Description: A map from 1888 showing the location of both submerged and island regions of the plateau between Asia and Australia. On this map the land areas are shown in hatchure, the submerged portion of the continental plateau in white, and the ocean depressions in black. "More than one third (36%) of the [earth's] continental island area occurs in the great bend of the Australian arm of the plateau, where it forms the Malay Archipelago and the continuous chain of islands along the concave margin of the bend, of which Japan, the Philippines, and New Guinea are the principal groups." — Hinman, 1888, pp. 156–7. Place Names: Regional Pacific Ocean, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, ISO Topic Categories: physical, kWorldPacific, kWorldIndian Keywords: Continental Plateau Between Asia and Australia, physical, physical features, physical, kWorldPacific, kWorldIndian, Unknown, 1888 Source: Russell Hinman, Eclectic Physical Geography (Cincinnati, OH: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1888) 159 Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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