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