This split the supercontinent of Sahul into New Guinea and Australia, and cut Tasmania off from the mainland. The now-submerged continental shelves of Australia were thought to be environmentally ...

Related: Lost 'Atlantis' continent off Australia may have been ... to develop a landscape evolution model, which simulated ...

Australia’s landscape is the lowest, flattest, and second-driest continent after Antarctica ... were connected as one landmass known as Sahul. Rising sea levels eventually separated them ...

While there are many hypotheses about where, how and when Indigenous Australians first settled in Sahul— the combined mega continent that joined Australia with New Guinea when sea levels were ...