Pioneering Pangaea

It is Alfred Wegener, a German scientist, who first argued that the continents wandered about the globe.

In his 1915 paper The Origin of Continents and Oceans ( Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane ), Wegener published the theory that there had once been a giant continent, he named "Pangaea" meaning "All-Lands" or "All-Earth" drawing together evidence from various fields.

He argued his theory and gathered evidence to support it until his untimely death in 1930 at the age of 50 on one of his many expeditions. Wegener died a hero losing his life in the snows of Greenland while trying to resupply a camp which desperately needed supplies to survive the winter.

Ultimately the New Earth conceived by Wegener was half a century ahead of its time. It wasn’t until the mid-'60s that geologists generally realized that he was, in essence, right.