The lost continent we sit upon is much older than first thought
16 May, 2021 10:26 PM
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New Zealand's striking landscape has been shaped by volcanic activity dating back over 500 million years. Video / Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum
New Zealand's striking landscape has been shaped by volcanic activity dating back over 500 million years. Video / Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum
The sunken continent that New Zealand sits upon is much older than first thought - and has now been conclusively linked to ancient supercontinents that existed more than a billion years ago.
While scientists have known about it for decades, it's only been in recent years that Te Riu-a-Māui / Zealandia has been publicly recognised as the planet's youngest, smallest, thinnest and most submerged continent.