Continents Including Asia Australia
North And South America, Africa, Europe
And Antarctica However Wasn't
Always Been The Case For About three hundred Million Years
Ago, Earth Didn't Have Seven Continents
Instead, It Had Pangaea A Sizable
A Supercontinent That Was Encircled By
Pant ha, Lassa Was A Single Ocean Up Until
About 2 hundred Million Years Ago During The
During the Triassic Period, Pangaea Was The Only
Continent On Earth, Then It Started To
Fragment Pangaea Was Divided Into Two
New Continents Laurasia And Gondwanaland
During The Triassic Period, The Smaller
Continent Laurasia Migrated North And
Eventually Broke Off Into What Is Today
Known As Europe, Asia, And North America
The Bigger One, Gondwanaland Divided Into
The Modern Continents Of South America
Africa, Australia, and Antarctica in The Indian
Subcontinent And The Arabian Peninsula
Which Together Make Up Nearly Two-thirds
In The Modern Continent, Many People Are
Unaware That Gondwanaland Also Divided
Into Another Portion, A Portion That Took
Researchers
375 Years To Find Becoming The World's
Eighth Continent, Which Had Been Lying In
Wait For Them Under The Ocean This
Entire-time How Did This Continent Come
To Be What? Formerly Dwelt There
Furthermore, How Long Has It Been
Submerged Join Us As We Explore
Scientists, Insane New Discovery Of A
Hidden Continent Under The Ocean
Abel Tasman Was On A Mission In 1642 The
The Seasoned Dutch Sailor Was Certain That
The Southern Hemisphere Had A Massive
Continent And He Was Determined To Find
It
Europeans Had An Unwavering Belief That
There Must Be A Sizable Lamb Mass There
Which They Preemptively Named Terra
Australia, To Balance Out Their Own
A Continent In The North At The Time This
This Legion Of The World Was Still Largely
Mysterious To Them, The Fixation Had
Existed Since The Time Of The Ancient
Romans, But It Would Only Now Be Put To
The Test Tasman, Therefore, Departed From
The Indonesian Port Of Jakarta On August
14th In Two Tiny Ships Sailed West
South then East Until Arriving At The
The South Island Of New Zealand Was Not A
Good Start For Him When He First Met The
Maori Inhabitants Were Believed To Have
Arrived In The Area Hundreds Of Years
Earlier In The Day, Some Of The Set-out
In A Canoe And Rammed A Small Boat That
Was Carrying Messages Between The Dutch
Ships, of Four Europeans In The Fate
Of The European Targets Is Unknown
After They Fired A Cannon At eleven
Additional Canoes And That Was The End
During His Expedition, Tasman Gave The Tragic
Spot The Ironic Name Murderer's Bay And
I sailed Home A Few Weeks Later Without
Having Even Set Foot On This New
Continent, Although He Thought He'd Found
The Big Southern Continent Was
Not The Commercial Nirvana He
Had Envisioned He Never Came Back
Australia, Had Already Been Discovered By
This Point, But The Europeans Believed It
Was Not The Legendary Continent They
We had been Looking For When They Changed Their
Minds, It Was Later Given The Name Terra
Australia, Tasman Had No Idea That He'd
Been Correct All Along, There Was A
Continent Missing When A-Team Of
Geologists Revealed The Discovery Of
Zealand-made Headlines It Is
Roughly Six Times The Size Of Madagascar
And Spans 1.89 Million Square Miles, 4. 9
A Million, Square Kilometers of The Team
Boldly Declared That There Are More Than
Seven Continents, Even Though
Encyclopedias Maps And Search Engines
Had Long Maintained That There Are Only
Seven But As We Can See Now There Are
Eight Of Them And The Newest
One Is The Smallest, Thinnest And
Youngest In The Entire World-shattering
In All Previous Records, Only A Small Number
Of Islands, Including New Zealand
Protrude From The Ocean's Depths Making
Up ninety-four Of It All Along It Had Been Hiding
In Plain Sight, But That Was Only The
Start The Continent Is Still Mysterious
Five Years Later, His Secrets Zealously
Guarded Beneath Six A Thousand, Five
A Hundred And Sixty Feet, Two Kilometers Of
Water
One Of The Largest Marine Domains In The
The World Was Unleashed When The Continent
It Was Ultimately Revealed To The Globe In
In Addition To New Zealand. In The Continent
Includes Lord Howe Island And Ball
Pyramid Two Minor Australian Territories
As Well As
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