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The successive geologic lifting of some islands above sea level has created a variety of “raised” coral formations. The northern half of Guam, for example, is a coralline limestone plateau with a general elevation of about 500 feet (150 metres), while the mountains in the southern half of...
oceans is less distinct, but generally it is considered to lie along the line of islands extending eastward fromSumatra, throughJavatoTimor, thence across theTimor Seato Cape Londonderry in Australia. To the south of Australia the boundary extends across theBass Straitand thence fromTasmaniato 60...
because they entail distances greater than 120 miles (200 km). This is the earliest confirmed seafaring in the world. By about 35,000 years ago all of the continent had been occupied, including the southwest and southeast corners (Tasmaniabecame an island when sea levels rose sometime between...