New evidence indicates that humans have lived on the island of Australia for some 70,000 years now. That is a simply mind-boggling amount of time. The Australian aborigines' ancestors were the first humans to get the itch to travel - and they left Africa long before the rest of us did. They had boats, too. Australia was an island already by that time, and was not visible from the rest of Indonesia. Explorers would have to have inferred its presence by the patterns of weather and waves.
Read more here: Aboriginal DNA dates Australian arrival via ABC.net.au
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