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Australia’s claim to continent-hood is a bit shakier. There’s no scientific definition used to categorize these geographical giants. They tend to be large land masses with their own tectonic ...

They then dated the samples, interpreted their magnetic anomalies, and plotted where they were found to map ... to the lost continent, Zealandia is distinct from the continent of Australia ...

The rare 17th-Century wall map was ... landing on Australia's coast in 1770. Captain James Cook is largely credited with discovering Australia, despite the fact most of the continent had already ...

But the continent ... on moving to Australia, Mr. Thomas honed his skills as an illustrator and cartographer, eventually spending five years on a many-layered, full-color map of North America.