Further evidence is contained in the myth of Gi}ugar, a legendary man who came
from the south, visiting each mountain, lake and island and giving it a name. The
storyteller remarked that in Gi}ugar’s day it was possible to WALK across to the
islands (Palm Island, Hinchinbrook Island, and so on). In fact geographers believe
that sea level was sufficiently low for it to have been possible to walk to all islands
in the Coral Sea at the end of the last ice age, eight to ten thousand years ago.