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About the seven continents

Ordered from largest in area to smallest,In fact, billions of years ago, the seven continents of the world were joined together as a single massive landmass called Pangaea. German meteorologist Alfred Wegener first presented the concept of Pangea (meaning “all lands”) along with the first comprehensive theory of continental drift, the idea that Earth's continents slowly move relative to one another, at a conference in 1912 and later in his book The Origin of Continents and Oceans (1915).

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