Australasia's Rising and Falling Continental Neighbour - Lemuria

Abstract

The concept of a drowned continent in the ocean depths of the Southern Hemisphere comes from the Indian Ocean and also from the central southern Pacific, both of which regions are held to have had sunken lands which were deemed to be parts of the whole land mass, best known later as Lemuria. The myth is part navigational, part pseudo-religious and nowadays being slowly forgotten, despite occasional reappearances. The more eastern concepts, being those first advanced, may be treated first in a chronological order of publication.