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Between the Malay Peninsula and Darwin in the Northern Territory is a world of islands. Massive, pseudo-continental landmasses sit in a coralline sea, reaching from the Asian mainland eastward and southward to ancient, parched Australia. This makes for an insular world surrounded not by land, like the Mediterranean, but by the oceanic gulfs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. In other senses, though, there are clear structural parallels. Both the Mediterranean and Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) are products of tortuous tectonic histories.
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