Zealandia

  • Recently, a team of geoscientists finished mapping Earth's 8th continent Zealandia.
  • It is a vast continent of 1.89 million sq miles (4.9 million sq km), around six times the size of Madagascar.
  • Zealandia is 94 per cent underwater.
  • The new continent was originally part of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, which broke up around 100 million years ago.
  • Zealandia is a microcontinent, which means that it is smaller and less elevated than other continents.
  • Zealandia is a tectonically active region, with many volcanoes and earthquakes.
  • The mapping of Zealandia could help scientists to better understand the geological history of Earth and ....
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