Turns Out Your Geography Teacher Lied To You About The Number Of Continents
Turns Out Your Geography Teacher Lied To You About The Number Of Continents Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. All the continents on earth, right? Wrong. Geologists have confirmed the existence of the submerged land mass in the south-west Pacific Ocean, it is being coined "Zealandia". The team of experts used satellite data and rock samples and reached the conclusion Earth has an eighth continent. "This is not a sudden discovery, but a gradual realization; as recently as 10 years ago we would not have had the accumulated data or confidence in interpretation to write this paper," the researchers wrote in GSA Today, a journal of the Geological Society of America. The researchers investigation isn't the first epic thing to happen in New Zealand. Credit: New Line Cinema The 11 researchers behind the study say that New Zealand and New Caledonia are both part of a single, 4.9 million-square-kilometer (1.89 mil...