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Add Another Continent to the Earth: Zealandia
JCW555 Hunter Gems: 8506
#1 Posted: 08:22:28 18/02/2017 | Topic Creator
http://abcnews.go.com/Internat...ory?id=45564920

"We're taught in elementary school that there are seven continents on Earth -- Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America.

But geography textbooks across the world might have to add one more to that list -- Zealandia.

Zealandia is a continent that is 94 percent submerged underwater, which is why it took so long for geologists to identify it. The 6 percent that is above water comprises what many know as New Zealand and New Caledonia, according to a study in GSA Today, the journal of the Geological Society of America.

Zealandia spans almost 2 million square miles, a bit larger than India. And while the idea of a mostly submerged continent in the Pacific has been known in the science community for a while, it was only in the last two decades that researchers accumulated enough data and observations to classify it as the world's eighth continent.

In 1995, Bruce Luyendyk, a geologist teaching at the University of California Santa Barbara, coined the term “Zealandia” to describe New Zealand, New Caledonia and sections underwater that broke off from an ancient supercontinent, Gondwana.

“I wanted to just lump all of these masses together,” Luyendyk told ABC News today. “It was really just a convenient way to refer to this area.”
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You gotta believe! Heh heh.
Bifrost Diamond Sparx Gems: 9943
#2 Posted: 10:41:58 18/02/2017
It's hard enough to make people remember that America isn't just the USA, splitting Oceania further will have quite a few years of mixups.
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SO I'LL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT
(What I need is never what I want)
SuperSpyroFan55 Gold Sparx Gems: 2265
#3 Posted: 12:01:38 18/02/2017
How about we get everyone to stop calling Native Americans Indians before we start making up new continents.
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eggmans gona pop dat cherry
Riolu-Blue-247 Diamond Sparx Gems: 8843
#4 Posted: 21:02:33 18/02/2017
Maybe we wont be forgotten as much now. Or maybe this will be forgotten just as fast as we are.
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I just realised that I might not know what the hell is going on
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#5 Posted: 02:16:00 19/02/2017
Stories surrounding the Zealandian Continent, anyone?
froggyfroggy33 Green Sparx Gems: 122
#6 Posted: 02:54:20 19/02/2017
i know a guy with a dick is so big it could probably be considered a continent
Crash10 Emerald Sparx Gems: 4745
#7 Posted: 02:59:32 19/02/2017
Quote: froggyfroggy33
i know a guy with a dick is so big it could probably be considered a continent


That's why I'm still alive.
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Bruh
thumper Ripto Gems: 3519
#8 Posted: 03:01:21 19/02/2017
Quote: froggyfroggy33
i know a guy with a dick is so big it could probably be considered a continent


uh huh, and the continent would be called Dicktopia, huh?

*runs away giggling*
84skylanderdude Platinum Sparx Gems: 5528
#9 Posted: 03:11:18 19/02/2017
Quote: froggyfroggy33
i know a guy with a dick is so big it could probably be considered a continent


Froggy, why are all of your posts so guestbook-worthy

My guestbook is getting too extensive
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“No one knows what the outcome will be. So, as much as you can, choose whatever you'll regret the least.” - Levi Ackerman
Edited 1 time - Last edited at 03:11:28 19/02/2017 by 84skylanderdude
hardcoreignitor Gold Sparx Gems: 2583
#10 Posted: 03:16:45 19/02/2017
Quote: thumper
Quote: froggyfroggy33
i know a guy with a dick is so big it could probably be considered a continent


uh huh, and the continent would be called Dicktopia, huh?

*runs away giggling*



dude.

connedickut.
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nyeheheheheh

hey lois, i’m dustah from mudda 3
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