Lost lands are islands or continents believed by some to have existed during pre-history, but to have since disappeared as a result of catastrophic geological phenomena. Legends of lost lands often originated as scholarly or scientific theories, only to be picked up by writers and individuals outside the academy. Occult and New Age writers have made use of Lost Lands, as have subaltern peoples such as the Tamils in India. Phantom islands, as opposed to lost lands, are land masses formerly believed by cartographers to exist in the current historical age, but to have been discredited as a result of expanding geographic knowledge. The classification of lost lands as continents, islands, or other regions is in some cases subjective; for example, Atlantis is variously described as either a "lost island" or a "lost continent". Lost land theories may originate in mythology or philosophy, or in scholarly or scientific theories, such as catastrophic theories of geology. With the development of plate tectonic simulation software, new lost land has been discovered and confirmed by the scientific community (like Greater Adria in 2019). Submerged lands Although the existence of lost continents in the above sense is mythical (aside from Zealandia and Greater Adria), there were many places on Earth that were once dry land, but submerged after the ice age around 10,000 BCE due to rising sea levels, and possibly were the basis for Neolithic and Bronze Age flood myths. Some were lost due to coastal erosion or volcanic eruptions. An (incomplete) list follows: Sundaland, the now submerged Sunda Shelf. Kerguelen Plateau, a submerged micro-continent which is now below sea level. Beringia, connecting Asia and North America. Doggerland, the bed of the North Sea, which once connected Great Britain to Continental Europe before being inundated by rising sea levels during the Holocene. A large island in the Mediterranean Sea, of which Malta is the only part not now submerged. Maui Nui, once a large island of the Hawaii archipelago; several major islands represent residual high ground of Maui Nui. New Moore Island, an island in the Bay of Bengal which emerged after a cyclone in 1970 and submerged in 2010. Strand, an island off the German coast with the town Rungholt, eroded away by storm surges before being washed away by a final flood in 1634. Jordsand, once an island off the Danish coast, eroded away by storm surges before being washed away