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92 relations: Ajip Rosidi, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfur people, Alor Archipelago, Archipelago, Asia, Atoni, Australasia, Australia, Babar Islands, Bali, Balinese people, Banda Arc, Barat Daya Islands, Borassus flabellifer, Corybas (plant), Corymborkis, Depauperate ecosystem, Drainage basin, Dutch East Indies, East Nusa Tenggara, East Timor, Ecoregion, Endemism, Engelhardia, Epiphyte, Erosion, Eurasian Plate, Flores, Flores shrew, Greater Sunda Islands, Indo-Australian Plate, Indonesia, Java, Java Sea, Javanese people, Kelimutu, Kemak people, Komodo dragon, Komodo National Park, Komodo rat, Lamaholot people, Liana, List of islands of Indonesia, List of rivers of Lesser Sunda Islands, List of volcanoes in Indonesia, Lombok, Lombok flying fox, Lombok Strait, Malaxis, ..., Maluku (province), Maluku Islands, Mambai people (Timor), Manggarai people, Maritime Southeast Asia, Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, Moluccans, Mount Rinjani, Oceanic climate, Oceanic trench, Pacific Ocean, Pikiran Rakyat, Plate tectonics, Pliocene, Podocarpus, Provinces of Indonesia, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ende, Sasak people, Savanna, Southeast Asia, Subduction, Sumatra, Sumba, Sumba people, Sumbawa, Sunda Arc, Sunda Islands, Sunda long-eared bat, Sunda Shelf, Sunda Trench, Sundaland, Sundanese people, Tanimbar Islands, The Malay Archipelago, Timor, Volcanic arc, Volcano, Wallace Line, Wallacea, West Nusa Tenggara, Wetar, World Wide Fund for Nature. Expand index (42 more) »
Ajip Rosidi
Ajip Rosidi (born 31 January 1938) is an Indonesian poet and short story writer.
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 18237 November 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist.
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Alfur people
Alfur, Alfurs, Alfuros, Alfures, Alifuru or Horaforas (in Dutch, Alfoeren) people is a broad term recorded at the time of the Portuguese seaborne empire to refer all the non-Muslim, non-Christian peoples living in inaccessible areas of the interior in the eastern portion of Maritime Southeast Asia.
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Alor Archipelago
The Alor Archipelago is located at the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands.
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Archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
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Asia
Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.
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Atoni
The Atoni (also known as the Atoin Meto or Dawan) people are an ethnic group on Timor, in Indonesian West Timor and the East Timorese enclave of Oecussi-Ambeno.
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Australasia
Australasia, a region of Oceania, comprises Australia, New Zealand, neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean and, sometimes, the island of New Guinea (which is usually considered to be part of Melanesia).
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Babar Islands
The Babar Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Babar) are located in Maluku Province, Indonesia between latitudes 7 degrees 31 minutes South to 8 degrees 13 minutes South and from longitudes 129 degrees 30 minutes East to 130 degrees 05 minutes East.
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Bali
Bali (Balinese:, Indonesian: Pulau Bali, Provinsi Bali) is an island and province of Indonesia with the biggest Hindu population.
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Balinese people
The Balinese (Indonesian: Suku Bali) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Bali.
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Banda Arc
The Banda Arc (main arc, Inner, and Outer) is a set of island arcs that exist in eastern Indonesia.
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Barat Daya Islands
The Barat Daya Islands (Kepulauan Barat Daya) are a group of islands in the Maluku province of Indonesia.
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Borassus flabellifer
Borassus flabellifer, commonly known as doub palm, palmyra palm, tala palm, toddy palm, wine palm, or ice apple is native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, including Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
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Corybas (plant)
Corybas, commonly known as helmet orchids, is a genus of about 120 species of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae.
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Corymborkis
Corymborkis is a pantropical genus of 6 species of terrestrial orchids.
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Depauperate ecosystem
A depauperate ecosystem is one which is lacking in numbers or variety of species, often because it lacks enough stored chemical elements required for life.
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Drainage basin
A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.
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Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies (or Netherlands East-Indies; Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Hindia Belanda) was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia.
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East Nusa Tenggara
East Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Timur – NTT) is the southernmost province of Indonesia.
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East Timor
East Timor or Timor-Leste (Tetum: Timór Lorosa'e), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (República Democrática de Timor-Leste, Repúblika Demokrátika Timór-Leste), is a sovereign state in Maritime Southeast Asia.
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Ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Engelhardia
Engelhardia is a genus of seven species of trees in the family Juglandaceae, native to southeast Asia from northern India east to Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines.
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Epiphyte
An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.
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Erosion
In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).
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Eurasian Plate
The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate which includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Chersky Range in East Siberia.
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Flores
Flores (Indonesian: Pulau Flores) is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia.
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Flores shrew
The Flores shrew (Suncus mertensi) is a white-toothed shrew found only on Flores Island, Indonesia.
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Greater Sunda Islands
The Greater Sunda Islands are a group of four large islands within the Malay Archipelago.
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Indo-Australian Plate
The Indo-Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate that includes the continent of Australia and surrounding ocean, and extends northwest to include the Indian subcontinent and adjacent waters.
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Indonesia
Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.
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Java
Java (Indonesian: Jawa; Javanese: ꦗꦮ; Sundanese) is an island of Indonesia.
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Java Sea
The Java Sea (Laut Jawa) is an extensive shallow sea on the Sunda Shelf.
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Javanese people
The Javanese (Ngoko Javanese:, Madya Javanese:,See: Javanese language: Politeness Krama Javanese:, Ngoko Gêdrìk: wòng Jåwå, Madya Gêdrìk: tiyang Jawi, Krama Gêdrìk: priyantun Jawi, Indonesian: suku Jawa) are an ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Java.
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Kelimutu
Kelimutu (pronounced) is a volcano, close to the small town of Moni in central Flores island in Indonesia.
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Kemak people
The Kemak (also known as Ema) people are an ethnic group numbering 80,000 in north-central Timor island.
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Komodo dragon
The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), also known as the Komodo monitor, is a species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang, and Padar.
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Komodo National Park
Komodo National Park is a national park in Indonesia located within the Lesser Sunda Islands in the border region between the provinces of East Nusa Tenggara and West Nusa Tenggara.
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Komodo rat
The Komodo rat (Komodomys rintjanus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found only in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia, in Rintja, Padar, Lomblen, and Pantar islands.
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Lamaholot people
The Lamahalot or Solorese people are an indigenous tribe located on Flores Island, Indonesia, and some smaller islands around it (Solor, Adonara, and Lomblen).
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Liana
A liana is any of various long-stemmed, woody vines that are rooted in the soil at ground level and use trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy to get access to well-lit areas of the forest.
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List of islands of Indonesia
The islands of Indonesia, also known as the Indonesian archipelago and formerly known as the Indian archipelago, may refer either to the islands comprising the nation-state of Indonesia or to the geographical groups which include its islands.
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List of rivers of Lesser Sunda Islands
List of rivers flowing in the Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Nusa Tenggara), Indonesia.
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List of volcanoes in Indonesia
The geography of Indonesia is dominated by volcanoes that are formed due to subduction zones between the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate.
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Lombok
Lombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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Lombok flying fox
The Lombok flying fox (Pteropus lombocensis) is a species of megabat in the genus Pteropus.
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Lombok Strait
The Lombok Strait (Selat Lombok), is a strait connecting the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean, and is located between the islands of Bali and Lombok in Indonesia.
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Malaxis
Malaxis, commonly called Adder's mouth, is a genus of terrestrial and semiepiphytic orchids.
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Maluku (province)
Maluku (English: Moluccas) is a province of Indonesia. It comprises the central and southern regions of the Maluku Islands. The main city and capital of Maluku province is Ambon on the small Ambon Island. The province had a population of at the 2010 Census, and the latest estimate (for January 2014) is 1,708,190. All the Maluku Islands were part of a single province from 1950 until 1999. In 1999 the northern part of Maluku (then comprising the Maluku Utara Regency, the Halmahera Tengah Regency and the City of Ternate) were split off to form a separate province of North Maluku (Indonesian: Maluku Utara).
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Maluku Islands
The Maluku Islands or the Moluccas are an archipelago within Banda Sea, Indonesia.
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Mambai people (Timor)
The Mambai (Mambae, Manbae) people are the second largest ethnic group after the Tetum Dili people in East Timor.
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Manggarai people
The Manggarai are an ethnic group found in western Flores in the East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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Maritime Southeast Asia
Maritime Southeast Asia is the maritime region of Southeast Asia as opposed to mainland Southeast Asia and comprises what is now Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, and Timor Leste.
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Max Carl Wilhelm Weber
Max Carl Wilhelm Weber van Bosse or Max Wilhelm Carl Weber (5 December 1852, in Bonn – 7 February 1937, in Eerbeek) was a German-Dutch zoologist and biogeographer.
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Moluccans
Moluccans are a ethnolinguistic group of related Austronesian ethnic groups indigenous to the Maluku Islands, also called the Moluccas, which have been part of Indonesia since 1950.
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Mount Rinjani
Mount Rinjani or Gunung Rinjani is an active volcano in Indonesia on the island of Lombok.
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Oceanic climate
An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.
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Oceanic trench
Oceanic trenches are topographic depressions of the sea floor, relatively narrow in width, but very long.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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Pikiran Rakyat
Pikiran Rakyat (lit. People's Thought) is a daily newspaper published in Bandung, Indonesia.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.
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Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.
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Podocarpus
Podocarpus is a genus of conifers, the most numerous and widely distributed of the podocarp family, Podocarpaceae.
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Provinces of Indonesia
The Provinces of Indonesia are the 34 largest subdivisions of the country and the highest tier of the local government (Daerah Tingkat I – level I region).
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ende
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ende (Endehen(us)) is a Latin Metropolitan archdiocese in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia.
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Sasak people
The Sasak people live mainly on the island of Lombok, Indonesia, numbering around 3.6 million (85% of Lombok's population).
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Savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.
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Subduction
Subduction is a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle.
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Sumatra
Sumatra is an Indonesian island in Southeast Asia that is part of the Sunda Islands.
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Sumba
Sumba (Pulau Sumba) is an island in eastern Indonesia.
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Sumba people
The Sumba (or Sumbese) people are an ethnic group inhabiting Sumba Island, which is divided by two regencies, namely West Sumba Regency and East Sumba Regency.
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Sumbawa
Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain, with Lombok to the west, Flores to the east, and Sumba further to the southeast.
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Sunda Arc
The Sunda Arc is a volcanic arc that produced the islands of Sumatra and Java, the Sunda Strait and the Lesser Sunda Islands.
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Sunda Islands
The Sunda Islands are a group of islands in the Malay archipelago.
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Sunda long-eared bat
The Sunda long-eared bat (Nyctophilus heran) is a species of vesper bat.
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Sunda Shelf
Geologically, the Sunda Shelf is a southeast extension of the continental shelf of Southeast Asia.
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Sunda Trench
The Sunda Trench, earlier known as and sometimes still indicated as the Java Trench, is an oceanic trench located in the Indian Ocean near Sumatra, formed where the Australian-Capricorn plates subduct under a part of the Eurasian Plate.
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Sundaland
Sundaland (also called the Sundaic region) is a biogeographical region of Southeastern Asia corresponding to a larger landmass that was exposed throughout the last 2.6 million years during periods when sea levels were lower.
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Sundanese people
The Sundanese (Sundanese:, Urang Sunda) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the western part of the Indonesian island of Java.
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Tanimbar Islands
The Tanimbar Islands, also called Timur Laut, are a group of about 65 islands in the Maluku province of Indonesia, including Fordata, Larat, Maru, Molu, Nuswotar, Selaru, Selu, Seira, Wotap, Wuliaru and Yamdena.
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The Malay Archipelago
The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace which chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight-year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea.
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Timor
Timor is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, north of the Timor Sea.
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Volcanic arc
A volcanic arc is a chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate, positioned in an arc shape as seen from above.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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Wallace Line
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 Thomas Henry Huxley, that separates the ecozones of Asia and Wallacea, a transitional zone between Asia and Australia.
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Wallacea
Wallacea is a biogeographical designation for a group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep-water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves.
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West Nusa Tenggara
West Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Barat – NTB) is a province of Indonesia.
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Wetar
Wetar is a tropical island which belongs to the Indonesian province of Maluku and is the largest island of the Maluku Barat Daya Islands (literally Southwest Islands) of the Maluku Islands.
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World Wide Fund for Nature
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of the wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human impact on the environment.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Sunda_Islands
