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Sahul continent
May 18 , 2024
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- NEW archaeological records provide evidence of a lost Atlantis-like landscape that early humans travelled on more than 70,000 years ago.
- The supercontinent, once known as Sahul, was a landmass that was exposed thousands of years ago during the Pleistocene epoch.
- During this period, Earth was in the middle of the last ice age.
- Glaciation led to declining sea levels, exposing areas of the continental shelf that had previously been submerged.
- This revealed land connecting what is now mainland Australia to Papua New Guinea in the north and Tasmania in the south.
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