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Gondwanaland: The search for a land before (human) time
The Gondwana supercontinent broke up millions of years ago. Now, researchers are piecing it back together again.
Around 400 million years ago, before Australia was a continent on its own, we were lying on our side, attached to Antarctica, India, South America, Africa, Madagascar, Arabia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand, in a giant land mass called Gondwanaland (also commonly known as ‘Gondwana’). Dr Jarrod Hore, a UNSW environmental historian on the Gondwana/Land team and co-director of the New Earth Histories research program, says the discovery of the ancient supercontinent started with people in search of coal. Even though Gondwanaland started to break up 200 million years ago, physical remnants of the ancient supercontinent can still be found across the world: from the Red Sea and the Amazon basin to the South Pole.
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