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What does Sahul mean?

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Proper noun
  1. The continent that contains the islands of Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania, especially during the ice ages of the Pleistocene when these were connected by solid land.
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The sea lies over the Arafura Shelf, part of the Sahul Shelf.
Then, at a 1975 conference and consequent publication, they extended the name Sahul from its previous use for just the Sahul Shelf to cover the continent.
The Gulf and adjacent Sahul Shelf were dry land at the peak of the last ice age 18,000 years ago when global sea level was around 120 m below its present position.
New Guinea and its surrounding islands are geologically considered as a part of Australian continent, connected via the Sahul Shelf.
Is Sunda to Sahul a board game that looks like a puzzle or a puzzle with some board game elements?
The water gaps between these islands, Sahul and Sundaland were considerably narrower and fewer in number.

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