A loss against Australia on Sunday would eclipse the sequence of 10 Welsh defeats in 2002 and 2003 under Gatland's fellow New Zealander Steve Hansen.
Joe Schmidt's Australia, who beat Wales twice on home turf in July, arrive in Cardiff on the back of a spectacular 42-37 success against England.
And after that it does not get any easier, with Wales next hosting world champions South Africa, before kicking off the Six Nations against France in Paris early next year.
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