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  • After the Savage Land became known to outsiders, Ka-Zar discovered that the Savage Land was a remaining part of the prehistoric super-continent called Pangaea.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Chuck Wells 2009

  • All the great continents of the world, he suggested, had once been joined up in a gigantic super-continent, which he called Pangaea.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • After the Savage Land became known to outsiders, Ka-Zar discovered that the Savage Land was a remaining part of the prehistoric super-continent called Pangaea.

    1970's Flashback: Ka-Zar, Lord of the Savage Land Chuck Wells 2009

  • All the great continents of the world, he suggested, had once been joined up in a gigantic super-continent, which he called Pangaea.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • New Caledonia is one of the world's smallest hotspots, yet it is very diverse and, like the other remnants of the ancient super-continent Gondwanaland (Madagascar, Australia, and New Zealand), supports high levels of endemism.

    Biological diversity in New Caledonia 2008

  • The Antarctic element consists of species descended from the super-continent of Gondwana.

    Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia 2008

  • Pangea is the name of the original super-continent which contained all the world's land mass before the continents started splitting apart 250 million years ago.

    Pangea Day BunnyKissd 2008

  • During that time, these continents were joined together in a single super-continent called “Laurasia”.

    Of dragons and microbes - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • India and South Africa once shared the same continent until the process of continental drifting fragmented the super-continent, Gondwanaland, and the mighty Indian Ocean currents drifted this great land away from Africa to Asia.

    3rd Alfred Nzo Memorial Lecture to the Indian Council of World Affairs 2003

  • India and South Africa once shared the same continent until the process of continental drifting fragmented the super-continent, Gondwanaland, and the mighty Indian Ocean currents drifted this great land away from Africa to Asia.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

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