Newzealandia
* 8th continent *??๐ฏ ๐ * Zealandia * — or Te Riu-a-Mฤui, as it’s referred to in the indigenous * Mฤori language * — is a 2 million-square-mile (5 million square kilometres) continent east of * *Australia * , beneath modern-day * New Zealand * ๐ณ๐ฟ ๐Still, the “ * lost continent * ” remains largely unknown and poorly studied due to its * Atlantean geography. * ๐บ️ ๐Zealandia was classified as a “ * microcontinent * ,” as the * island of Madagascar * , until 2017. But according to * Mortimer * , it has all the requirements to be classified as a continent. It has * defined boundaries * ; it occupies an area of over one * million square kilometres * and is elected * above the ocean crust. * ๐Data for the bathymetric map was provided by the * Seabed2030 * project — a global effort to map the entire ocean floor by 2030. The new maps reveal Zealandia’s bathymetry (the shape of the ocean floor) as well as its * tectonic history, * showing how * volcanism * and * tectoni...