Where Australia Collides with Asia The epic voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and the origin

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Where Australia Collides with Asia

Staten Island, 26
Stebbing, George James, 65
Stevens, Samuel, 108, 126–7, 134–5
Stingray Bay, 31, 35
Stokes, Captain Pringle, 53, 60–1, 77–8
Strait of Magellan, 60
Sulawesi, 9, 129, 136, 138, 141–4, 192
Sultan Bolief, 161
Sydney, 81–5, 89
Systema Naturae, 23


Tahiti, 29–30, 45
Tarsier, 144
Tasman, Abel, 30–1
Tasmania, 14, 31, 50, 89–90
Tenerife, 58, 67
Ternate, 159–76, 183–4, 194–5
Tidore, 161–3, 168, 198
Tierra del Fuego, 26, 45, 53, 59–60, 63–
5, 71–5, 92, 96
Torres Strait, 42–3
Torres, Luis Vas de, 31
Toxodon, 69
Transit of Venus, 23–4, 27–9, 30
Tree-kangaroo, 8, 137, 140, 157, 166,
Trepang, 144–5
Turtles, 39–40


Umbrellabird, 111
Usk, 100
Ussher, Archbishop James, 67


Valparaiso, 75, 84
Van Diemen’s Land, 31, 90
Vestiges of the Natural History of
Creation, 104, 123
Victorian riflebird, 20
Voyage of the Beagle, The, 97, 99

Waigeo, 163, 166, 170–1, 176, 181, 183
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 8–10, 100–5,
107, 110–11, 115, 117–18, 126–7, 130,
136, 138, 141–2, 148–9, 158–9, 166,
169, 183, 191, 194, 196, 198
Wallace, Herbert, 108–10, 188
Wallace, William, 104
Wallace House, 198
Wallace Line, 8, 136–8, 192
Wallacea, 10, 141
Wallace’s golden birdwing, 169–70
Wallerawang, 87
Wattle, 15–17
Weber Line, 192
Wedgwood, Emma, 97–8, 118–122
Wedgwood, Josiah, 62–3
Wedgwood, Susannah, 54
Wegener, Alfred, 12, 14, 138, 158
Wentworth Falls, 85–6
White, Reverend Gilbert, 50, 55
Wilberforce, Bishop Samuel, 180
Wollemi Pines, 15
Wombeyan Caves, 18

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