Because most existing species live in Australia, early researchers concluded that Varanus originated in Australia and subsequently island hopped westward along the Indo-Australian archipelago.

由于现存的大多数物种生活在澳大利亚，早期的研究人员得出结论，巨蜥属起源于澳大利亚，随后沿着印澳群岛向西跳跃。

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India and Bangladesh are of course affected by the pressure on the Indo-Australian Plate, which is being pushed under the high Himalayas.

印度和孟加拉国当然受到印澳板块蓄积的压力的影响并被挤压到高大的喜马拉雅山脉之下。

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But it is the Indo-Australian plate that gives way to incite change in these other plates and this is what is manifesting now to those closely following the changes.

但这是印澳板块造成的其他板块的改变而这正是现在紧随这些变化的展现。

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The earthquake happened along a line where the Earth's Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates grind together, in the waters west of Sumatra.

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Bantul is only 200km (125 miles) north of one of the world's most active fault lines, where the Indo-Australian and the Eurasian plates meet.

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Where the Pacific plate collides with the Indo-Australian plate, it is forced downwards into the trench, a subduction zone, and the volcanoes are carried with it.

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