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Sahul (/ s ə ˈ h uː l /), also called Sahul-land, Meganesia, Papualand and Greater Australia, [1] was a paleocontinent that encompassed the modern-day landmasses of mainland Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, and the Aru Islands.

Sahul’s vertebrate fauna was largely characterized by marsupials whose ancestors likely migrated to the Australian portion of Gondwana from South America before South America separated from the ancient supercontinent some 140 million years ago. Australia had broken away from Antarctica by about 30 million years ago, which allowed the continent’s life to evolve on its own afterward.

There are many hypotheses about where the Indigenous ancestors first settled in Australia tens of thousands of years ago, but evidence is scarce. Few archaeological sites date to these early times. Sea levels were much lower and Australia was connected to New Guinea and Tasmania in a land known as Sahul that was 30% bigger than Australia is today.

A new simulation reveals how Australia's first inhabitants migrated across Sahul, before it became modern-day Australia.

Sahul is the name given to the single Pleistocene-era continent which connected Australia with New Guinea and Tasmania. At the time, the sea level was as much as 150 meters (490 feet) lower than it is today; rising sea levels created the separate landmasses we recognize.

The peopling of Sahul (mainland Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea joined at times of lowered sea level) from the islands of Wallacea (Fig. 1) can now be dated to at least 50,000 years ago 10,11 ...

Map of Sahul and Sunda Continental shelves of Western Australia, showing the Sahul Shelf in the northeast.More broadly defined, the Sahul Shelf extends southwest to encompass the Rowley Shelf. Geologically, the Sahul Shelf (/ s ə ˈ h uː l /) is a part of the continental shelf of the Australian continent, lying off the northwest coast of mainland Australia.

The continent of Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts by the names Sahul (/ s ə ˈ h uː l /), Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, or Meganesia to distinguish it from the country of Australia, [1] [2] [3] is located within the Southern and Eastern hemispheres. [4] The continent includes mainland Australia, Tasmania, the island of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea and Western New Guinea ...

Australia, along with New Guinea and Tasmania, formed a connected landmass known as Sahul. Around this time – approximately 65,000 years ago – the first humans arrived in Sahul, a place ...

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Yet there were deep water trenches that always separated what are referred to by biogeographers as Sunda (old continental Southeast Asia) and Sahul (greater Australia).Just east of Bali, which formed the far southeastern tip of Asia at its greatest extent, and west of Lombok in the archipelago of the Lesser Sunda Islands, running north to south between Borneo and the Philippines, is Wallace ...

Between 75,000 and 50,000 years ago, humans began to make their way across the megacontinent of Sahul, a landmass that connected what is now Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, and the Aru Islands. New research reveals more about the routes used by these early humans and the length of time it took for them to fully explore the extremities of Sahul.

A map showing the migration routes in the ancient mega-continent of Sahul. (Supplied)Flinders University's Professor Corey Bradshaw is one researcher who mapped the routes.

Near the beginning of this wave lies Sahul, the continent comprising Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania, the first continent to experience a major collapse. Despite also being ravaged by extinctions, the other continents — save perhaps for South America — maintained a handful of large species (44). Sahul was not so fortunate, its largest ...

Top image: Globe map image of the region of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea and now submerged land which once made up the Sahul landmass. Source: ink drop/Adobe Stock. The article, ‘How Evolving Landscapes Impacted First Peoples' Migration to Australia’ was first published by University of Sydney, and provided by Science Daily.

Sahul Shelf, stable structural shelf or platform of the ocean floor, extending from the northern coast of Australia to the island of New Guinea.A continental shelf, it was once above sea level, and its surface still bears erosional features formed when streams crossed it to the oceans.The shelf was slowly warped downward by crustal forces; overall it has subsided, as indicated by drowned ...

Sahul being a technical name for the continent comprising mainland Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, Seram, and neighbouring islands At the time, the sea level was as much as 150 meters (490 feet) lower than it is today; rising sea levels created the separate landmasses we recognize. When Sahul was a single continent, many of the … Continue reading Sahul Dreamer Migration

Sahul is the continent formed when glacio-eustatically lowered sea levels exposed dry land connections between Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania [7].Despite decades of inquiry, the date for its initial human colonization remains a contentious issue.

Sea levels were much lower and Australia was connected to New Guinea and Tasmania in a land known as Sahul that was 30% bigger than Australia is today. ... How the Sahul landmass would have looked ...

Sahul was home to a diverse range of megafauna. The first human inhabitants are believed to have arrived over 50,000 years ago. Sahul is named after the Sahul Shelf, the submerged landmass. Indigenous Australian myths reference the ancient land connections. Sahul’s separation played a crucial role in species evolution and distribution.