The Continents You Won't See on Google Maps

Submerged beneath oceans, buried in the bedrock, or even swallowed by the land under our feet… Earth’s ancient continents have gone missing. For decades, scientists have been on a quest to unearth these lost lands, but how do we go about finding them? What makes a continent “lost” in the first place? And once found, what can lost continents teach us about our planet’s past, present, and future?

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02:20 Hunting Lost Lands
06:34 Continents Adrift
08:31 Rising and Falling
11:58 Greater Adria: The Cannibalised Continent
17:53 The Fiery Birth of Mauritia
20:39 No Man’s Land
25:03 The Land Before Ice
29:06 What Could Have Been

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References:
“Continent”, via nationalgeographic.org bit.ly/continentdefinition
“What are lost continents, and why are we discovering so many?”, via theconversation.com bit.ly/lostcontinents
“The missing continent that took 375 years to find”, via bbc.co.uk astrumspace.info/Zealandia
“Continental Drift”, via nationalgeographic.org bit.ly/movingcontinents
“Pleistocene epoch: The last ice age”, via livescience.com bit.ly/lastIceAge
“Geologists uncover history of lost continent buried beneath Europe”, via science.org bit.ly/GreaterAdria
“What was Pangea?”, via usgs.gov bit.ly/whatwasPangea
“An Entire Lost Continent Was Found Under The Island Of Mauritius”, via forbes.com bit.ly/Mauritiadiscovered
“'Icelandia' – Is Iceland the tip of a vast, sunken continent?”, via durham.ac.uk bit.ly/Icelandia

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Credits
Narrator: James Stewart
Producers: Alex McColgan, James Stewart
Writer: Nigel Code
Video Editor: Edina Nemeth, Celal Kaçar
Researcher: Edie Abrahams
Thumbnail Designer: Peter Sheppard
Senior Production Coordinator: Jana Pšenková
Channel Manager: Georgina Brenner
Creator: Alex McColgan

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