Peleng

See also: pələng

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Peleng

1. An island of the Banggai archipelago, in the province of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
   • 2020 January 9, Karen Weintraub, “Trove of New Bird Species Found on Remote Indonesian Islands”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The Indonesian islands of Taliabu, Peleng and Batudaka are in a region named Wallacea, after Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th-century naturalist who developed a theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin’s.