Wallacea

English

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^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• Wallacean

Related terms

• Wallace Line