Earth has a new continent: Scientists say 5million square kilometre landmass east of Australia should be formally known as ZEALANDIA
Scientists have identified a new continent that they’re calling ‘Zealandia’
Geologists have proposed that a region east of Australia is a continent
Zealandia includes New Zealand and New Caledonia, and is mostly submerged
It would be the world’s youngest, thinnest, and most submerged continent
By ANTON NILSSON
DailyMail.com
16 February 2017
Scientists say they have identified a new continent to the east of Australia that they have named ‘Zealandia’.
At 4.9 million square kilometres (1.89 million-square-mile), Zealandia would be Earth’s eighth and smallest continent.
It is a region of mostly submerged land in the Pacific Ocean, and the 11 geologists behind its discovery say it should be considered a continent in its own right.
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