8th Continent kanipettaru -- Zealandia, Kottesam

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Scientists say they have identified a new continent and called it Zealandia.  

Zealandia is 4.9 million square kilometres big and with this, it would be world's youngest and smallest continent. 

In a paper submitted by a team of 11 geologists, a proposal has been made that a region of the Pacific Ocean located in the east of Australia and somewhat including New Zealand and New Caledonia should be considered a continent in its own right, Scientists reveal there’s a new 8th continent, called Zealandia.

Geographically speaking, there are currently six recognised continents: Africa Antarctica, Australia, Eurasia, North America, and South America. Eurasia is the geographical landmass that includes Europe and Asia.  This will also be the most submerged' of the continents, with 94 percent of the landmass submerged in water, the geologists wrote.

Their argument stood concrete as they believe that Zealandia has all the necessary attributes to be considered as a continent - 'high elevation relative to regions floored by oceanic crust,' as well as the presence of three types of rocks (igneous, or volcanic; metamorphic, or created by heat and pressure; and sedimentary, or created by erosion), thicker, less dense crust than the surrounding ocean floor, and an area large enough to distinguish it from the category of micro continent. 

'The scientific value of classifying Zealandia as a continent is much more than just an extra name on a list,' the scientists wrote. 

[mettastar]

lets go occupy that man.. before Caucasians does