Lost Lands - Submerged Lands

Submerged Lands

Although the existence of lost continents in the above sense is mythical, there are some places on earth that were once dry land but are now submerged under the sea. Approximately listed by size, these are:

• Sundaland, the now submerged Sunda Shelf.
• Zealandia, a continent that is now 93% submerged under the Pacific Ocean.
• Kerguelen Plateau, a submerged micro-continent which is now 1–2 km below sea level.
• Beringia, connecting Asia and North America.
• Doggerland, the bed of the North Sea, inundated by rising sea level during the Holocene.
• The bed of the Persian Gulf.
• Parts of the Mediterrean sea formed part of a larger island of which the Maltese Islands were a part and most of it was submerged.
• Maui Nui, once part of the Hawaii archipelago.
• Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal, most of this region in The Netherlands vanished in a storm in 1532; the town of Reimerswaal survived as an island into the 17th century; the last bits of land vanished in the early 19th century.
• Strand, an island off the German coast with the town Rungholt, eroded away by storm surges before being washed away by a final flood in 1634.
• Jordsand, once an island off the Danish coast, eroded away by storm surges before being washed away by a final flood between 1998 and 1999.
• Ferdinandea, submerged volcanic island which has appeared at least four times in the past.
• Sarah Ann Island, now submerged guano island, located just north of the equator. Vanished between 1917 and 1932.