Meanings
proper noun
- An island of the Banggai archipelago in the province of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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.
2020 January 9, Karen Weintraub, “Trove of New Bird Species Found on Remote Indonesian Islands”, in The New York Times
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APA
Peleng. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Peleng
MLA
“Peleng.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Peleng. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Peleng,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Peleng.
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