The lost continent that sunk 100 million years ago has been discovered underneath New Zealand. The sunken world has been dubbed New Zealand as it is mostly submerged beneath the South Pacific.

According to Geological Society of America's Journal, Zealandia stretched five million square kilometers (1.9 million square miles) and was 94 percent underwater. The GSA report was published on 17th February 2017.

The researchers claimed that it was part of the Gondwana super-continent but broke away about 100 million years ago. However, this makes it the size of greater India.

FOX NEWS has reported, New Zealand has never been regarded as part of the Australian continent. Although the geographic term Australasia often is used for the collective land and islands of the southwest Pacific region.

After 20 years of research, the scientists have believed that the isolated belonged to its own super land mass. The scientist confirms that New Zealand has the same features as the six we are familiar with.

Lead researchers of the discovery Nick Mortimer said for two decades the scientists have been gathering data to make the research for New Zealand. Mortimer said," as well as being the seventh largest geological continent, New Zealand is the youngest and most submerged".

On this journal, the researchers have suggested the identification of Zealandia as a geological continent, fragments, and slice. That correctly represents the geology of this part of the Earth.

The earlier report of the journal Nature said, a long-lost continent once sitting between India and Madagascar now lies at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. The new research will provide future discovery.

However, the new report on the scientific value of classifying Zealandia as a continent is much more important for future research. Discoveries of this kind prove that the large and obvious in natural science can be overlooked.

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