Company Profile
Wallace Line is a niche company providing specialised, one on one cultural
awareness and business negotiation briefings for companies, families and
individuals travelling to or working overseas. We also conduct business
productivity case studies to improve the biotttom line of your overseas’
operations.
Wallace Line’s courses have been endorsed and used by Sydney University
Continuing Education Business.
Wallace’s Line
Alfred Russel Wallace formulated his ideas on evolution by natural selection whilst
observing and collecting wildlife in the islands of Indonesia. He noticed the sudden
difference in bird families he encountered when he sailed some thirty kilometres
east off Bali and landed on Lombok. On Bali the birds were clearly related to those
of the larger islands of Java and Sumatra and mainland Malaysia. On Lombok the
birds were clearly related to those of New Guinea and Australia. He marked the
channel between Bali and Lombok as the divide between two great zoogeographic
regions, the Oriental and Australian. In his honour this dividing line, which extends
northward between Borneo and Sulawesi, is still referred to today as Wallace's Line .