"It's not like a mountain, country, or planet. There is no formal body to approve a continent," Nick Mortimer, a geologist from New Zealand's GNS Science who led 2017 group, told Insider.

Zealandia is a new and mostly submerged continent off the coast of New Zealand. The discovery started with offshore oil drilling in the 1960s. A UN treaty that gave drilling rights to continental ...

The continent of Australia is sometimes mistaken with the region of Oceana, which includes New Zealand, Polynesia and other central and south Pacific islands, but this isn't actually a continent.

But its identity as a full continent remained unproven, and it fell off the radar again. It was only when a group of 11 scientists from New Zealand, Australia and New Caledonia published a study ...

In 2017, scientists were proven correct about their suspicions of an eighth continent, when they found evidence for a big underwater mass of land linked to New Zealand. New maps have taught us ...

The country of New Zealand and some surrounding islands make up the exposed portion of Zealandia. The 1.89 million square mile continent had been "hiding in plain sight" for almost 375 years with ...

For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental ... A team of geologists coming from New Zealand, New Caledonia, Australia, the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new ...

Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced the appointment of Craig Ellison to the Board of Antarctica New Zealand, the ...

The 35-year-old has played 16 Tests so far out. Eleven of them have been in the sub-continent. In the next two months, New ...