Map showing most likely ancient migration routes to Australia

Australia looked very different 65,000 years ago. The continent was larger than it is today. Some land that existed in ancient times is now under the sea. Australia was also joined to other land masses that are now separate islands. This map shows how people might have migrated to Australia at this time.

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Adapted from Stuart Hawkins et al., ‘Oldest human occupation of Wallacea at Laili Cave, Timor-Leste, shows broad-spectrum foraging responses to late Pleistocene environments’, Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 171, 2017, p. 59