Mortimer told Business Insider that the new maps offer more proof that Zealandia was actually a separate continent – as opposed to a "microcontinent," which was its classification before 2017 ...

Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, most of the remnants of a 2 million square foot lost continent known as Zealandia have fascinated scientists since 2017. Now, researchers from GNS Science in New Zea… ...

But new maps just released by the country’s geological research institute GNS science, along with a new interactive website called E Tūhura – Explore Zealandia, allow us to see in much closer ...

Geologists from New Zealand drew up the tectonic and bathymetric maps of the Earth's eighth continent - which spans some 1,930,511 square miles.

A map of New Zealandia, outlined in gray. World Data Center for Geophysics & Marine Geology / National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA 2021-08-14T11:58:00Z ...

Scientists confirmed the existence of an eighth continent, called Zealandia, under New Zealand and the surrounding ocean in 2017.; Because 94% of Zealandia's 2 million square miles are underwater ...

The first clue that New Zealand could be a tiny portion of the lost continent was in 2002. Experts used bathymetry, a method that studies the depth of water bodies, to analyze the region.

It’s a vast, strange land; its canyons and mountain ranges almost entirely unexplored, its creatures like something out of myth.

Zealandia is a landmass almost completely submerged by the Pacific Ocean, reports The Sun. Its only point above sea level is New Zealand’s two main islands and New Caledonia — the proposed ...