Scientists find remnants of ‘lost continent’ off the coast of Africa

February 25, 2013 AFRICAScientists believe they’ve discovered the remains of a lost continent on the floor of the Indian Ocean, off Africa. The research team from Norway, South Africa, Germany and the UK identified the ancient “microcontinent” after analysing beach sands from the island of Mauritius. They believe Mauritius was split from the larger island of Madagascar, 900 kilometres to the west, by volcanic eruptions between 61 and 84 million years ago. The beach sands were deposited by subsequent eruptions within the last nine million years. But the analysis found a smattering of zircon grains up to 2 billion years old, suggesting the recent volcanoes had spewed out fragments of an ancient continental crust. They believe the microcontinent, which they have christened “Mauritia”, may also lie beneath Réunion Island and the Seychelles.The discovery helps explain the origin of the Seychelles, which have “long been considered a geological peculiarity”, the team reports in the journal Nature Geoscience. “The Indian Ocean could be littered with continental fragments, but the extent of continental crust remains speculative because these fragments have been obscured by hotspot-related volcanism.” While the study involved modern techniques – including plate tectonic reconstructions and analysis of gravity and marine geophysical data – it reflects an ancient fascination with lost continents. The story of Atlantis, which supposedly lay in the Atlantic Ocean west of Spain and Morocco, has its origins in two dialogues by the philosopher Plato in 355 BC. Rumours of new lands abounded from the 15th century, as Portuguese, Spanish and Italian navigators pushed the boundaries of the known world. “Hi-Brazil,” which reportedly lay west of Ireland and was inhabited by large black rabbits, survived on maps for centuries. The scientists in the latest study promise a more rigorous approach. “Critical to furthering our tale of lost continents are deep drilling, acquisition of high-quality seismic refraction data … coupled with geochemistry, geochronology and plate reconstructions,” they report. –The Australian
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14 Responses to Scientists find remnants of ‘lost continent’ off the coast of Africa

  1. Irene C says:



  2. bobby90247 says:

    I have always believed in Atlantis and that someday the evidence of it’s existence would be found!


  3. That is very interesting to me, Alvin, since “lost” continents and very ancient civilization is one of favorite fields study. I personally believe that the plural form of continent is the correct one since there are numerous “legendary” accounts of such and geological evidence in nearly every ocean. I’ll be watching this one with great interest…thanks for posting this!


  4. mrsotto says:

    I word on the New Jersey earthquake? :)


  5. Sarah Tsakalis says:

    Maybe Atlantis does exist. The world changing before our eyes is as amazing as its scary. I live in a small town by Chicago and people talk anout all the weird weather now and prices and Obama. I never thought they would like they do now. I spread the news I heard on EP. Finally getting some to believe. Thank you for all the info. I follow you daily for years now.

    Reply ↓


  6. Rozee young says:

    Pieces of a continent…everything in this world is temporary. Namaste.


  7. Narayani says:

    Its long been suspected that first pre-WW-2 Germany, and now the US have been working on ancient technology found in the Atlantic Ocean. In 2010, a book was found in a box buried beside a hundred thousand year old cadaver in Jaguariuna in Brazil, which was successfully translated by Pentagon’s computers. A few details did emerge, but all blogs and news items about that story have since been removed. Recently an archaeologist called Ronald Bradshaw wrote a book called ‘The Tale of Atlantis’ that is purportedly fiction, but the chronology of the book is eerily similar to the Jaguariuna book. I hope that book survives the purge.


    • bobby90247 says:

      Heck, whatever happened to the “saucers” the U.S. confiscated from Germany at the end of the war…hmmm? It made front-page news for ONE edition, and then…NOTHING!!! PERIOD!!!

      Not another word about them…ever!

      AND, “Guess what?” No body, but, NO BODY, has ever attempted to find out? Sounds kinda’ “fishy” to me.




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