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nabla9 on Oct 15, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scientists Are Just Starting to Understand Earth’s...

Zealandia is named after New Zealand, which was named after Zeeland province in Netherlands, which is province with lots of water and islands.

mgiannopoulos on Oct 15, 2017 [–]

This is all kind of poetic and mind blowing. Perhaps the ancient Dutch people who gave the New Zealand name knew something about Zealandia. Perhaps... aliens? Looking forward to the Discovery channel special.

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