The Alor Archipelago is located at the easternmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands

Lesser Sunda Islands

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Alor is the largest island in the archipelago which is located at its eastern end. Other islands in the archipelago include Pantar

Pantar

Pantar is the second largest island in the Indonesian Alor Archipelago, after Alor. To the east is the island of Alor and other small islands in the archipelago; to the west is the Alor Strait, which separates it from the Solor Archipelago. To the south is the Ombai Strait, and 72 km away,...

, Kepa

Kepa

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, Buaya, Ternate (Alor) (not to be confused with Ternate

Ternate

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, North Moluccas

North Maluku

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), Pura and Tereweng. Administratively, the Alor archipelago forms its own regency

Alor Regency

Alor Regency is a regency in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. Established in 1958, Alor Regency administers the Alor Archipelago with its seat in Kalabahi on Alor Island....

 (Indonesian: kabupaten) within the province of East Nusa Tenggara

East Nusa Tenggara

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. The Regency is divided into seventeen subdistricts and 158 villages, and has a population estimated in 2008 at 180,487.

To the east of the archipelago is the Ombai Strait

Ombai Strait

The Ombai Strait is the strait which separates the Alor Archipelago from the islands of Wetar, Atauro, and Timor in the Lesser Sunda Islands. Wetar is part of the Maluku Province of Indonesia, the Alor Archipelago and the western part of Timor are part of the province of East Nusa Tenggara,...

, which separates it from the islands of Wetar

Wetar

The tropical island of Wetar belongs to the Indonesian province of Maluku and is the largest island of the Barat Daya Islands . It lies east of the Lesser Sunda Islands, which include nearby Alor and Timor, but it is politically part of the Maluku Islands...

 and Atauro, the latter belonging to East Timor

East Timor

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. To the south, across the Strait of Alor, lies the western part of Timor

Timor

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. To the north lies the Banda Sea

Banda Sea

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. To the west lies the rest of the Sunda Islands

Sunda Islands

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External links

• Van Galen's Memorandum on the Alor Islands in 1946 http://lnu.se/polopoly_fs/1.24684!HumaNetten%2C%20Nr%2025%2C%20v%C3%A5ren%202010.pdf