FORMER LAND AREAS IN THE PACIFIC
AND INDIAN OCEANS

Former land areas in the present Pacific and Indian Oceans. Only those areas for which substantial evidence already exists are shown. Their exact outlines and full extent are as yet unknown. G1. Seychelles area: G2. Great Oyashio Paoleoland: G3, Obruchev Rise: G4 Lemuria: S1 area of Ontong-Java Plateau. Magellan Sea Mounts, and Mid-Pacific Mountains: S2. Northeast Pacific: S3 Southeast Pacific including Chatham Rise and Campbell Plateau: S4. Southwest Pacific: S5 area including South Tasman Rise: S6. East Tasman Rise and Lord Howe Rise: S7. Northeast Indian Ocean: S8. Northwest Indian Ocean. (Reprinted with permission from Dickins. 1994a, 1994b. Copyright by J.M. Dickins.)

Paper by David Pratt – Journal of Scientific Expoloration Vol.14, No.3, Fall 2000