"A new report published by the journal of the Geological Society of America recommends recognising the 4,900,000km2 sunken land mass of Zealandia – of which the islands of New Zealand and New Caledonia are the principle exposed features – as a fully independent continent, separate from Australia, Antarctica or any other neighbours.
Roughly 94 per cent underwater, Zealandia has been found to be a piece of continental crust which once formed as much as five per cent of the super-continent of Gondwana, but has failed to gain widespread recognition alongside the larger, more obvious continents of Africa and the Americas."
Na revista Geographical, um artigo sobre a possibilidade de aceitação de um novo continente - Zelândia, e sobre a forma como isso alterará o nosso entendimento sobre o sistema de continentes no nosso planeta.
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