What is the name of the large land area in earth before it separated into islands and continents?
With the beginning of the 17th century,outlines of most of the continents had been made. The similarity between the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa attracted the attention of early explorers and scientists. Many people including the English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon,history of the Earth. In 1878, a scientist named Antonio Snider Pelligrini supported this view with substantive evidence. He observed similarities between the fossil plants of the coal deposits that formed during the Carboniferous Period in Europe and North America. However, these suggestions could not gain much recognition in the scientific world. Ever since the beginning of the 20th century, several evidences have been obtained for the existence of a supercontinent in the southern hemisphere. In 1885, the Austrian geologist Edward Suess proposed the name Gondwanaland for that ancient supercontinent. It covered the present Indian Peninsula, the Islands of Sri Lanka and Madagascar, and the conti
