Wallacea en · PROPN
Etymology
From Wallace + -ia. Named after Alfred Russel Wallace; see Wallace Line.
Meanings
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A group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves.
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.
2020 January 9, Karen Weintraub, “Trove of New Bird Species Found on Remote Indonesian Islands”, in The New York Times: