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Title: Island life; or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Subjects: Biogeography Islands Glacial epoch
Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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^ miles wide, encircling the whole island,usually at about thirty miles distance from the coast but in thenorth-east coming down to the sea-shore. The sea around Madagascar, Avhen the shallow bank on which itstands is passed, is generally deep. This 100-fathom bank is onlyfrom one to three miles wide on the east side, but on the west CHAP. XIX,) THE MADAGASCAR GROUP. 385
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^daxjrittjns MADAGASCAR, The Shaded Psirt shews the Elsvaied Gran I--^Cf^^on; the Black dczs.the Vo/canicdistrictswhde Dense forests surround the Island 1 ?:0?0 SECTION ACROSS MADAGASCAR ON igrj. PARALLEL S. LATITt Si3=fe- >S StBWEC.juw.Oek. ■tniH* Cf 386 ISLAND LTFE. (part ir. it is much broader, and stretches out opposite Mozambic(ue to adistance of about eighty miles. The Mozambique Channel variesfrom less than 500 to more than 1,500 fathoms deep, the shal-lowest part being where the Comoro Islands and adjacent shoalsseem to form stepping-stones to the continent of Africa. The500-fathom line includes Aldabra and the small FarquharIslands to the north of Madagascar; while to the east the seadeepens rapidly to the 1,000-fathom line, and then more slowly,a profound channel of 2,400 fathoms separating Madagascar fromBourbon and Mauritius. To the north-east of Mauritius are aseries of extensive shoals, forming four large banks less than 100fathoms below the surface, while the 1,000

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  • bookyear:1880
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Wallace__Alfred_Russel__1823_1913
  • booksubject:Biogeography
  • booksubject:Islands
  • booksubject:Glacial_epoch
  • bookpublisher:London__Macmillan
  • bookcontributor:NCSU_Libraries
  • booksponsor:NCSU_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:416
  • bookcollection:americana
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