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
Henry A. Wallace with theosophist figures undermined his campaign, and were based on the closeness with which he hewed to the Kremlin's Party line and the number of Communist Party members and Party-liners manning the machinery of the campaign. Wallace received 2.4% of the popular vote, and Truman prevailed over Wallace, Republican Thomas E. Dewey, and Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond. After the election, Wallace returned to farming and studied agricultural science. He later published a memoir repudiating his former foreign-policy views and supported the Republican Party nominees in the 1956 and 1960 presidential elections. The Wallace family was of Scots-Irish Presbyterian heritage and had