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Literally everywhere is part of a bigger sunken landmass. Just depends where you draw the contour lines.
That's true, but Zealandia would be the world's largest microcontinent and links Aotearoa with New Caledonia and Rēkohu. Its topography is super cool and makes for a neat range for deep-sea, benthic organisms.
See also: the Tonga–Kermadec Ridge to the northeast, which imo looks sick.
So still a completely arbitrary distinction based on subjective interest.
All words are made up.
Woo boy .. wait until you hear how we classify things in biology.
Fish / not fish!
I'm helping!!!!
At least it's less politically motivated.
But an amusing one
A large microcontinent the size of a small microcontinent.
There's only one continent if you ignore water.