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title: "Zealandia, 8th continent discovered"  
description: "A brief explanation of the discovery of the hidden continent Zealandia"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-10-20  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2950/zealandia-8th-continent-discovered  
category: "geography"  
tags: ["zealandia", "geography", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Zealandia, 8th continent discovered

![Zealandia 8th continent discovered](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eeb4194c-7a88-4e11-93a0-31f23c70f21e/images/600cfbef-879c-428d-bc76-197ca85c6c86.jpeg) ![Zealandia 8th continent discovered](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eeb4194c-7a88-4e11-93a0-31f23c70f21e/images/7cc10052-d68f-4972-862c-fcd742fea688.jpeg) Zealandia, the eighth continent discovered in 2017, is the smallest, thinnest, and youngest, with a majority of its surface under water. ![Zealandia 8th continent discovered](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eeb4194c-7a88-4e11-93a0-31f23c70f21e/images/e3137bb5-2625-4eb5-a021-3119dc335bfc.jpeg) It was previously a part of the supercontinent Gondwana, but split apart around 83 million years ago. ![Zealandia 8th continent discovered](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eeb4194c-7a88-4e11-93a0-31f23c70f21e/images/37fc9c93-9a32-4932-9d37-19efa74b2a46.jpeg) It is home to some of the world's oldest rocks, some of which date back more than a billion years. ![Zealandia 8th continent discovered](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eeb4194c-7a88-4e11-93a0-31f23c70f21e/images/595f2974-15f6-4552-ba24-02855c4c41d6.jpeg) It is half the size of Australia, has only 7% of its area above sea level, with New Zealand and New Caledonia as the principal islands. ![Zealandia 8th continent discovered](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eeb4194c-7a88-4e11-93a0-31f23c70f21e/images/b8361fb8-7067-44d1-96eb-a65f7fb9691a.jpeg) Scientists and general public are becoming more interested in Zealandia, a unique continent, and are working hard to protect & conserve its ecosystems

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