Apparently New Zealand has been giving us just the tip (1 Viewer)

[superchuck500]

. . . of a whole continent.

We thought New Zealand was an island nation. Scientists say it’s the tip of a ‘hidden continent.’

By Avi Selk February 19

It's a vast, strange land; its canyons and mountain ranges almost entirely unexplored, its creatures like something out of myth.

From what we know, it's beautiful — stretching more than a thousand miles from Savage Seamount across Three Kings Ridge, past swamp forests and volcanoes to the southern slopes.

Pigeons feed on cabbage trees in Zealandia, whales have beaks, and peanut worms crawl above light-less abysses.

In the last fraction of its long history, a relatively small band of humans has settled Zealandia's greatest mountain peaks, which they call the islands of New Zealand.

This place exists, though most of the 2 million square miles lie beneath the Pacific Ocean.

That shouldn't prejudice us against its significance, scientists argue in a paper that calls Zealandia “Earth's hidden continent.”

“The large and the obvious in natural science can be overlooked,” the researchers said in a newly published study in the Geological Society of America's journal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-1255pm:homepage/story&utm_term=.37335e4c6b14

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

 

[Deacon Blues]

That's a county in australier, ain't it

 

[Gump]

That's really neat.

 

[soupcan dan]

invade and take their earl i tell ya.