For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental crust composed ... areas and sediments deposited by erosion on the land surface. Zealandia fits all those points, but being almost ...

Antarctica is a frozen world, with 90% of its landmass covered by thick ice. This icy continent plays a crucial role in ...

"The lost continent", Zealandia, is no longer mysterious. Its area has for the first time been ... but has become the ...

Geologists say they’ve now mapped the entire nearly two million square miles of the underwater land mass ... of the maybe-continent in question. This research, led by Nick Mortimer, dredged the ...

Seven Worlds, One Planet is back, and episode two is about the largest and most populous continent on Earth: Asia. Asia is massive and covers around 30% of the Earth’s land area. No other ...

The north of the continent is within the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer passes through the south of North America. The largest country in North America by land area is Canada, although the ...