Omission of Tasmania from maps of Australia Omission of Tasmania from maps of Australia The Australian state of Tasmania is occasionally omitted from maps of Australia. Such omissions often provoke outrage from Tasmanians. During the 1982 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony, performers created a map of Australia that omitted Tasmania. Tasmanian poet Andrew Sant wrote "Off the Map" in response: <poem> Identity deleted, Close to the Continent Who wouldn't make a fuss? There have been wars for less... </poem> The Australian swim team at the 2014 Commonwealth Games were issued training swimsuits with a stylised design featuring maps of Australia, along with kangaroos and emus. The animals obscured
Prehistory of Australia by the first migrants to Australia, widely taken to be ancestors of the modern Aborigines. Migration took place during the closing stages of the Pleistocene, when sea levels were much lower than they are today. Repeated episodes of extended glaciation during the Pleistocene epoch resulted in decreases of sea levels by more than 100 metres in Australasia. People appear to have arrived by sea during a period of glaciation, when New Guinea and Tasmania were joined to the continent of Australia. The continental coastline extended much further out into the Timor Sea, and Australia and New Guinea formed a single