The Lost Land of the Bassian Plain

Beneath the waves of Bass Strait lies a lost land once teeming with life — the Bassian Plain. During the last ice age, this vast expanse of grassland, rivers, and forests connected mainland Australia to Tasmania. It was home to megafauna, Aboriginal hunters, and an entire ecosystem now submerged by rising seas. This blog post explores the geology, ecology, and human story of this forgotten world — a true “Atlantis” of the Southern Hemisphere.