The latest maps of the world's eighth continent. zealandia was completely drowned around 25 million years ago (credit: alamy) new research on the geology of zealandia is revealing how it formed. Geologists, who look at the rocks (and tend to ignore the humans), group europe and asia into its own supercontinent eurasia making for a total of six geologic continents. but according to a new study of earth's crust, there's a seventh geologic continent called 'zealandia', and it has been hiding under our figurative noses for millennia.
It turns out they sit on separate continents. new zealand calls a 1.8 million square mile land mass known as zealandia home. this new continent also includes new caledonia, along with several. Until 2017, zealandia was classified as a "microcontinent," like the island of madagascar. but according to mortimer, zealandia ticks all the boxes for continent status: it has clearly defined boundaries, occupies an area greater than 386,000 square miles (1 million square kilometers), is elevated above the surrounding ocean crust, and has a continental crust thicker than that oceanic crust. “if zealandia was physically attached to australia, then the big news story here wouldn’t be that there’s a new continent on planet earth; it’d be that the australian continent is 4.9. An early 20th century proponent of hollow earth, william reed, wrote phantom of the poles in 1906. he supported the idea of a hollow earth, but without interior shells or the inner sun. the spiritualist writer walburga, lady paget in her book colloquies with an unseen friend (1907) was an early writer to mention the hollow earth hypothesis.
“if zealandia was physically attached to australia, then the big news story here wouldn’t be that there’s a new continent on planet earth; it’d be that the australian continent is 4.9. An early 20th century proponent of hollow earth, william reed, wrote phantom of the poles in 1906. he supported the idea of a hollow earth, but without interior shells or the inner sun. the spiritualist writer walburga, lady paget in her book colloquies with an unseen friend (1907) was an early writer to mention the hollow earth hypothesis. The world now has a new continent, according to a study released online thursday by the geological society of america. named zealandia, the continent now joins the other seven continents: africa. It's only land portions are the islands of new zealand and new caledonia. zealandia is not a new discovery – in fact, the idea of an eighth continent was first proposed in 1995 – but.
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