History of Oceania

Who came up with the idea all continents were joined together?

The theory that all continents were joined together was first proposed by a German meteorologist named Alfred Wegener in 1912. He called his theory "continental drift," and he believed that the continents had once been a single landmass that he called "Pangea." Wegener's theory was not accepted by most scientists at the time, but it eventually became the foundation for the modern theory of plate tectonics.