Wallace Line
Línea de Wallace
- Date
- 1859-1863 · confidence high
- Place
- Lombok Strait, between Bali and Lombok, Indonesia
- Credited to
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- People
- 👤 Alfred Russel Wallace1823–1913
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
A biogeographic boundary between Asian and Australian fauna that Wallace traced after his travels through the Malay Archipelago. It founded biogeography as a discipline.
Wallace wrote in Ternate (1858) the essay that prompted the publication of the theory of natural selection.
What it led to
- scientific biogeography
- the concept of Wallacea
- geological explanations based on sea levels