Lemuria

thumb|upright=1.4|An 1876 map illustrating the supposed location of Lemuria and the hypothetical dispersal routes of the "12 Race (human categorization)|varieties of men" from their alleged Lemurian origin across the globeLemuria (), or Limuria, was a continent proposed in 1864 by zoologist Philip Sclater, theorized to have sunk beneath the Indian Ocean, later appropriated by occultists in supposed accounts of human origins. The theory was discredited with the discovery of plate tectonics and continental drift in the 20th century.