Geological study released Friday reported that New Zealand is located at the top of the continent flooded the South Pacific, and applies all of the available standards in the seven continents on Earth. The scientists released the study on the new continent the name "Zeelandia".
According to geological study published Friday in the "GSM Today" that New Zealand is located at the top of the continent flooded the South Pacific waters, were not known before, which they called "Zeelandia".
The study, to that continent constitute the unity of all available geological separate standards apply in seven continents now known on Earth.
Scientists estimated the lost continent in their study area of ​​five million square kilometers, 94% of which is covered with water.
The researchers said that only three sites of this continent is not covered with water, the North Island and South Island of New Zealand, and New Caledonia to the north.
The scientists added that the continent Zeelandia was in the past part of the continent of Gondwana giant, but they are separated from them by a hundred million years.
The study, that the existence of a continent submerged in water without indivisible it useful for scientific research, particularly in the field of cohesion continental crust and disintegration. "
He said Nick Mortimer supervisor of the study, said researchers are collecting indications of the presence of this continent twenty years ago, but their efforts were hampered by the waves of the sea were obscured by "these data.
"If we stopped the movement of the waves of the afternoon for all of us clearly the presence of mountain ranges and the continent, in every sense of the word."
There is no global body for classifying newly discovered continents, but the researchers hope that this continent appear in Earth maps.
France 24