LOST LANDS NORTH AND SOUTH
Over countless ages, with climate changes, flooding, seismic and volcanic events, and other natural catastrophes, land masses change or disappear, usually by being submerged. Here, we look at research into two current such cases, one in each hemisphere, both with evidence of lost prehistoric populations.
First, the submerged Continental Shelf area off present-day north-west Australia. This has recently been coming under closer multi-disciplinary scrutiny, one of the latest examples being a paper in (2024) by researchers from Griffith, Queensland, Flinders, and
