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Sahul

/səˈhuːl/

Sahul proper noun: 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.

Proper noun

Sahul

  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.
    Synonyms:
    Australia, Australia–New Guinea, Australinea, Meganesia

Synonyms of Sahul

Origin of Sahul

From the name “Sahull” and “Sahoel” of a submerged sandbank between Australia and Timor on Dutch maps of the 17th century. From this the continental shelf was given the name “Sahul Shelf”, and the continent including the dry shelf was called Sahul.

Words formed from Sahul

Phrases with Sahul

Questions about Sahul

What does Sahul mean?
Sahul means 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.
What part of speech is Sahul?
Sahul is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Sahul?
Sahul is pronounced /səˈhuːl/.

Words near Sahul in the dictionary

  1. Sahud Ulan
  2. sahui
  3. sahuis
  4. sahukar
  5. sahukars
  6. Sahul
  7. Sahul brush cuckoo
  8. Sahul brush cuckoos
  9. sahur
  10. Sahus
  11. sahwa

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sahul (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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