Literally everywhere is part of a bigger sunken landmass. Just depends where you draw the contour lines.
That’s true, but Zealandia would be the world’s largest microcontinent and links Aotearoa with New Caledonia and Rēkohu. Its topography is super cool and makes for a neat range for deep-sea, benthic organisms.
See also: the Tonga–Kermadec Ridge to the northeast, which imo looks sick.
They flooded Old Zealand to seal Sauron away.
Then the Dutch drained it, built the Deltaworks, and now we live in purgatory
Ah, that makes more sense. I did remember it being a Dutch acquisition.
Dutch cartographers subsequently renamed Tasman’s discovery Nova Zeelandia from Latin, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. This name was later anglicised to New Zealand.
Looks like it but reversed
It’s flooded for a reason, all.
That’s where the rescue team comes from in The Chrysalids
Yo momma so old she was born in Zealand.
