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	Wallacea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The islands of Wallacea lie between Sundaland (the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and Bali) to the west, and Near Oceania including Australia and New Guinea to the south and east.
		The boundary between Sundaland and Wallacea follows the Wallace Line, named after the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace who noted the differences in mammal and bird fauna between the islands either side of the line.
		The Islands of Sundaland to the west of the line, including Java, Bali, Borneo, share a similar mammal fauna with East Asia, including tigers, rhinoceros, and apes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wallacea (740 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - Sundaland Sundaland - Overview
		The spectacular flora and fauna of the Sundaland Hotspot are succumbing to the explosive growth of industrial forestry in these islands and to the international animal trade that claims tigers, monkeys, and turtle species for food and medicine in other countries.
		The Sundaland hotspot covers the western half of the Indo-Malayan archipelago, an arc of some 17,000 equatorial islands, and is dominated by two of the largest islands in the world: Borneo (725,000 km²) and Sumatra (427,300 km²).
		The boundary between the Sundaland Hotspot and the Indo-Burma Hotspot to the northwest is here taken as the Kangar-Pattani Line, which crosses the Thailand-Malaysia border.
	www.biodiversityhotspots.org /xp/Hotspots/sundaland (410 words)

	Malesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The western part of Malesia, which includes the Malay Peninsula and the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo, shares the large mammal fauna of Asia, and is known as Sundaland.
		The eastern edge of Sundaland is the Wallace line, named for Alfred Russel Wallace, the nineteenth-century British naturalist who noted the difference in fauna between islands on either side of the line.
		The islands between Sundaland and New Guinea, called Wallacea, were never linked to the neighboring continents, and have a flora and fauna that includes Indomalayan and Australasian elements.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Malesia (265 words)

	Sundaland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The islands of Sundaland rest on Asia's shallow (The relatively shallow (up to 200 meters) seabed surrounding a continent) continental shelf.
		During the (Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface) ice ages, sea levels were lower and all of Sundaland was an extension of the Asian continent.
		Sundaland heath forests ((A republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions) Indonesia)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/su/sundaland.htm (729 words)

	An Atlantis in the Indian Ocean
		According to Oppenheimer, the Southeast-Asian Atlantis, provisionally called Sundaland because it now is the Sunda shelf, was the world leader in the Neolithic Revolution (start of agriculture), using stones for grinding wild grains as early as 24,000 ago, more than ten thousand years older than in Egypt or Palestine.
		Before and especially during the gradual flooding of their lowland, the Sundalanders spread out to neighbouring lands: the Asian mainland including China, India and Mesopotamia, and the island world from Madagascar to the Philippines and New Guinea, whence they later colonized Polynesia as far as Easter Island, Hawaii and New Zealand.
		Conversely, archaeological and genetic evidence in favour of the spread of the Austronesian-speaking populations from Sundaland seems to be sufficient.
	koenraadelst.bharatvani.org /reviews/atlantis.html (1469 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - Sundaland Sundaland - Unique and Threated Biodiversity
		Sundaland is one of the biologically richest hotspots on Earth, holding about 25,000 species of vascular plants, 15,000 (60 percent) of which are found nowhere else.
		Of all of Sundaland's diverse and threatened species, the best symbols of the vital need for conservation in the hotspot are its large mammals.
		The Sundaland hotspot is home to more than 240 species of amphibians, nearly 200 of which are endemic.
	www.biodiversityscience.org /xp/Hotspots/sundaland/biodiversity.xml (1024 words)

	Executive Summary
		To the north, the relationship of this Sundaland block to the adjacent South China block is still to be established, but in any case, differential motion is small and at the detection limit of current data.
		To the west, motion of India with respect to Sundaland is roughly north at a rate of 45 to 52 mm yr-1.
		The alternative is that Sundaland's eastward directed motion relates to the onset of the eastward motion of India at about 8.5 to 10 Ma, when the Indian equatorial zone of deformation was initiated and the Indian plate was detached from the Australian plate.
	www.gfz-potsdam.de /pb1/pg1/neha/geodyssea/geodyssea.html (2952 words)

	Purpose here to explain planetary population patterns first from Sundaland to Africa, also from common ancestors in ...
		Sundaland (the lowlands of the greater Southeast Asian Peninsula) is the current name applied to the largest single section of Asian real estate submerged by rising sea levels after the last Ice Age.
		Homo sapiens were clearly in the region of Sundaland as far back as 43,000 BC to 28,000 BC; and so almost certainly traveled and lived on the vast dry lands existing there due to the Ice Age Glaciation which resulted in lower sea levels.
		This also fits the Sundaland theory well as the tips of the mountains are all that remains for the most part of the once great continent of Sundaland.
	personalpages.tds.net /~theseeker/Sunda.htm (7745 words)

	unsaved:///newpage2.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This does not mean that Sundaland, as the shelf and its islands are known, was a featureless plain across which mammals could move unhindered; on the contrary, there were broad, ramifying river systems running between the main land-masses (Ollier, 1985), and the forest belts were periodically reduced and reexpanded (Flenley, 1985).
		The expected picture is, therefore, that there will be a certain level of endemism on each of the main islands, but the degree of endemism, and the taxonomic level it reaches, cannot be predicted.
		The only Sundaland primate without a representative on Borneo is the Siamang, Hylobates syndactylus; field studies might reveal whether it is this species whose absence on Borneo vacates a niche for one or more Presbytis, or whether we must look further afield - hornbills, for example.
	home.austarnet.com.au /stear/cg_borneo.htm (2025 words)

	Sundaland
		The terrestrial zoogeographical term Sundaland was defined by Johnson (1964) as a replacement for the previously used term “Malaya” and derivatives, when the modern state of Malaysia was founded, and is today used by most modern authors working on SE Asia (e.g., Barlow [1983], Holloway [see references], Knight and Holloway 1990, Eliot 1992, etc.).
		Another subdivision of Sundaland is Neomalaya; this term was already introduced by Moulton (1915 a, 1915 b) and comprises the northern corelands of Sundaland, which have the closest faunistic relationships: Sumatra, West Malaysia, and Borneo only, excluding Java, Bali and Palawan as well as Paramalaya.
		Today the natural northern borderline of the zoogeographical unit Sundaland on the Asian continent for many species appears to be the climate divide between the perhumid equatorial tropical climate and the monsoonal (seasonal tropical to subtropical) climate in the northern part of West Malaysia and in South Thailand.
	www.saturnia.de /Research/Sundaland.html (1476 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - Sundaland Sundaland - Human Impacts
		One of the most insidious threats to the fauna of Sundaland is the wildlife trade.
		Most turtle populations throughout the Sundaland hotspot are either in decline or have collapsed.
		Forest destruction is the single biggest threat to biodiversity in the Sundaland Hotspot, due to commercial logging and expansion of rubber and oil palm plantations.
	www.biodiversityscience.org /xp/Hotspots/sundaland/impacts.xml (719 words)

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		In a large set of data, Eocene outcrops around the Sundaland craton are characterized by the presence of the related genera Assilina d'Orbigny 1939, Pellatispira Boussac 1906 and Biplanispira Umbgrove 1937 [the "APB fauna"].
		Another large set of data shows that Eocene limestones on the Australian margin, in south and west Papua New Guinea, west Papua and surrounding islands are characterized by the genus Lacazinella Crespin 1962.
		Therefore, the APB fauna has a distinct preference for low latitude (western Tethys, Sundaland, and Pacific island) locations in the Eocene, but occurs rarely on parts of the Australian margin.
	www.ga.gov.au /paleo/2003_2/geo/summary.htm (281 words)

	The legend of Lemuria and sunken Sundaland -- apu32.com
		What makes this pertinent to the Lemuria myths is that the whole region of Sundaland and the neighboring islands were believed to have been populated before the ocean levels began rising.
		If Sundaland and nearby regions were as heavily populated in pre-Holocene times as some specialists believe, the rising sea levels must have cause massive migrations.
		Buckminster Fuller, a noted engineer and futurist, formulated a theory that the great voyages of the Malayo-Polynesian peoples were stimulated by whole populations losing their land to the sea.
	asiapacificuniverse.com /features/lemuria.htm (514 words)

	WWF Global 200 Ecoregions -- Sundaland Rivers and Swamps (174)
		The Sundaland Rivers and Swamps flow in a part of the world where several of these plates meet and constantly jostle each other.
		The different islands in the Sundaland region have high mountains, dense forests, and wide valleys.
		A vast dry area known as Sundaland connected the continents and served as a footpath for humans migrating south.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/g200/g174.html (457 words)

	Wikinfo \| Borneo Elephant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thus, if elephants were introduced to Borneo, the source population could have been India, Sumatra, or peninsular Malaysia, and as a feral population, Borneo's elephants would have low conservation importance.
		Conversely, if elephants occurred naturally on Borneo, they would have colonised the island during Pleistocene glaciations, when much of the Sunda shelf was exposed and the western Indo-Malayan archipelago formed a single landmass designated as Sundaland (MacKinnon et al.
		Thus, the isolation of Borneo's elephants from other conspecific populations would minimally date from the last glacial maximum, 18,000 years ago, when land bridges last linked the Sunda Islands and the mainland (MacKinnon et al.
	www.internet-encyclopedia.org /wiki.php?title=Borneo_Elephant (1069 words)

	Sundaland
		The Sundaland Hotspot in Southeast Asia is home to a number of unique species, including the endangered orangutans of Sumatra and Bornea, the clouded leopard and two species of rhinoceros.
		CEPF is not accepting letters of inquiry for the Sundaland Hotspot at this time.
		Given our extensive investment to date, we are focusing on managing the existing portfolio and finalizing agreements for key proposals already under consideration.
	www.cepf.net /xp/cepf/where_we_work/sundaland/sundaland_info.xml (358 words)

	Sacred Symbols of Mu Index
		Although it was submerged slowly as the result of rising sea levels at the end of the ice age, the region has some of the most violent volcanoes on Earth (such as the famous Krakatoa).
		A documented eruption in that region about 60,000 years ago may have decimated the human race, producing a 'population bottleneck' during which our species was reduced to a few hundred individuals; this has emerged from mitochondrial DNA studies.
		Some have hypothesized that Sundaland may have been home to an early lost civilization, perhaps the home of the mysterious voyagers who charted the anomalous ice-age maps which the early modern map-makers incorporated in their atlases.
	www.sacred-texts.com /atl/ssm (628 words)

	g52a in fm97
		The NW-SE convergence between Sundaland and the Philippine Sea Plate (PSP)is mainly absorbed across the Philippine Mobile Belt (PMB), extending from Luzon to the Molucca Sea and fringed by active subduction zones.
		We discuss the implications of this Sundaland motion for the subduction of Indian and Australian plates beneath Java and Sumatra.
		In an India reference frame, Sundaland is moving due south, so that the motion is pure dextral strike slip north of Sumatra.
	www.agu.org /cgi-bin/SFgate/SFgate?&listenv=table&multiple=1&range=1&directget=1&application=fm97&database=/data/epubs/wais/indexes/fm97/fm97&maxhits=200&="G52A" (2998 words)

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		As for mountains and rivers, yes, Sundaland would have had them in abundance, the mountains of course still with us today due to their loftiness, in Sumatra, Java and Borneo in particular [6].
		Although the latter site is not in Sundaland, it is not terribly far away, and we could speculate that it was descendants of refugees from the flooded Sunda Shelf who could have been responsible for these very early signs of irrigation in the Asia-Pacific region.
		An example is Thalassaemia, an anaemia associated with resistance to Malaria, which is endemic in a vast arc of territory stretching from the Western Mediterranean and Southern Africa right across to northern Australia and farthest Polynesia [44].
	www.grahamhancock.com /underworld/DrSunilAtlantis.php (5480 words)

	t42b in sm01
		Examination of earthquake slip vectors of this region shows that the convergence along the arc is consistent with oblique subduction between Indian plate and Sundaland block in SE Asia.
		To the east, convergence between Sundaland and the Philippine Sea Plate is absorbed within the complex Philippine Mobile Belt.
		Along the western boundary, nearly 50 mm/yr of right-lateral motion between India and Sundaland is accommodated in the Andaman-Burma region.
	www.agu.org /cgi-bin/SFgate/SFgate?&listenv=table&multiple=1&range=1&directget=1&application=sm01&database=/data/epubs/wais/indexes/sm01/sm01&maxhits=200&="T42B" (3598 words)

	Major endangered reef regions - Hotspots (Biodiversity and Endemism)
		Major threats are pollution from land-based sources, intensive destructive fishing (dynamite) and a growing live reef fish trade (for the aquarium trade).
		Wallacea is divided from Sundaland by the Wallace's Line.
		Major threats are pollution from land-based sources, sediment pollution from logging, intensive destructive fishing (dynamite) and live reef fish trade (for the aquarium trade).
	www.starfish.ch /reef/hotspots.html (1217 words)

	Sundaland (GGG) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The lowlands of the Southeast Asian Peninsula (Sundaland) are for the most part some 327 feet below 1999 AD sea level - so they would have been 98 to 65 feet above sea level at the time of the maximum itself.
		Sundaland saw the light of day, prior to being submerged.
		An example is Thalassaemia, an anaemia associated with resistance to Malaria, which is endemic in a vast arc of territory stretching from the Western Mediterranean and Southern Africa right across to northern Australia and farthest Polynesia.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1375179/posts (8335 words)

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		Indochina along with the western and central part of Indonesia, constitutes a stable tectonic block moving approximately east with respect to Eurasia at a velocity of 12±3 mm yr1.
		Recent GPS results indicate that North and South China are decoupled from Eurasia7,8 and move eastward with a velocity of 5 to 11 mm yr—1.
		The central part of the network covering Sundaland shows no deformation and no rotation, and accordingly displays a coherent velocity field.
	www.geologie.ens.fr /~vigny/NATURE-00/nature.doc (592 words)

	Apis cerana from Myanmar (Burma): unusual distribution of mitochondrial lineages
		The Mainland lineage was found in most parts of Burma except the Southeast, where a Sundaland population was found.
		Studies in Thailand suggested that the Sundaland lineage was not found north of 10° 34' N; this study shows there is a Sundaland population in Burma at 19°-20° N latitude.
		We propose three hypotheses to explain the presence of the Sundaland lineage in Burma: (1) Burma Sundaland bees are a relict of a formerly more widespread Sundaland population; (2) Sundaland bees migrated to this part of Burma from the southern Thai-Malay peninsula; or (3) transportation by humans.
	www.edpsciences.org /articles/apido/abs/2004/07/M4041/M4041.html (254 words)

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		Pulau ini merupakan bagian dari pusat keanekaragaman hayati Sundaland âSundaland Hotspotâ di Asia Tenggara, salah satu dari 25 sumber kehidupan flora dan fauna yang paling kaya sekaligus yang paling terancam di Bumi.
		Hotspot Sundaland meliputi setengah bagian barat dari kepulauan Indonesia, yaitu suatu kelompok 17.000 pulau terhampar sepanjang 5.000 kilometer di katulistiwa dan terletak di antara benua Asia dan Australia.
		Sundaland mempunyai enam daerah burung endemis, bersamaan dengan 15.000 spesies tumbuhan endemis, 139 spesies burung endemis, 115 spesies mamalia endemis, 268 spesies reptil endemis, dan 280 spesies ikan air tawar endemis.
	rimbaraya.blogspot.com /2005_05_01_rimbaraya_archive.html (968 words)

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