While the corresponding northern-hemisphere continent Laurasia moved farther north, Gondwana drifted south. It included most of the landmasses in today's southern hemisphere, including Antarctica, South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia-New Guinea, and New Zealand.
The adjective "Gondwanan" is in common use in biogeography when referring to patterns of distribution of living organisms, typically when the organisms are restricted to two or more of the now-discontinuous regions that were once part of Gondwana, including the Antarctic flora. For example, the Proteaceae, a family of plants that is known only from southern South America, South Africa, and Australia are considered to have a "Gondwanan distribution". This pattern is often considered to indicate an archaic, or relict, lineage
Posts will not be all full of words.... Needed to let you know that I live in one of the most amazing places in the Southern Hemisphere... Australia.... Gondwana
Great to see photos - what a wonderful place to live.... might get there one day.
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