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ウォーレス線せん

Meanings

1

noun

Wallace's Line

A biogeographical boundary separating the Oriental and Australian faunal regions, running between Bali and Lombok and between Borneo and Sulawesi.

ウォーレス線せんより西にし側がわにはトラが生せい息そくしているが、東ひがし側がわにはいない。
Tigers live west of Wallace's Line, but not east of it.

Kanji

線line, track

Etymology

Named after the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who first described the faunal boundary in the 19th century.