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Surin Islands, the Glossary

The Surin Islands (translit) is a continental archipelago of five islands in the Andaman Sea, from the Thai mainland.^[1]

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Geography of Phang Nga province
Important Bird Areas of Indian Ocean islands
Important Bird Areas of Thailand
Islands of the Andaman Sea
Tourist attractions in Phang Nga province

Andaman Sea

The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and the west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated from the Bay of Bengal to its west by the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands.

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Andreas du Plessis de Richelieu

Andreas du Plessis de Richelieu (24 February 1852 – 25 March 1932) was a Danish naval officer and businessman who became a Siamese admiral and minister of the navy.

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Asian water monitor

The Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator) is a large varanid lizard native to South and Southeast Asia.

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Austronesian peoples

The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, are a large group of peoples in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that speak Austronesian languages.

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Bangkok Post

The Bangkok Post is an English-language daily newspaper published in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Barringtonia

Barringtonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lecythidaceae first described as a genus with this name in 1775.

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Bat

Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera.

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Beach stone-curlew

The beach stone-curlew (Esacus magnirostris) also known as beach thick-knee is a large, ground-dwelling bird that occurs in Australasia, the islands of South-east Asia.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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BirdLife International

BirdLife International is a global partnership of non-governmental organizations that strives to conserve birds and their habitats.

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Bryde's whale

Bryde's whale, or the Bryde's whale complex, putatively comprises three species of rorqual and maybe four.

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Burma Plate

The Burma Plate is a minor tectonic plate or microplate located in Southeast Asia, sometimes considered a part of the larger Eurasian Plate.

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Cerbera odollam

Cerbera odollam is a tree species in the family Apocynaceae commonly known as the suicide tree or pong-pong.

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Christie Island

Christie Island is an island in the Mergui Archipelago and the southernmost point of Burma (Myanmar).

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Clouded monitor

The clouded monitor (Varanus nebulosus) is a species of monitor lizard, native to Burma, Thailand and Indochina to West Malaysia, Singapore, Java, Sumatra, and Vietnam.

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Cyrtodactylus surin

Cyrtodactylus surin is a species of gecko that is endemic to the Surin Islands in Thailand.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Granitoid

A granitoid is a generic term for a diverse category of coarse-grained igneous rocks that consist predominantly of quartz, plagioclase, and alkali feldspar.

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Green imperial pigeon

The green imperial pigeon (Ducula aenea) is a large forest pigeon.

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Green sea turtle

The green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), also known as the green turtle, black (sea) turtle or Pacific green turtle, is a species of large sea turtle of the family Cheloniidae.

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Hawksbill sea turtle

The hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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Island

An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water.

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Khao Lak

Khao Lak (เขาหลัก) is a small village in Phang Nga provice, located South of the main mountain. Surin Islands and Khao Lak are geography of Phang Nga province and Tourist attractions in Phang Nga province.

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Khura Buri district

Khura Buri (คุระบุรี) is a district (amphoe) in Phang Nga province in the south of Thailand.

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Large green pigeon

The large green pigeon (Treron capellei) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of commanders-in-chief of the Royal Thai Navy

The Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Navy (ผู้บัญชาการทหารเรือไทย), currently Admiral Adung Phan-iam, who is headquartered in Bangkok.

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List of islands of Thailand

This is a list of islands of Thailand. Surin Islands and list of islands of Thailand are islands of Thailand.

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List of national parks of Thailand

National parks in Thailand (อุทยานแห่งชาติ) are defined as areas that contain "natural resources of ecological importance or unique beauty, or flora and fauna of special importance". Surin Islands and List of national parks of Thailand are national parks of Thailand.

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List of Protected Areas Regional Offices of Thailand

Since the beginning a century ago, forest management in Thailand has undergone many changes, in form of reclassifications, name changes and management changes. Surin Islands and List of Protected Areas Regional Offices of Thailand are national parks of Thailand.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Manta ray

Manta rays are large rays belonging to the genus Mobula (formerly its own genus Manta).

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Mergui Archipelago

The Mergui Archipelago (also Myeik Archipelago or Myeik Kyunzu; မြိတ်ကျွန်းစု) is located in far southern Myanmar (Burma) and is part of the Tanintharyi Region.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.

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Moken

The Moken (also Mawken or Morgan;; translit) are an Austronesian people of the Mergui Archipelago, a group of approximately 800 islands claimed by both Myanmar and Thailand, and the Surin Islands.

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Moken language

Moken is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by inhabitants in southern Myanmar and Southern Thailand, who refer to themselves as Moken (people) and Mawken.

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Moklen language

Moklen is an Austronesian language spoken on the western coast of southern Thailand.

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Monsoon of South Asia

The Monsoon of South Asia is among several geographically distributed global monsoons.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Myanmar–Thailand border

The Myanmar–Thailand border is the international border between the territory of Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Thailand.

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Nicobar pigeon

The Nicobar pigeon or Nicobar dove (Caloenas nicobarica, Car: ma-kūö-kö) is a bird found on small islands and in coastal regions from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, east through the Indonesian Archipelago, to the Solomons and Palau.

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Olive ridley sea turtle

The olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea), also known commonly as the Pacific ridley sea turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Cheloniidae.

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Oral tradition

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.

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Orange-breasted green pigeon

The orange-breasted green pigeon (Treron bicinctus) is a pigeon found across tropical Asia south of the Himalaya across parts of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

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Phang Nga province

Phang Nga (พังงา) is one of the southern provinces (Changwat) of Thailand, on the shore of the Andaman Sea to the west and Phang Nga Bay to the south.

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Phuket province

Phuket is one of the southern provinces (''changwat'') of Thailand. Surin Islands and Phuket province are islands of Thailand and islands of the Andaman Sea.

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Pied imperial pigeon

The pied imperial pigeon (Ducula bicolor) is a relatively large, pied species of pigeon.

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Rai, ngan, and tarang wa

The rai, ngan, and tarang wa or square wa are customary Thai units of area, used in the measurement of land.

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Regions of Thailand

Thailand is variably divided into different sets of regions, the most notable of which are the six-region grouping used in geographic studies, and the four-region grouping consistent with the Monthon administrative regional grouping system formerly used by the Ministry of Interior.

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Reticulated python

The reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus) is a python species native to South and Southeast Asia.

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Richelieu Rock

Richelieu Rock (called Hin Plo Naam in Thai) is a dive site in Thailand in the Andaman Sea about from the mainland.

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Royal Thai Navy

The Royal Thai Navy (Abrv: RTN, ทร.; กองทัพเรือไทย) is the naval warfare force of Thailand.

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Satun province

Satun (สตูล, is one of the southern provinces (changwat) of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from north clockwise) Trang, Phatthalung, and Songkhla. To the south it borders Perlis of Malaysia.

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Similan Islands

The Similan Islands (หมู่เกาะสิมิลัน,,, Malay: Kepulauan Sembilan) is a continental archipelago in the Andaman Sea off the coast of, and part of, Phang Nga Province in southern Thailand. Surin Islands and Similan Islands are geography of Phang Nga province, important Bird Areas of Indian Ocean islands, important Bird Areas of Thailand, islands of Thailand, islands of the Andaman Sea, national parks of Thailand and Tourist attractions in Phang Nga province.

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Skink

Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha.

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Southern Thailand

Southern Thailand, Southern Siam or Tambralinga is a southernmost cultural region of Thailand, separated from Central Thailand region by the Kra Isthmus.

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Subduction

Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.

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Sunda Plate

The Sunda Plate is a minor tectonic plate straddling the Equator in the Eastern Hemisphere on which the majority of Southeast Asia is located.

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Tambon

Tambon (ตำบล) is a local governmental unit in Thailand.

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Thai people

Thai people (ชาวไทย; endonym), Chao Phraya Thai (ไทยลุ่มเจ้าพระยา; exonym and also academic), Central Thai people (คนภาคกลาง; exonym and also domestically), Southern Thai people (คนใต้; exonym and also domestically), Siamese, Thai Siam (ไทยสยาม; historical exonym and sometimes domestically), Tai Noi people (ไทน้อย; historical endonym and sometimes domestically), are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Thailand.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surin_Islands

Also known as Ko Kai, Ko Ri, Ko Surin Nuea, Ko Surin Tai, Koh Kai, Koh Ri, Koh Surin Nua, Koh Surin Tai, Mu Ko Surin National Park, Surin Island.

, Reticulated python, Richelieu Rock, Royal Thai Navy, Satun province, Similan Islands, Skink, Southern Thailand, Subduction, Sunda Plate, Tambon, Thai people, Thailand, UNESCO, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Urak Lawoi, Urak Lawoiʼ language, Veneration of the dead, Vulnerable species, Whale shark.

Surin Islands, the Glossary

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See also

Geography of Phang Nga province

Important Bird Areas of Indian Ocean islands

Important Bird Areas of Thailand

Islands of the Andaman Sea

Tourist attractions in Phang Nga province

References