The reconstruction of Gondwana deals to a great extent with the geological history of Antarctica’s rifted margins. All continents on the southern hemisphere had common boundaries with what is today Antarctica. Geophysical investigations of the last decades have discovered the first order geophysical and geological features, which are important to reconstruct the pre-breakup Gondwana plate positions back to 160 Ma. Continuous geoscientific research provided solid constraints on the movements of the major plates. In this contribution the current knowledge will be reviewed and the remaining problems will be highlighted. New marine magnetic investigations in the Mozambique Basin and across the Mozambique Ridge shelf allow to better constrain the movements between Africa and Antarctica. Furthermore, the new data allow to interpret the Mozambique Ridge as volcanic construct, which formed during the separation of both plates. Finally, first results from investigation of the Indian-Antarctic sector will be presented and discussed