Scientists have discovered a lost continent that had been hidden under the sea for 375 years, which had been hiding in plain sight all along.
In 2017, a group of geologists hit the headlines when they reported their discovery of Zealandia –Te Riu-a-Māui in the Māori language.
A vast continent of 1.89 million square miles (4.9 million sq km) it is around six times the size of Madagascar.
The first evidence of its presence was in 1642 when Abel Tasman, a Dutch Sailor, went on a mission to discover a huge continent situated in the Southern Hemisphere.
Then it was first discovered by a group of geologists in 2017 and it formerly belonged to the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, which was formed about 550 million years ago.
The newest continent breaks the record for being the smallest, thinnest and youngest in the world.
As a large part of the continent was submerged beneath the ocean, Zealandia was not nearly as well studied as the conventional continents, resulting in inconsistencies in its form and structure.