Gondwanaland is the name for a very large land that existed about 200 million years ago, before it broke apart. Antarctica, Australia, Africa, South America, and India were all joined in it then; they later drifted into the places they occupy now. Scientists named it after Gondwana, a region in India where they found matching old rocks and fossils, and they added -land so you would not mix the ancient supercontinent with that Indian region. Though actually, many geologists today just say Gondwana for the supercontinent, so Gondwanaland can sound a little older or more textbook. It is not the same as Pangaea, which was the even earlier land when almost all the continents were one; after Pangaea split, Gondwanaland was the southern piece and Laurasia the northern one.

岡瓦納大陸（課本也寫岡瓦那大陸；現在地質學家常只說 Gondwana）