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spenCer GulF, australia
In the southern hemisphere after the end of the last ice age, sea level actu-
ally rose a meter or two above the present-day position and then gradually
fell to its current position. Spencer Gulf on the Australia shoreline exhibits
as many as six small barrier islands that were successively left behind, each
at a lower elevation, as the sea level dropped over the last few thousand
years.
