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beneath each Island or Country lands consists of plates called tectonic plates and these plates move very slowly. this theory or law has supported panggea right. If you do not know panggea or the super continent read articles about it.

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For the same reason that no other continent 'floats away'. All are connected to the earth and surrounded by water.

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