Australian Plate south, is now being torn apart along the transform boundary marked by the Alpine Fault. South of New Zealand the boundary becomes a transitional transform-convergent boundary, the Macquarie Fault Zone, where the Australian Plate is beginning to subduct under the Pacific Plate along the Puysegur Trench. Extending southwest of this trench is the Macquarie Ridge. The southerly side is a divergent boundary with the Antarctic Plate called the Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR). The subducting boundary through Indonesia is not parallel to the biogeographical Wallace line that separates the indigenous fauna of Asia from that of Australasia. The eastern islands of
A Ship of the Line A Ship of the Line A Ship of the Line is an historical seafaring novel by C. S. Forester. It follows his fictional hero Horatio Hornblower during his tour as captain of a ship of the line. By internal chronology, "A Ship of the Line", which follows "The Happy Return", is the seventh book in the series (counting the unfinished "Hornblower and the Crisis"). However, the book, published in 1938, was the second Hornblower novel completed by Forester. It is one of three "Hornblower" novels adapted into the 1951 British-American film "Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.". Hornblower has recently returned to