Why is there the eighth continent in the world under the European plate?

February 18 news (Reporter Zhang) According to the Voice of China, "Chaoguang News" reported that sailing for the new continent has long been history in textbooks. Nowadays, in this era when satellites can overlook the whole earth, many researchers have published research reports at the American Geological Society, claiming that they have "discovered" the eighth continent in the world.

The so-called "New World" here lies below the island country of New Zealand. To the naked eye, except for a few scattered islands, most people will only regard it as the sea of Wang Yang. This sea area is currently considered to be part of the Pacific Ocean.

According to the argument put forward by researchers recently, there is a continent of 5 million square kilometers, which is about half the size of China. 1 1 researchers who wrote the report said that 94% of this "continent" in their eyes is hidden under water.

In the researchers' view, the geographical environment here has all the necessary features to define a "continent", including the existence of different types of rocks, higher relative altitude compared with the area of the ocean crust and so on.

The theory that there is a continent under New Zealand has existed for several years. 1995, a geologist named it "Zealandia". However, the evidence that scientists had at that time was incomplete.

Now this statement is put forward again because new evidence has surfaced. Using the satellite overlooking the earth and the technology of "submarine gravity map", the researchers found that this is a unified area. This is considered to be the last necessary condition for becoming an independent continent.

Therefore, they called on the international community to recognize the continent as the eighth largest continent in the world, and to follow the name "Silandia" put forward more than 20 years ago.