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Steep undersea gradients separate the Sunda Shelf from the Philippines , Sulawesi and the Lesser Sunda Islands , where the dividing line, passing between Bali and Lombok , is marked by a major discontinuity in Fauna that is known as the Wallace Line from Alfred Russel Wallace , the biologist who first recognized it in the 19th century.