Not seven but eight continents on the Earth!

Do you know about the eighth continent Zealandia on the Earth?

JUNE 25 (WTN) - If we ask you how many continents are there on the Earth? So your answer will be seven. And you would say that these seven continents are Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica. But if we tell you that there are not seven but eight continents on the Earth! So it is natural that you must have been shocked after reading this.

Actually, your being shocked is natural. Because you have yet to read that there are only seven continents on the Earth. It is true that there are only seven continents on the surface of the Earth. But millions of years ago, there was one more continent to have merged into the ocean. It means the eighth continent of the Earth does not exist on the surface of the earth and has got sunk in the sea.

This eighth continent of the Earth is sunk southeast from Australia to the sea near New Zealand. Scientists have named this continent  Zealandia. Scientists have also made a map of Zealandia. According to this map, scientists claim that the continent of Zealandia is spread over an area of ​​about 5 million square kilometers.

According to scientists, the continent of Zeelandia was broken up from Gondwanaland, known as the supercontinent, about 79 million years ago. At the same time, the continent of Zealandia sank into the sea about 23 million years ago. Scientists first came to know about this continent that has been in the sea for millions of years, three years ago.

Zeelandia, the eighth continent of the Earth, exists deep inside the Pacific Ocean at 3,800 feet. After continuous research, New Zealand scientists have prepared a tectonic and bathymetric map of the continent of Zealandia. With the help of this map, scientists will be able to find out about seismic activities and marine information related to the continent of Zeelandia. Scientists have shown from this map that there are very high mountains and very deep valleys in Zealandia.

For your information, let's know that the whole of the continent of Zealandia is under the sea. But a rock named Ball's Pyramid is out of the sea near Lord Howe Island. It was from this rock that scientists came up with the idea of ​​another continent under the sea.

According to the famous geologist Nick Mortimer, the eighth continent was first conceived in 1995. But this eighth continent could be detected in the year 2017 after much hard work, and now this continent, which has sunk in the sea, has been recognized as the eighth continent.