One city on Madagascar; others on continent.
The continent also encompassed lands in the Indian Ocean and Madagascar.
During this time, Type B mtDNA spread to the Philippines, Borneo, Madagascar, and Polynesia, with movements continuing until about 1,000 years ago.
Lemuria existed around 75,000 years ago, located in areas now known as the Pacific Ocean, Madagascar, New Zealand, India, Southeast Asia, Hawaii, and parts of North America.
According to Steiner, the Lemurians inhabited the continent of Lemuria, which, in Theosophical literature, is said to have been located in the south of Asia, extending from Ceylon to Madagascar, including parts of modern southern Asia and Africa.
The concept of Lemuria began with 19th-century zoologist Philip Sclater, who proposed a lost continent named Lemuria to explain the presence of lemur fossils in India and Madagascar but not in Africa.
The inhabitants of Madagascar have a strange myth touching the origin of woman.
As time went on, Andrianerinerina and Andriambavirano had many children, and their descendants spread across the land, populating Madagascar.
According to one of the origin myths of the Merina people from the central Highlands of Madagascar, Andrianerinerina is believed to be the son of God (Zanahary) and the ancestor of the Merina rulers.
The legend says that Zanahary's son came down to Earth at a place called Anerinerina (north of Angavokely) to play with the Vazimba, the original inhabitants of Madagascar.
According to the legend, Madagascar's central highlands were originally inhabited by the Vazimba people.
The inhabitants of Madagascar have a strange myth touching the origin of woman.
In Secret Doctrine geography the land runs from Himalayan foothills through India, Ceylon, Sumatra, Madagascar, Australia and Tasmania into the Pacific beyond Easter Island.
The continent also encompassed lands in the Indian Ocean and Madagascar.
It underwent disruptions over ages: Norway submerged, volcanic outbursts around 700,000 years before the Eocene destroyed much of it, leaving fragments like Australia, Madagascar, and Easter Island.