In addition the Lost Continent has been described metaphorical in Bill Bryson's 1990 The Lost Continent, about his rediscovery of and journey through the lesser known parts of his native USA and in two movies of the same name. Today, geologists taking core samples of the ocean floor are finding evidence of both super continents (albeit as existing in physical terms but with no evidence of some higher culture living there): Mauritia, connecting Madagascar to South India and Zealandia, encompassing New Zealand, New Caledonia and the neighbouring Pacific Islands. Another version popularized by Col James Churchward's 1931 book The Lost Continent of Mu claims that the Pacific Islands are all that remain of this super continent which was supposedly the original Garden of Eden. This continent was called Lemuria (after the Madagascar lemurs which the originator of this theory, Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834-1919), believed to be the ancestors of mankind). One popular 19th Century version described it as a land bridge which joined Madagascar, South India and Australia which sank after they became inhabited. James Cook's explorations but it lingered on in legend and myth and became a symbol associated with vanished worlds which were either the cradle of civilization or a high water mark in the development of mankind. The title comes from 'The Lost Continent' which was a term used to describe the existence of a large continent in the South Pacific/Indian Ocean area, was disproved by Capt.

First published in 1998, it parodies Australian people and aspects of Australian culture, such as the Crocodile Dundee and Mad Max movies, Vegemite, Flip-Flops, cork hats, the Peach Nellie, and the popular Australian song ' Waltzing Matilda.' It also mocks the concept of time travel, poking fun at the various paradoxes involved in traveling through time preventing your own birth by killing your grandfather (the grandfather paradox), and the concept of altering time in the present by inadvertently changing the past as portrayed in the Ray Bradbury short story 'A Sound of Thunder'. The Last Continent is the twenty-second Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett.

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