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 way the islands of the Moluccas (Maluku) had been bent back upon themselves.
The first of the Dutch geologists to accept Wegener’s theory was Gustaff Molengraaff,
followed by Smit Sibinga who wrote:

The small Sunda Islands, Celebes and the Moluccas represent marginal chains originally cut

off from the Sunda land mass; at first they formed an ordinary double chain, but afterwards

took on their present shape due to a collision with the Australian continent.

Relief map showing the collision of Australia with Asia. Land elevation based on NASA radar topography, sea
bathymetry based on NASA satellite altimetry and ship soundings. University of California, San Diego

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