Mouse click reveals ancient coastline

The changing shape of Australasia can now be seen in a new interactive digital map that mimics the rise and fall of sea levels over the past 100,000 years.

The map also has pop-up images and text about key archaeological sites and possible routes humans took from Asia to Australia during the last ice age.

View the map here.

"What I've done is take a lot of the paradigms of Google Earth and extend them by the extra dimension of time," says designer, Matthew Coller who presented his map at the recent Australasian Archaeological Conference at the University of Sydney.