Wallace Line genus of plants which does not cross the Line is the Australasian genus "Eucalyptus". Antonio Pigafetta had recorded the biological contrasts between the Philippines and the Maluku Islands (Spice Islands) (on opposite sides of the line) in 1521 during the continuation of the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan, after Magellan had been killed on Mactan. Moreover, as noted by Wallace himself, the observations in faunal differences between the two regions had already been made earlier by English navigator George Windsor Earl. In Earl's pamphlet "On the Physical Geography of South-Eastern Asia and Australia", published in 1845, he described how shallow seas
Illinois–Indiana State Line Boundary Marker Illinois–Indiana State Line Boundary Marker The Illinois–Indiana State Line Boundary Marker is a sandstone boundary marker obelisk located near the end of Chicago's Avenue G, just west of the State Line Generating Plant of Hammond, Indiana. Since 1988 it has been north of the Wabash River. The obelisk was constructed by the Office of the United States Surveyor General ca. 1838. In 1988, the marker was relocated north of its original location, but the structure continues to straddle the state line between Illinois and Indiana. As one of the earliest structures still standing in Chicago, the marker earned Chicago Landmark