the Mesozoic landmass in the Southern Hemisphere that included what are now South America, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica: it and Laurasia were the result of the splitting of Pangea
: often called Gondˈwanaˌland (gɑndˈwɑnəˌlænd)
Word origin
after the Gondwana Series, an extensive tillite deposit in Gondwana, region in central India < Gond