Australia is facing record-breaking temperatures in next week’s forecast – a heat wave so intense that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology has been forced to make new charts. For the first ...

But little is known about the map’s whereabouts prior to that point. In 2010, the item surfaced at an auction, and in 2013 the National Library of Australia purchased it.

Map shows Australia before humans arrived This is what Australia looked like 75,000 years ago when seafarers entered into what’s now Australia through the ancients land of “Sahul”.