“I always thought Australia fit where the Indian ocean is and attached to, the sub-continent.”
I’m guessing it did at one time, there’s been two(?) or three(?) times where the earth has just had one large landmass. I recall as a kid hearing about the new theory of plate tectonics and how all the continents were once joined.
As a kid I loved looking at our globe, world book encylpedias, etc. I remember thinking that even an 8-year old kid can tell they all fit together at one point!
thanx
As a child I can remember thinking that Brazil looked like it fit into Africa. Before plate tectonics was mentioned. Evidence was gradually gathered and first widely publicized in a book the year before I was born. However, it wasn’t until the 1960’s that overwhelming additional evidence in a number of fields brought wide discussion and acceptance of the idea. By that time I had studied geology in college. where the evidence made sense to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics