The Earth Has A Secret Hidden Continent Earth has a hidden 8th continent. news. by tia ghose. published 17 february 2017. earth has eight continents, and world maps should reflect this, geologists say. the eighth,. It took scientists 375 years to discover the eighth continent of the world, which had been hiding in plain sight all along. but mysteries about the land mass still remain. as we head towards the.
Antarctic S Hidden World Revealed Bbc News Enter zealandia, a long lost land to the southeast of australia, otherwise known as the planet's forgotten eighth continent. scientists had long predicted the existence of this bonus southern. Zealandia had so much promise as the eighth continent on earth. well, it did—until about 95 percent of the mass sunk under the ocean. while the majority of zealandia may never host inhabitants. Scientists have fully mapped the lost continent of zealandia in a world first, discovering new details about how it broke away from the supercontinent gondwana through the ignition of a huge. 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.
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