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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.
Most of the islands lie near the southeast edge of the largely submerged continent centred on New Zealand called Zealandia, which was riven from Australia 60–85 million years ago, and from Antarctica 85–130 million years ago.
The world was shook earlier this year when researchers revealed Zealandia - a sunken continent long lost beneath the ocean. Scientists reveal secrets from the ‘lost continent’ of Zealandia ...
The remains of Gondwana 83 Ma, with Zealandia lower left Plesiosaur , is 7 metres long and lived around 70–69 million years ago in the seas around Zealandia. The Australia-New Zealand continental part of Gondwana split from Antarctica in the late Cretaceous (95–90 Ma). This was followed by Zealandia separating from Australia (c.85 Ma).
Lake Erie has islands, but there's no clue to how many. Ohio's portion of Lake Erie contains at least 26 islands in the western basin, but the exact number of islands varies, depending on water ...
The East Coast of the South Island is sliding obliquely towards the Alpine Fault, relative to Westland, causing the Southern Alps to rise about 10 mm/yr (although they are also worn down at a similar rate). [26] The Hauraki Plains, Hamilton, Bay of Plenty, Marlborough Sounds, and Christchurch are sinking. The Marlborough Sounds are known for ...
Examination of plate reconstruction maps shows that this Zealandia is actually a narrow ridge-like structure, probably indicating that it is a terrane, not a continent, a former island arc. (By that definition, Baja California and everything granitic west of the San Andreas is a "continent".)