Indian Ocean

Lost Continent Discovered
From the BBC Online Network, May 27, 1999
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_353000/353277.stm

Scientists have discovered the remains of a "lost continent" beneath the waves of the Indian Ocean. Drilling by the Joides Resolution research vessel, which traverses the eas extracting samples from beneath the sea floor, suggests that the continent, about a third the size of present day Australia, sank from sight only 20 million years ago.