The world of Middle-earth that Tolkien created is incredibly expansive, even just within the continent itself. The Lord of the Rings storyline takes place in Middle-earth, but there are references ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ...

It consists of a single continent (including Middle-earth) before it's broken by war and strife — something called "Arda Marred." "Arda Healed" refers to the prophesied healing of the world at ...

It's helping them unlock the secrets of this lost continent's mysterious past. Zealandia is sometimes called Earth's eighth continent. It stretches over 1.9 million square miles — about half the ...

Wegener didn't have an explanation for how continents could move around ... called “plates,” that glide over Earth's mantle, the rocky middle layer above Earth’s core. Earth’s solid ...

Asia is massive and covers around 30% of the Earth’s land area. No other continent has such varied landscapes, wildlife and weather conditions. From the scorching deserts in the Middle East to ...