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Our island continent is gradually drifting northward at a steady pace of around seven centimetres per year, making Australia the fastest-moving continent on Earth.

A crumbling 17th century map of Australia—sketched more than 100 years before James Cook made his famed voyage to the continent—has been restored after a painstaking conservation project. And ...

After hundreds of years of speculation, scientists say they've finally mapped out Earth's "lost" eighth continent, Zealandia. In a new study published in the journal Tectonics, researchers ...

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While Australia is widely considered to be a continent in its own right, the notion that New Zealand is part of its own continent, Zealandia, is a newer argument.

Geologists decided to give it some life by creating a map of this unknown continent. ... 2017 completely overthrew the seven-continent model with the long-lost land to the southeast of Australia.

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SCIENTISTS are mapping the mysterious “lost” continent of Zealandia for the first time. The gigantic landmass in the South Pacific disappeared beneath the waves 23million years ago – an… ...