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Zealandia had so much promise as the eighth continent on Earth. Well, it did—until about 95 percent of the mass sunk under the ocean. While the majority of Zealandia may never host inhabitants ...
Earth's mysterious eighth continent doesn't appear on most conventional maps. Zealandia — or Te Riu-a-Māui, as it's referred to in the indigenous Māori language — is a 2 million-square-mile ...
Topographic map of Zealandia. The Zealandia continent is largely made up of two nearly parallel ridges, separated by a failed rift, where the rift breakup of the continent stops and becomes a filled graben. The ridges rise above the sea floor to heights of 1,000–1,500 m (3,300–4,900 ft), with a few rocky islands rising above sea level.
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English: Topographic map of Zealandia, based on bathymetry data from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. Boundary is based on information which was given in: Nick Mortimer; Hamish Campbell (2014) Zealandia - Our Continent Revealed, London: Penguin Books, p. 54 ISBN: 978-0-143-57156-8.
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Topographic map of Zealandia. A submerged continent or a sunken continent is a region of continental crust, extensive in size but mainly undersea.The terminology is used by some paleogeologists and geographers in reference to some landmasses (none of which are as large as any of the seven generally-recognized continents).
Topographic map of Zealandia, showing Bollons Seamount in the southeast. Bollons Seamount or Bollons Tablemount is a seamount just east of the International Date Line, a few hundred miles off the coast of New Zealand. [1] It represents a continental fragment that separated from Zealandia as a result of rifting. [2]