
Zealandia: The Mostly Submerged Continent Beneath New Zealand
New Zealand is only the exposed edge of a much larger piece of Earth’s crust. Beneath the southwest Pacific lies Zealandia, a broad block of continental crust that is almost…
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New Zealand is only the exposed edge of a much larger piece of Earth’s crust. Beneath the southwest Pacific lies Zealandia, a broad block of continental crust that is almost…

If you were to ask how many continents the Earth has, what would you say, 5 or 6? The correct answer is neither. There are eight continents on Earth, the…