Continental drift

As soon as the shoreline of South America had been mapped 350 years before, people noticed that it and Africa could fit neatly if they were moved together. Wegener proposed that the two had once been attached but broke in two due to continental drift, and that all continents were once a single landmass he called Pangaea, surrounded by Panthalassa.
 Alfred Lothar Wegener Germany 1912 Continental drift

As soon as the shoreline of South America had been mapped 350 years before, people noticed that it and Africa could fit neatly if they were moved together. Wegener proposed that the two had once been attached but broke in two due to continental drift, and that all continents were once a single landmass he called Pangaea, surrounded by Panthalassa.