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The Wallace line or Wallace's line is a faunal boundary line drawn in 1859 by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and named by the English biologist T.H. Huxley. It separates the biogeographical realms of Asia and 'Wallacea', a transitional zone between Asia and Australia also called the Malay Archipelago and the Australian Archipelago ...
Australian National Line was formed on 1 October 1956 as the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission with the passing of the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission Act. [1] The organisation took about forty ships previously operated by the Australian Shipping Board, which had been formed in 1946 by the Australian Federal Government. [2]
In 1956 the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission (trading as the Australian National Line) took over the responsibilities of the board, and took around forty ships previously operated by the Australian Shipping Board. [4] The Board continued to function until ceasing to exist on 17 November 1961.
The gaps are considered to be large enough to make accidental rafting from one side to another to be unlikely events. Apart from birds, species that have managed to cross this line include those that have been moved by humans. There is a transitional zone adjacent to the Wallace Line that is termed Wallacea. This is a zone where examples of ...
The North Coast Steam Navigation Company was a shipping company that operated in Australia, [1] formed as the Grafton Steam Navigation Company in 1855. [2] The company was later renamed the Clarence & Richmond River Steam Navigation Company before being renamed in December 1888 as the Clarence, Richmond & Macleay River Steam Navigation Company.
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McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co (MMC) was founded in 1875 in London by Scottish sea captains, Andrew McIlwraith and Malcolm McEacharn.In 1876 it began operating ships to take British migrants to Australia under contract to the Government of Queensland.
According to the Plate Tectonics theory, the subduction zone of the Australian plate beneath the Asian Plate, is reflected by the Sunda Trench and the line of volcanoes of Java, Bali, Lombok, etc., i.e.it trends E-W. In other words, the movement is parallel to the Wallace line - NOT across it.Sahul