Across the planet, water makes up 71% of Earth’s surface. The remaining space is covered by land — continents and islands. Before Earth’s land formed the seven continents in the present day, all the ...

Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly underwater landmass, spanning about 4.9 million square kilometers, challenges ...

In the earliest levels of school, we are taught about Earth's seven continents, but a growing body of evidence has geologists reconsidering this long-held belief. They argue that there are actually ...

An eighth continent, called Zealandia, is hidden under New Zealand and the surrounding Pacific. Since 94% of Zealandia is submerged, discerning the continent's age and mapping it is difficult. New ...

Scientists are making a renewed claim for Zealandia—a land mass that is 94 percent submerged under water and includes New Zealand—to be recognized as a new continent. In a paper published in the ...

A group of geologists is making a new push to add an eighth continent to the accepted list, known as Zealandia. The scientists have been working for two decades gathering data to support their claim ...

The Commonwealth of Australia is comprised of the Mainland, the island of Tasmania and several other small islands, for a total of 2,969,907 square miles surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. Australia is ...