Sulawesi Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
one of the four Greater Sunda Islands, governed by Indonesia
About Sulawesi
From the point of view of biodiversity, Sulawesi is part ofWallacea, a transitional ecosystem between the East Asian and Australasian ones, identified by both the WWF and Conservation International as a global conservation priority area. The name commemorates the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who travelled through theMalay Archipelagofrom 1854 to 1862, age 31 to 39, setting up bases on Makassar and Manado, to collect specimens for sale and to study natural history. He noted the differences in mammal and bird fauna between the islands either side of the now-called "Wallace line". West of it, Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo share a mammal fauna similar to that ofEast Asia, including tigers, rhinoceros, and apes, whereas those from Lombok and eastward are mostly populated by marsupials an
Sulawesi Travel Guide Sections
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