Tag Archives: Where Australia Collides with Asia

The Wallace Line – Nature’s Great Divide – ABC TV November 30 at 9:30pm

Posted on November 29, 2021 by ianburnet

Australia Remastered returns to ABC in a 3 part series billed as Australia Remastered: Nature’s Great Divide. Australia and Asia are divided by a narrow strait that separates the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok. Known as the Wallace line, it’s one of … Continue reading →

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Yes – Miracles can happen!

Posted on November 4, 2020 by ianburnet

Miracles don’t often happen but a miracle happened when I first made contact with David Rosenberg and Rosenberg Publishing, as he shared my vision of publishing my book Spice Islands with the maps and images embedded in the text. So … Continue reading →

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‘Where Australia Collides with Asia’ – The Darwin Earthquake

Posted on July 8, 2019 by ianburnet

On June 24, Darwin was jolted by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake, prompting offices in the CBD to be evacuated. The epicentre was some 700 kilometres away to the north in the Banda Sea of Indonesia. But despite the distance, the … Continue reading →

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In Search of the Wallace hut on the island of Waigio

Posted on May 28, 2019 by ianburnet

In June and July 1860, Alfred Russel Wallace sailed north from the island of Ceram in Maluku to the island of Mysool and then to the south coast of the island of Waigio near Papua in search of Birds of … Continue reading →

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Ian Burnet talking at ‘Better Read than Dead’

Posted on January 21, 2019 by ianburnet

 

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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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Explore the Collision of Continents

Posted on February 12, 2018 by ianburnet

Reposted with permission from an AIYA blog and my thanks to Lachlan Haycock Prolific writer and historian Ian Burnet has authored numerous books about Indonesia, and has travelled expansively across the archipelago. With the recent release of his latest publication, Where … 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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