Made It, Ma! Top O' The World!

Lonely at the top? Not much longer, if trends continue.

Tracy Withers / Bloomberg:

New Zealand Population Surges Most Since World Turmoil of 1974  —  Record immigration drives 2.1% jump in year through March  —  ‘New Zealand is an island of calm in troubled waters’: Eaqub  —  The last time New Zealand's population grew this much, the world was reeling from an oil crisis …

Discussion:

Ekin Karasin / Daily Mail:   New Zealand's population surges by the highest amount in 43 years as people seek out somewhere …

On the other hand, there may be a whole damn new continent to fill up there.

Geologists spy an eighth continent: Zealandia

This mostly submerged world should be recognized alongside Africa, Australia and others,
argue some researchers.

Mostly submerged? Trivial detail.

I knew they were hiding some of their crust.