WALLACE'S LINE


Meaning of WALLACE'S LINE in English

[Wal.lace's line] n [Alfred Russel Wallace] (1868): a hypothetical boundary that separates the highly distinctive floras and faunas of the Oriental and Australian biogeographic regions and passes between the islands of Bali and Lombok in Indonesia, between Borneo and Sulawesi, and between the Philippines and the Moluccas

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