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Nature 438, 282 (17 November 2005) | doi:10.1038/438282e; Published online 16 November 2005

How Wallace and Dampier faced tsunamis at sea

Jeyaraney Kathirithamby1

  1. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK and St Hugh's College, St Margaret's Road, Oxford OX2 6LE, UK

A favourite bedtime book of mine is Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay Archipelago (Macmillan, London, 1869). During my last read I found the following description of what sounds like a tsunami.

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