Wallacea is a
biogeographical designation for a group of mainly
Indonesian islands separated by deep water
straits from the
Asian and
Australian continental shelves. Wallacea includes
Sulawesi, the largest island in the group, as well as
Lombok,
Sumbawa,
Flores,
Sumba,
Timor,
Halmahera,
Buru,
Seram, and many smaller islands. 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 total land area of Wallacea is 347,000 km².