To avoid confusion with the namesake of its mainland, Australia is also sometimes referred to as Sahul, Australinea, or Meganesia. The continent with the lowest population is unsurprisingly the ...

The continent is also a country - but there are often misconceptions about the region it's a part of and how it's defined.

A landmass which was once home to up to half a million people has been discovered off the coast of northern Australia. The ...

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 ...