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To: SunkenCiv

I had to look it up, Wallacea is part of Indonesia. From widipedia:

Wallacea is a biogeographical designation for a group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep-water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves.Wallacea includes Sulawesi, the largest island in the group, as well as Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Sumba, Timor, Halmahera, Buru, Seram, and many smaller islands

(Sulawesi is the big island that looks like a spider monkey, at least to me)


5 posted on 06/11/2022 6:50:33 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: Doctor Congo
Sulawesi is the island which used to be known as Celebes.

Wallacea is named for Alfred Russel Wallace, British nautralist (1823-1913), who came up with the idea of evolution independently of Charles Darwin. He discovered the Wallace Line, beyond which marsupial mammals dominated (as opposed to placental mammals on the near side of the line)--mainly New Guinea and Australia.

6 posted on 06/11/2022 5:46:18 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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