The Indian Ocean and some of its islands may lie on top of the remains of an ancient continent pulled apart by plate tectonics between 50 million and 100 million years ago.
They may be the remnants of a prehistoric land mass named Mauritia.
In fact, the Indian Ocean could be “littered” with such continental fragments, now obscured by lava erupted by underwater volcanoes.
Read more here: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/lost-continent-indian-ocean/
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