Amazonic-Bay

  In 2017, a group of geologists announced the discovery of New Zealandia (Te Riua Mui among the Maori), a vast landmass of 4.9 million square kilometers, about six times the size of Madagascar. The catch is that 94% of its miles are underwater, with only a handful of islands, which include New Zealand, thrusting out from its oceanic depths. It has been hiding in undeniable sight all along. Four years on, and the continent is as enigmatic as ever, its secrets and techniques jealously guarded under 6,560 ft (2 km) of water. How did it take shape? What used to stay there? And how lengthy has it been underwater? Studying the geology, it's concluded that New Zealand is "the remnant of a mountain-chain that shaped the crest of an exquisite continental location that stretched a long way to the south and east, and that's now submerged." Till recently, the oldest crust and rock ever sampled from Zealandia used to be simply five hundred million years old, whereas all the di