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ROSEMARY WARDLEY, NG STAFF; SOURCES: NICK MORTIMER, GNS SCIENCE
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For centuries, we didn’t know of another continent to join the two Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica.
But now, for the first time, scientists have mapped all 1.9 million square miles of the latecomer—Zealandia (shown above), or as the Indigenous Māori call it, Te Riu-a-Māui. That’s much, much bigger than previously thought. Why didn’t we know sooner?
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