Thomas Blakiston, a nineteenth-century English explorer and naturalist, noticed that animals in Hokkaido were related to northern Asian species, whereas those on Honshu were related to species from southern Asia. The Tsugaru Strait was established as a zoogeographical boundary, which became known as the Blakiston Line.
Wheat, rather than rice, is grown on Hokkaido. The Kurile Islands, running northeast from Hokkaido, are mainly Russian.
December 13 2010 at 11:23 am
Thomas Blakiston, a nineteenth-century English explorer and naturalist, noticed that animals in Hokkaido were related to northern Asian species, whereas those on Honshu were related to species from southern Asia. The Tsugaru Strait was established as a zoogeographical boundary, which became known as the Blakiston Line.
Wheat, rather than rice, is grown on Hokkaido. The Kurile Islands, running northeast from Hokkaido, are mainly Russian.