East Timor,satellite image. North is at top. Natural colour satellite image showing East Timor with the surrounding territories shaded out. East Timor is located in Southeast Asia and comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor,the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco,and Oecusse (small,lower left),an exclave on the northwestern side of the island,within Indonesian West Timor (lower left). It lies between the Banda Sea (blue,top) and Timor Sea (blue,bottom),within the Pacific Ocean,about 640 kilometres northwest of Darwin,Australia. Image compiled from data acquired by the LANDSAT 5 and 7 satellites,in 2000 |