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New Caledonia and the islands surrounding it comprise some 18,576 km 2 (7,172 sq mi or 6.48%) and the remainder is made up of various territories of Australia including the Lord Howe Island Group (New South Wales) at 56 km 2 (22 sq mi or 0.02%), Norfolk Island at 35 km 2 (14 sq mi or 0.01%), as well as the Cato, Elizabeth, and Middleton reefs ...
SS Zealandia, nicknamed "Z" (or "Zed"), was an Australian cargo and passenger steamship. She served as a troopship in both World War I and World War II. Zealandia transported the Australian 8th Division. Her crew were the last Allied personnel to see HMAS Sydney, which was lost with all hands in 1941.
I think that's why Zealandia dosen't have much of a craton because much of its craton forms Australia, which was split apart from the ancient mid-ocean ridge. A similar formation is occuring in Antarctica; one part of the continent is non-cratonic and the other is cratonic with the West Antarctic Rift separating the two of them.
Mu is a lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), who identified the "Land of Mu" with Atlantis.The name was subsequently identified with the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward (1851–1936), who asserted that it was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction. [1]
New Zealand's first non-documentary "talkie". Fragments only remain. First film shot entirely in the South Island. [3] Hei Tiki: Alexander Markey: a.k.a. Primitive Passions, A Saga of the Maoris. [3] New Zealand's Charm: A Romantic Outpost of Empire: Cyril James Morton: Scenic [7] Magic Playgrounds in New Zealand's Geyserland: Scenic [7] 1936 ...
Destination Tokyo is a 1943 black and white American submarine war film. [3] The film was directed by Delmer Daves in his directorial debut, [4] and the screenplay was written by Daves and Albert Maltz, based on an original story by former submariner Steve Fisher. [5]
Lemuria (/ l ɪ ˈ m jʊər i ə /), or Limuria, was a continent proposed in 1864 by zoologist Philip Sclater, theorized to have sunk beneath the Indian Ocean, later appropriated by occultists in supposed accounts of human origins.
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13597-7. Campbell, William (1903). Formosa Under the Dutch: Described from Contemporary Records, with Explanatory Notes and a Bibliography of the Island. London: Kegan Paul. OCLC 644323041. Clodfelter, M. (2017).