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One species – the Malayan box turtle Cuora amboinensis – occurs in Sulawesi and the Moluccas, putting it on the Australasian side of Wallace’s Line.

In the film, Anderson quotes David Foster Wallace’s line: “Every love story is a ghost story.”

Note that a modern sea crossing from Borneo to Sulawesi – this involves crossing the fabled Wallace’s Line – would mean swimming across the 200 km of the Makassar Strait.

“Wallace’s line” dividing the Indo-Malayan and Austro-Malayan sub-regions is frequently transgressed in the range of Malayan insects.

The channel between Bali and Lombok lies squarely on Wallace's Line, the famous geographic divide named after the nineteenth-century British biologist Alfred Russel Wallace who, along with Charles Darwin, codiscovered natural selection.