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Meaning of Wallacea | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves.

Examples

“The Indonesian islands of Taliabu, Peleng and Batudaka are in a region named Wallacea, after Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th-century naturalist who developed a theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin’s.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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