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An imaginary line running down the Lombok
Strait in SE Asia, between the island of Bali
and the islands of Lombok and Sulawesi. It
was identified by the naturalist A R Wallace
as separating the S Asian (Oriental) and
Australian biogeographical regions, each of
which has its own distinctive animals.
Subsequently, others have placed the boundary
between these two regions at different points
in the Malay archipelago, owing to
overlapping migration patterns.