Selandia (benua)

Selandia (pengucapan bahasa Inggris: [ziːˈlæːndiə]), juga diketahui sebagai Tasmantis atau Benua Selandia Baru, adalah benua yang diperkirakan hampir seluruhnya tenggelam setelah terpisah dari Australia 60-85 juta tahun yang lalu^[2] dan dari Antartika antara 130 dan 85 juta tahun yang lalu. Benua ini mungkin sepenuhnya tenggelam 23 juta tahun yang lalu,^[3] dan kebanyakan (93%) tetap tenggelam di bawah permukaan Samudera Pasifik.

Populasi sunting

Total populasi penduduk di Selandia saat ini adalah sekitar 5 juta orang:

Referensi sunting

^ "Figure 8.1: New Zealand in relation to the Indo-Australian and Pacific Plates". The State of New Zealand’s Environment 1997. 1997. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2005-01-18. Diakses tanggal 2007-04-20.
^ Keith Lewis (2007-01-11). "Zealandia: the New Zealand continent". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Diakses tanggal 2007-02-22.
^ "Searching for the lost continent of Zealandia". The Dominion Post. 29 September 2007. Diakses tanggal 2007-10-09. We cannot categorically say that there has always been land here. The geological evidence at present is too weak, so we are logically forced to consider the possibility that the whole of Zealandia may have sunk.

Pranala luar sunting

The coast and beyond Diarsipkan 2010-06-02 di Wayback Machine., including map of the New Zealand continent, from GNS Science

[map-1] "Figure 8.1: New Zealand in relation to the Indo-Australian and Pacific Plates". The State of New Zealand’s Environment 1997. 1997. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2005-01-18. Diakses tanggal 2007-04-20.

[Te_Ara-2] Keith Lewis (2007-01-11). "Zealandia: the New Zealand continent". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Diakses tanggal 2007-02-22.

[3] "Searching for the lost continent of Zealandia". The Dominion Post. 29 September 2007. Diakses tanggal 2007-10-09. We cannot categorically say that there has always been land here. The geological evidence at present is too weak, so we are logically forced to consider the possibility that the whole of Zealandia may have sunk.

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