Earth's mysterious eighth continent doesn't appear on most conventional maps. That's because almost 95 percent of its land mass is submerged thousands of feet beneath the Pacific Ocean. Zealandia — or ...

Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it now stands beside Africa, Asia and the rest as a full-fledged continent.

A long-lost landmass, mostly hidden beneath the waves of the South Pacific Ocean, has taken a major step toward full recognition. A team of geologists has completed the first comprehensive geological ...

AVALON, New Zealand — Under New Zealand, there lies a vast continent on the sea floor. Once part of the same land mass as Antarctica and Australia, the lost continent of Zealandia broke off 85 million ...

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