Sequencher cornell licence4/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Large volumes of sediment were shed into basins, which scattered offshore to the west, north and east of Borneo as well into a Neogene basin which is currently exposed in large areas of eastern and southern Sabah. The uplift may have also resulted from shortening due to the counter-clockwise rotation of Borneo between 20 and 10 mega-annum (Ma) as a consequence of Australia-Southeast Asia collision. ![]() In the early Miocene uplift of the accretionary complex occurred as a result of underthrusting of thinned continental crust in northwest. The oceanic part of the proto-South China Sea was subducted during the Paleogene period and a large accretionary complex formed along the northwestern of the island of Borneo. At the beginning of the Cenozoic Borneo formed a promontory of Sundaland which partly separated from Asian mainland by the proto-South China Sea. The Red River Fault is included.īorneo was formed through Mesozoic accretion of microcontinental fragments, ophiolite terranes and island arc crust onto a Paleozoic continental core. Location of Borneo in Maritime Southeast Asia. Nevertheless, the same manuscript also mentioned Barune (Brunei) and other polities on the island. The Javanese manuscript Nagarakretagama, written by Majapahit court poet Mpu Prapanca in 1365, mentioned the island as Nusa Tanjungnagara, which means the island of the Tanjungpura Kingdom. In 1225, it was also mentioned by the Chinese official Chau Ju-Kua (趙汝适). In 977, Chinese records began to use the term Bo-ni to refer to Borneo. In earlier times, the island was known by other names. ![]() Indonesian historian Slamet Muljana suggests that the name Kalamanthana was derived from Sanskrit terms kala (time or season) and manthana (churning, kindling or creating fire by friction), which possibly describes the heat of the weather. The local population called it Klemantan or Kalimantan, which was derived from the Sanskrit word Kalamanthana, meaning "burning weather" possibly to describe its hot and humid tropical weather. The name Borneo may derive from the Sanskrit word váruṇa ( वरुण), meaning either "water" or Varuna, the Hindu god of rain. On a map from around 1601, Brunei city is referred to as Borneo, and the whole island is also labelled Borneo. Internationally it is known as Borneo, derived from European contact with the Brunei kingdom in the 16th century during the Age of Exploration. A little more than half of the island is in the Northern Hemisphere, including Brunei and the Malaysian portion, while the Indonesian portion spans the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The sovereign state of Brunei, located on the north coast, comprises about 1% of Borneo's land area. Additionally, the Malaysian federal territory of Labuan is situated on a small island just off the coast of Borneo. The population in Borneo is 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses). In the north, the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak make up about 26% of the island. Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory. The island is politically divided among three countries: Malaysia and Brunei in the north, and Indonesia to the south. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra. ![]() 23,053,723 (2020 Censuses) (2020)īorneo ( / ˈ b ɔːr n i oʊ/ Indonesian: Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. ![]()
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