Wallacea

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Wallacea, outlined in red, in the context of Indonesia (white)

Etymology

From Wallace +‎ -ia. Named after Alfred Russel Wallace; see Wallace Line.

Proper noun

Wallacea

  1. A group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves.
    • 2020 January 9, Karen Weintraub, “Trove of New Bird Species Found on Remote Indonesian Islands”, in The New York Times:
      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.

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