Wallacea

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves.

Word forms

Wallacea

Etymology

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

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