Where Australia Collides with Asia The epic voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and the origin
Where Australia Collides with Asia The uplift of the mountains in Papua New Guinea pushed remnants of the rainforests of Gondwan ...
Where Australia Collides with Asia of north-east Queensland. Asia’s green imperial pigeon has a gape and gullet which is enormou ...
14 Alfred Russel Wallace – The Voyage to the Aru Islands From Lombok, Wallace secured passage on a small schooner for the voyage ...
Alfred Russel Wallace – The Voyage to the Aru Islands the hip to halfway down the thigh, and the universal Malay sarong, of gay ...
The endemic animals of Sulawesi such as the crested black macaque, the bizarre babirusa and the cow-like anoa are more related t ...
The Macassans followed the monsoonal winds, leaving in December or January at the beginning of the western monsoon and returning ...
To Wallace’s untutored eye the vessel appeared as a wilderness of masts, yards and spars of wood or bamboo, lashed together with ...
It was Portuguese explorers who were the first Europeans to reach the Banda Islands in 1512. They had come in search of the valu ...
forest of nutmeg trees and the larger kenari shade trees that protect them from the harsh tropical sun. These remote islands are ...
The next stopping point for the Macassans were the Kai islands which maps show are near the hinge point where the islands of Mal ...
Despite his initial trepidation when first contemplating this voyage, Wallace declared that he had never, either before or since ...
season when Wallace was there, Dobbo attracted nearly 500 people of many different races. There were Chinese, Macassan, Bugis, C ...
The great birdwing butterfly or Ornithoptera priamus poseidon The first specimens of birds of paradise to arrive in Europe came ...
if he could get across to the main island of Aru he might still find some. This voyage across the narrow straits was delayed bec ...
The King Bird of Paradise when first brought to me exacted greater admiration and delight than I have experienced on any similar ...
It was four months later that Wallace was first able to see the greater bird of paradise in full plumage with its long trains of ...
The greater bird of paradise, Paradisaea apoda, J. Wolf and J. Smit, Biodiversity Library 156 Where Australia Collides with Asia ...
the ‘courthouse’. For six weeks he was confined indoors while his feet healed from sandfly bites that had swelled up and become ...
His paper, published in 1857, suggested that these islands had once been connected to New Guinea by a land bridge and subsequent ...
15 Alfred Russel Wallace – The ‘Letter from Ternate’ On Wallace’s return to Macassar after a nine-month absence in Aru he found ...
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