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Where Australia Collides with Asia – the latest book review

Posted on January 6, 2019 by ianburnet

Ian Burnet, with his thirty years’ personal experience in the culture and history of the area, gives competent, intelligent and entertaining accounts of the voyages of the three main protagonists whose discoveries transformed our understanding of the processes of evolution … Continue reading →

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Where Australia collides with Asia – An animation of the amazing voyage of Continent Australia

Posted on April 10, 2018 by ianburnet

    Continent Australia started to break away from Gondwanaland and Antartica more than 100 million years ago and finally seperated 50 million years ago to make its journey north towards the equator. Continent Australia, which includes Papua-New Guinea slowly … Continue reading →

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Mapping where Australia collides with Asia

Posted on March 27, 2018 by ianburnet

This map from the University of California, San Diego, shows both height above sea level and depth below sea level. The height above sea level is a direct measurement from NASA altimetry data. The water depth below sea level is … Continue reading →

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The Alfred Russel Wallace Website

Posted on December 18, 2017 by ianburnet

Ian Burnet has asked me to post the Prologue of his new book Where Australia Collides with Asia -The Epic Voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and the Origin of On The Origin of Species, so here … Continue reading →

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‘Where Australia Collides with Asia’ – Jakarta Post book review

Posted on November 30, 2017 by ianburnet

Don’t be confused by the title. Ian Burnet’s latest book, Where Australia Collides with Asia is not about the clash of civilizations. It is the story of how continental drift has created the world in which we live, and, in … Continue reading →

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The Wallace Line

Posted on November 13, 2017 by ianburnet

In June 1856 the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace crossed the narrow strait between the islands of Bali and Lombok. During the few days when he stayed on the north coast of Bali he saw birds highly characteristic of Asian … Continue reading →

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‘Where Australia Collides with Asia’ – the first book reviews are in

Posted on September 5, 2017 by ianburnet

Published by Rosenberg Publishing in August 2017 What Burnet achieves in his wonderfully illustrated and narrated book is to relate the important role the Indonesian archipelago has played in the intellectual history of the West. In their separate voyages Banks, … Continue reading →

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Where Australia Collides with Asia

Posted on August 7, 2017 by ianburnet

The printed copies of Where Australia Collides with Asia have finally arrived and there is nothing more exciting than holding the final result of many years of work in your hand. Unfortunately this feeling of euphoria is usually followed by … Continue reading →

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