Re: OT: baloney and cheese

Tim May wrote:
Of course, exactly where you consider SE Asia to end in
> the sea is arguable - maybe you place the islands in "Australasia" or
> "Oceania" or something of the kind.
It is a problem.  One possible solution:  those parts of Indonesia that used
to be connected to the mainland during the last glacial period (Sumatra,
Java, Borneo) might still be considered SE Asia? (Bali and Sulawesi were
always separate-- very deep channels) Or you can get around it by using SE
Asia to refer to the mainland; "island SE Asia" to refer to most of present
day Republic Indonesia-- except the Indonesian part of Papua-NG properly is
part of Australasia.  Ethnically it's less well-defined; there are scattered
peoples, and a few relic languages, of Papuan type from roughly Flores/Timor
on east. (Wooly hair, darker skin, stereotypically "Negroid" features--
though all modified by millennia of intermingling with Malay types).  Then
there's the old Wallace Line, which divides Australian flora and fauna from
mainland; IIRC it ran down the _east_ of Sulawesi, but I'm not sure where it
divides the Lesser Sundas.

Some of the islands close to PNG are considered part of Australisia I think
(New Britain, New Ireland, maybe the Solomons?).  Those further afield are
Oceania

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