If it were divided by continental tectonic plates, it would be welcome news for Southern Asia and most of the Middle East, but terrible news for New Zealand, Iceland, and the Caribbean.

[–] GhostPain@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

The real problem is how slowly tectonic news travels.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What do you mean? New Zealand is the big winner in that classification, what with Zealandia being one of the biggest masses of sunken continental crust on Earth.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

In terms of continental plates, as I understand it, Zealandia straddles the Pacific and Indo-Australian plates, so if this map were split by major continental plates, New Zealand's north and south islands would be split.

But I'm not a geologist.