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Earth’s Hidden Eighth Continent Is No Longer Lost

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Researchers in New Zealand have finished mapping out the northern two-thirds of Zealandia .

The land mass is thought to be the eighth continent on Earth .

Scientists say it may have been formed by the breakaway of the supercontinent of Gondwana , which broke up about 80 million years ago .