Tag: Perth Abyssal Plain

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 02:50 UTC

  Scientists find “sunken islands” part of super-continent Gondwana land link

  

  Australian scientists have discovered two huge sunken islands in the Indian Ocean west of Perth. The islands, about the size of Tasmania, were once part of the super-continent Gondwana and are more than 1.5km underwater.