{"id":233503,"date":"2023-03-22T19:16:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T13:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=233503"},"modified":"2023-03-22T19:16:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T13:46:42","slug":"lost-continent-found-zealandia-emerges-after-375-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lost-continent-found-zealandia-emerges-after-375-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Continent Found: Zealandia Emerges After 375 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>S<\/strong><strong>ource<\/strong>: The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cLost Continent Found: Zealandia Emerges After 375 Years<\/strong><strong>\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>published in the\u00a0<strong>Times Now <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>20th March 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>What is the News?<\/h2>\n<p>After 375 years of speculation and exploration, scientists have finally confirmed the existence of a &#8220;missing&#8221; continent known as Zealandia.<\/p>\n<h2>About Zealandia<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Discovered by<\/strong>: The existence of Zealandia was first recorded in 1642 by Dutch businessman and sailor Abel Tasman, who was on a mission to find the &#8220;great Southern Continent,&#8221; or Terra Australis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Size<\/strong>: It is a long, narrow microcontinent that is mostly submerged in the South Pacific Ocean. It is 1.89 million square miles land, , about half the size of Australia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Located in<\/strong>: It was once part of an ancient supercontinent called Gondwana. The vast majority of this &#8220;new&#8221; continent is located underwater, lying beneath 6,560 feet (2km) of water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reason for submergence<\/strong>: Zealandia began to &#8220;pull away&#8221; from Gondwana roughly 105 million years ago. As Zealandia started pulling away, it began to sink beneath the waves, with over 94 percent remaining underwater for millennia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Significance of the discovery<\/strong>: <strong>a)<\/strong> Zealandia is now recognized as the world&#8217;s eighth continent, <strong>b)<\/strong> The part of Zealandia which is above water forms the foundation of New Zealand&#8217;s north and south islands as well as the island of New Caledonia, <strong>c)<\/strong> The discovery will shed light on the earth&#8217;s geological history and the forces that shaped the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cLost Continent Found: Zealandia Emerges After 375 Years\u201d\u00a0published in the\u00a0Times Now on\u00a020th March 2023. What is the News? After 375 years of speculation and exploration, scientists have finally confirmed the existence of a &#8220;missing&#8221; continent known as Zealandia. About Zealandia Discovered by: The existence of Zealandia was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lost-continent-found-zealandia-emerges-after-375-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lost Continent Found: Zealandia Emerges After 375 Years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,11209,11211,9],"tags":[11311],"class_list":["post-233503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-places-in-news","category-public","tag-times-now","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}