It is part of Zealandia, a submerged continent that sank 60-85 million years ago.
There was also a search in the 1930s for Lemuria, believed to have possibly been a submerged continent between the Indian and African coasts.
The Kerguelen Plateau is a submerged micro continent in the southern Indian Ocean.
"A submerged continent" is what the late Howard Gilman, one of the pre-eminent collectors of 19th-century photography, called this vintage field.
It originated in the Gondwanan breakup and is part of Zealandia, a largely submerged continent.
These islands are the main areas of land that emerged from the largely submerged continent of Zealandia.
Despite the difference in spelling, she likes to think of Mu, a mythical submerged continent.
Some areas of continental crust are largely covered by the sea and may be considered submerged continents.
The Kerguelen Plateau is a small submerged continent, of volcanic origin, in the southern Indian Ocean.
The moment was right for the exploration, before it was too late, of what Mr. Gilman calls the "submerged continent" of mid-19th-century photography.