Wallace Line by the Sahul Shelf to New Guinea. The biogeographic boundary known as Lydekker's Line, which separates the eastern edge of Wallacea from the Australian region, has a similar origin to the Wallace line. During ice age glacial advances, when the , both Asia and Australia were united with what are now islands on their respective continental shelves as continuous land masses, but the deep water between those two large continental shelf areas was, for over 50 million years, a barrier that kept the flora and fauna of Australia separated from those of Asia. Wallacea consists of islands that were not
Wallace Station Wallace Station Wallace Station is a small farming community located in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Wallace Station was established in 1887 after the Oxford & New Glasgow Railway built its line along the north shore of Nova Scotia from the Intercolonial Railway at Oxford Junction to Pictou. In the early 1890s, the ICR took over this line and in later years it was operated as CN Rail's Oxford Subdivision. CN abandoned passenger service through Wallace Station in 1960 and freight service in February 1986. The rails were lifted through the area by 1989. The passenger station at Wallace Station