992. Lombok Strait and Bali is on the top, Alas Strait and Sumbawa Island is on the bottom.
Alas Strait separates Lombok and Sumbawa, two islands of Indonesia in West Nusa Tenggara province.
The strait was bridged by land until about 14,000 years before present when sea level rose to about 75 meters below present sea level, [1] unlike Lombok Strait and Alor Strait which continued to be water gaps even during the Last Glacial Maximum, at each end of a 400-mile-long island including present-day Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, Flores, Solor, Adonara, and Lembata.
See also
- Lombok Strait, on the opposite side (west) of Lombok
- Makassar Strait
- Sunda Strait
- Wallacea
References
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