What is Australasian realm?
[[Image:Ecozone Australasia.svg|thumb|right|250px|The Australasia Ecozone according to the [[World Wide Fund for Nature|WWF]]]] [[Image:Map of Sunda and Sahul.png|thumb|right|250px|Wallace's line delineates Australian and Southeast Asian fauna. The probable extent of land at the time of the [[last glacial maximum]], when the sea level was more than 110 m lower than today, is shown in grey. Note the deep water of the Lombok Strait between the islands of Bali and Lombok formed a water barrier even when lower sea levels linked the now-separated islands and landmasses on either side.]] The '''Australasian zone''' is an [[ecozone|ecological region]] which fits the [[geography|geographic]] [[region]] of [[Australasia]]. That means [[Australia]], [[New Guinea]] and neighbouring islands. The northern boundary is the [[Wallace Line]]. The ecozone includes [[Australia]], the island of [[New Guinea]] (including [[Papua New Guinea]] and the [[Indonesia]]n province of [[Papua (Indonesia)|Papua]]). The smaller islands include the eastern part of the Indonesian archipelago, including the island of [[Sulawesi]], the Moluccan islands (the Indonesian provinces of [[Maluku]] and [[North Maluku]]) and islands of [[Lombok]], [[Sumbawa]], [[Sumba]], [[Flores]], and [[Timor]], often known as the Lesser Sundas. The Australasian ecozone also includes several Pacific island groups, including the [[Bismarck Archipelago]], [[Vanuatu]], the [[Solomon Islands]], and [[New Caledonia]]. [[New Zealand]] and its surrounding islands are a distinctive sub-region of the Australasian ecozone. The rest of Indonesia is part of the [[Indomalaya]]n ecozone. <ref> http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial_aa.html </ref> The Australasian [[continental plate]] was once attached to [[Antarctica]] as part of the [[Gondwana]] [[supercontinent]]. The peculiarity of its [[flora]] and [[fauna]] is due to its long separation from the rest of the world. Apart from some birds, and until recent introductions by man, the native life had bee