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FEW oceanic island groups are of greater interest to the students of the science of “distribution” than the Laccadives, Maldives, Chagos and Seychelles, since they appear to be the last remnants of a land connection between India and Madagascar. For instance, Dr. W. T. Blanford, in his presidential address to the Geological Society for 1890, after mentioning that there appeared to be evidence of deep water between the banks on which the above-mentioned islands are situated, proceeded to say that he believed a fuller knowledge of the contours would reveal the existence of a bank connecting the whole series from India to Madagascar. “Even should this not be case, the evidence of a land-connection appears so strong that it may be a question whether the whole of the ocean-bottom between Africa and India may not have sunk to its present depth since Cretaceous times.”
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L., R. The Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes 1 . Nature 65, 514–515 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065514a0
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