Editing Lombok (section)

== Geography ==
[[File:Gunung Rinjani from Gili Air 1.jpg|thumb|[[Mount Rinjani]] seen from [[Gili Air]]]]
[[File:Mt Rinjani and segara anak lake.jpg|thumb|[[Lake Segara Anak]] on top of Mt. Rinjani]]

The island is to the immediate east of the [[Lombok Strait]] which marks the [[biogeography|biogeographical]] division between the fauna of the [[Indomalayan realm]] and the distinctly different fauna of [[Australasian realm|Australasia]]; this distinction, known as the "[[Wallace Line]]" (or "Wallace's Line") takes its name from [[Alfred Russel Wallace]]<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Beccaloni |first1=George |last2=Smith |first2=Charles |title=Other Things Named After Wallace |url=http://wallacefund.info/other-things-named-after-wallace |access-date=2021-07-28 |website=The Alfred Russel Wallace Website |language=en |archive-date=2012-06-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627165434/http://wallacefund.info/other-things-named-after-wallace |url-status=dead }}</ref> (1823–1913), who was the first person to comment on the division between the two regions, as well as on the abrupt boundary between the two biomes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The World's Biomes |url=http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/index.php |access-date=2010-10-06 |website=University of California Museum of Paleontology |language=en}}</ref> Lombok is part of the [[Lesser Sundas deciduous forests]] [[ecoregion]].

To the east of Lombok lies the [[Alas Strait]], a narrow body of water separating the island of Lombok from the nearby island of [[Sumbawa]].

The island's topography is dominated by the centrally-located [[stratovolcano]] [[Mount Rinjani]], the second-highest volcano in Indonesia, which rises to {{convert|3726|m}}, making Lombok the [[List of islands by highest point|8th-highest island]]. The most recent eruption of Rinjani occurred in September 2016 at Gunung Barujari. In a 2010 eruption, ash was reported as rising {{convert|2|km|abbr= off}} into the atmosphere from the Barujari cone in Rinjani's caldera lake of Segara Anak. [[Lava]] flowed into the caldera lake, raising its temperature, while ash fall damaged crops on the slopes of Rinjani. The volcano and its crater lake, [[Lake Segara Anak|Segara Anak]] (child of the sea), are protected by the [[Gunung Rinjani National Park]] established in 1997. Recent evidence indicates an ancient volcano, Mount Samalas, of which now only a caldera remains, was the source of the [[1257 Samalas eruption]], one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history, which caused worldwide changes in weather.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Watson |first=Traci |date=30 September 2013 |title=Source of Massive Volcanic Eruption Found in Indonesia |language=en |work=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/30/salamas-volcano-forgotten-pompeii/2891495/ |access-date=19 October 2013}}</ref>

The [[Highland (geography)|highlands]] of Lombok are forest-clad and mostly undeveloped. The [[lowland]]s are highly cultivated. [[Rice]], [[soybean]]s, [[coffee]], [[tobacco]], [[cotton]], [[cinnamon]], [[Cocoa bean|cacao]], [[clove]]s, [[cassava]], [[Maize|corn]], [[coconut]]s, [[copra]], [[banana]]s and [[vanilla]] are the major crops grown in the fertile soils of the island. The southern part of the island is fertile but drier, especially toward the southern coastline.

===List of islands===
Lombok is surrounded by many islets, including:
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* Northwest: colloquially the [[Gili Islands]] (North Lombok Regency)
** Gili Trawangan
** Gili Meno
** Gili Air
* Northeast (East Lombok Regency)
** Gili Lawang
** Gili Sulat
** Gili Petagan
** Gili Bidara (Pasaran)
** Gili Lampu<ref>''West Nusa Tenggara Map, Provincial Tourism and Cultural Office, West Nusa Tenggara, 2008''</ref>
** Gili Puyu
** Gili Kondo
** East Coast of Nusa Tenggara
** Gili Puyuh
** Gili Sulat
* Southeast (East Lombok Regency)
** Gili Indah
** Gili Merengke
** Gili Belek
** Gili Ular
* South Coast (West Lombok Regency)
** Gili Solet
** Gili Sarang Burung
** Gili Kawu
** Gili Puyuh
* Southwest ([[Sekotong Peninsula]], West Lombok Regency)
** Gili Nanggu
** Gili Sudak
** Gili Tangkong
** Gili Kedis
** Gili Poh
** Gili Genting
** Gili Lontar
** Gili Layar
** Gili Amben
** Gili Gede
** Gili Anyaran
** Gili Layar
** Gili Asahan
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