Zealandia

Well, it's not new, but they finally it's officially the eighth continent.

And it's called Zealandia, which sounds made up, but it's off the coast of New Zealand, I guess.

And to me, I don't know why it would be like why it's not just another island.

It's just the greater landmass of New Zealand that's underwater.

And a lot of the locals are looking into it.

People that in the area, they've always known that's been there and they've always known it was part of Lemuria.

And they're calling it Zealandia.

So I can only imagine the ancient ruins and potentially artifacts and evidence of these advanced civilizations that are on that continent.

Well, it's not new, but they finally it's officially the eighth continent.

And it's called Zealandia, which sounds made up, but it's off the coast of New Zealand, I guess.

And to me, I don't know why it would be like why it's not just another island.

It's just the greater landmass of New Zealand that's underwater.

And a lot of the locals are looking into it.

People that in the area, they've always known that's been there and they've always known it was part of Lemuria.

And they're calling it Zealandia.

So I can only imagine the ancient ruins and potentially artifacts and evidence of these advanced civilizations that are on that continent.

Every continent you learned about in school, Africa, Asia, North America, they're all sitting mostly above sea level.

That's kind of the whole point of a continent, right? Land you can stand on, but Zealandia breaks that rule completely.

It's a nearly 5 million square kilometre chunk of continental crust, and almost all of it is hiding under thousands of feet of ocean water, invisible to anyone who isn't specifically looking for it with the right tools.

So how does something this massive stay hidden? How do you lose track of an entire continent? And more importantly, how do you find it again after millions of years underwater? These are the questions we're going to dig into today.

What exactly is Zealandia? How do scientists actually know it's there? Why does it matter that we finally figured this out? And what does its existence tell us about the deep, violent history of our planet's crust? Here's a quick preview of where we're headed.

We're going to travel back to a time when Zealandia wasn't hidden at all, when it was locked inside a supercontinent called Gondwana, alongside pieces of what would become Australia, Antarctica and South America.

We'll watch it rip away, drift off on its own, and then slowly, almost inexplicably, sink beneath the waves without ever technically disappearing.

And we'll follow the modern detective story, the satellites, the sonar, the seismic surveys, that finally let scientists draw a map of something no human eye had ever fully seen.

Well, it's not new, but they finally it's officially the eighth continent.

And it's called Zealandia, which sounds made up, but it's off the coast of New Zealand, I guess.

And to me, I don't know why it would be like why it's not just another island.

It's just the

And a lot of the locals are looking into it.

People that in the area, they've always known that's been there and they've always known it was part of Lemuria.

And they're calling it Zealandia.

So I can only imagine the ancient ruins and potentially artifacts and evidence of these advanced civilizations that are on that continent.

Well, it's not new, but they finally it's officially the eighth continent.

And it's called Zealandia, which sounds made up, but it's off the coast of New Zealand, I guess.

And to me, I don't know why it would be like why it's not just another island.

It's just the greater landmass of New Zealand that's underwater.

It's largely underwater, but then it's a whole separate thing out there.

And a lot of the locals, I'm looking into it, people that are in the area, they've always known that's been there, and they've always known it was part of Lemuria.

And they're calling it Zealandia.

So I can only imagine the ancient ruins and potentially artifacts and evidence of these advanced civilizations that are on that continent.