The continent of Gondwana was named by the Austrian scientist Eduard Suess, after the Gondwana region of central India which is derived from Sanskrit for "forest of the Gonds". The name had been previously used in a geological

Gondwana and Laurasia formed the Pangaea supercontinent during the Carboniferous. Pangaea began to break up in the Mid-Jurassic when the Central Atlantic opened

Mesozoic
Antarctica, the centre of the supercontinent, shared boundaries with all other Gondwana

• Continental drift, the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other
• Australasian realm
• Gondwana Rainforests of Australia

The assembly of Gondwana was a protracted process during the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic, which however remains incompletely understood because of the lack of

A large number of terranes were accreted to Eurasia during Gondwana's existence but the Cambrian or Precambrian origin of many of these terranes remains uncertain. For example, some Palaeozoic terranes and microcontinents that now make up Central Asia, often called

The adjective "Gondwanan" is in common use in biogeography when referring to patterns of distribution of living organisms, typically when