PRESENTED BYBRITTANY BORDLEY & EMILY TEEL

E a s t T i m o r

Happy Santa Cruz Day! (November 12)

Relative & Absolute location

• Southeastern Asia• Northwest of Australia in the Lesser Sunda

Islands at the eastern end of the Indonesian Archipelago

• Coordinates: 8°50′S 125°55′E

PhysicalPhysical Human Human

• Mountainous: Tatamailau, The Ramelau

• Tropical climate; generally hot and dry seasons

• Water: • North: Timor Sea (Part of

Indian Ocean)• South: Banda Sea (Part

of Pacific Ocean)

• It is a poor country with an undeveloped infrastructure, so there are no man-made features

• Only 1/5 of households before the fighting began, had electricity

• Paved roads only reached half of the villages

Characteristics of East Timor

Humans… to/on Environment

• Adapt: Wear loose clothing due to hot weather, using natural resources for shelter

• Modify: Use natural resources to modify the environment to make a better life for them

• Depend: Economy depends on coffee, gas and oil and other natural resources

Transportation

• Ports and terminals• Roadways

How do people move?

• Highways with taxis, small buses and minivans

• Six airports, only two have paved runways

• Heliports

How do goods move?

How do ideas move?

• One public TV national broadcast station

• One public radio broadcaster with stations

• A few commercial radio stations and roughly a dozen community radio stations

• 101,000 cell phones in use

• 1,800 internet users

Cristiano Ronaldo

Formal Regions

• Portugal• Indonesia

Functional Regions

• Merpati Airlines• Air North

Vernacular Regions

• Southeast• Christians/Muslims