Australian Continent

Australia – Like Family, Like a Continent

Australia takes you to the history of the earth itself. At the beginning all of the earth is one lump. You can imagine a lump of ice moving inside the womb of the waters. Or you can see all as a lump with some becoming waters as a result of heat from within the crust. It does not matter. What matters is that in the beginning all of the earth was one which over time became the many, one of which, as a continent, is Australia. But all this is like speeding through a story, which if it is life itself, one sees but little if at all, if one jets through.

So, let us move slowly through history to see how Australia comes to be where it is today. In the beginning all of the parts of this home planet were a floating lump in the midst of the waters of the sea. This floating lump is a supercontinent. It is called Pangaea.

The source of the name, Pangaea does not matter an iota. What matters is that in the beginning there was this parent continent – the supercontinent – called Pangaea. You don’t need any science at all to come to the conclusion that all was one in the beginning. All you need is imagination in the service of intuition. But glory be, there is a scientific road to all this which is written as a footnote on the invitation from Australia.

From the parent supercontinent that reminds us of corals that asexually reproduce themselves – they are waiting for us aplenty in the famous Great Barrier Reef of Australia – the other continents of the world drift apart as does happen in a family when the children are mature enough to leave their parents.

The drift called Continental Drift, finds many continents flowing to some sections of the ocean as floating plates that became home within the home that is our planet. This is also like saying that in the beginning, human beings, the flora and the fauna, yes the land and the ocean, the lake and the pond, the birds and the elephants, the stone and the pebble, ebbs and flows, all these and more were living inside the same house, under the same roof which was called Pangaea.

Now, after Australia was delivered from the womb of the superparent, where does she go? Indeed she leaves with others to form the continent of Gondwana. The members of the Gondwana family from the superparant Pangaea are presented below:

In fact what we got from the parent supercontinent Pangaea was another supercontinent called Gondwana or Gondwanaland which was made up of Antarctica, South America, Africa, India and Australia. At this stage the area which later emerged as New Zealand lay between southeast Australia and west Antarctica, most of it under the sea.(http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/land-and-freshwater/land/geology/gondwana)

And when they go their own way, now mature enough to do so as happens in every family when they grow up, may this be in the human family or in the family of continents, these members of the Gondwana family become countries, one of them becomes a continent, that is Australia even as they continue to flow in one another and the other continents of the world and Nature through the oceans and the seas of waterlife, the forests and shrubs, the home of the kangaroos and the birds, all natural beauties, indeed through the fauna and the flora, inhabiting as it were and sharing as has to be, the natural living space as habitat and so flowing into one another through life in its various manifestations on this green grass, indeed, this beautiful planet of home.  

With the foregoing, it’s welcome to an immersion in the history of our planet, yes it’s welcome again to Australia, a home to, amongst others, the Great Barrier Reef, one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.