I made a big dumb when I mentioned Landscape Arch at the end. I stated 88 ft and showed 88 ft/ 290 m, but meant 290 ft and 88 m. But don't blame me- I was force-fed Imperial units as a kid.
I've heard people refer to Imperial Units as "Freedom" Units in the last few years. I doubt that we will become civilized and change over to metric in my lifetime (born 1955).
Been there many times. Two pieces have fallen from Landscape Arch in my lifetime. In fact in the 80's and 90's there was an official trail that went right to the arch, now it's fenced off and you are only allowed to see from a distance. If this is on your bucket list you might want to hurry. I suspect the next chunk to fall may be the last.
Great stuff as usual. Might I suggest a similar recipe with the best natural element of each of the 50 States. Every state has got to have some natural resources worth visiting.
Great video as always Kyle! My favourite fact in this area is that Canada has the world’s only known instance of a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake. It’s in Lake Yathkyed, Nunavut. There’s also a tiny island in that smallest lake, which is therefore the world’s only island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake!
Mount Thor on Baffin Island is said to have the greatest pure vertical drop of any mountain on earth; sheer cliff face with a drop of over 4,000 feet. A tidbit I thought was worth sharing.
Manitoulin Island is an amazing and quiet place. And it has many lakes with islands on them. Also take note, Manitoulin has part of the Niagara Escarpment on it with some great look outs and views plus some beautiful little waterfalls. It is a remote place and quiet
Kyle, thanks for all of your excellent videos (subscriber here). Yesterday I re-watched a few from your "interesting maps" series. Those are fascinating. At 2.53 in this video, I caught a naming error in your narration. Ribbon Falls is a totally separate waterfall, not part of Yosemite Falls as you stated. It's located west of Yosemite Falls and just west of El Capitan, between El Cap and "The Rockslides" which is shown on the map of Yosemite Valley if you have that. The map actually marks the falls, or at least the old map I have does. Insider tip: getting to the top of Ribbon Falls is a tough hike (lots of elevation gain), but there are several delicious pools on Ribbon Creek well back from the brink. I've camped near there twice...great spot.
First time commenter. Adore your videos, and love this one. Wanted to provide a minor correction - Ribbon Fall in Yosemite Valley, indeed the tallest single drop on the continent, is a stand-alone waterfall, and not part of the Yosemite Falls series, which lies about 3.5 miles east of Ribbon Fall and upgradient along the north side of the Valley. Ribbon Fall plummets from the precipice of the Valley, approximately 1,610 feet, as you noted. Upper Yosemite Fall, which comprises just over half of the total drop of Yosemite Falls, is 1,430 feet high. There is an excellent trail up the side of Yosemite Falls, but Ribbon Fall can only be viewed from the Valley floor (about 1,300 feet below the base of the fall), unless one wants to scramble up the huge talus pile below the fall. I have done this twice, and standing on the huge boulders at the base of Ribbon Fall with the fall surging in spring snowmelt is humbling, overwhelming and frankly frightening - standing below the greater than 90 degree cliff from which Ribbon Falls descends, and knowing that the huge talus pile is comprised of 50 - 500 ton boulders that fell from that cliff, makes one not wish to spend much time in that watery maelstrom. Ribbon Fall has a much smaller watershed than Yosemite Falls, and unlike its more famous sister farther up the Valley, becomes a trickle by late June in most years. I urge everyone to visit Yosemite Valley between March and July to see greatest hydrologic show in America, and also the rest of the glorious places Kyle mentions in this terrific video.
Hawaii got into half of the categories listed in your video. Weehah!! I feel we should've been in the caves section also, due to Kazumura Cave being considered one of the longest *lava tube* caves in the world. Great video. Mahalo!
Great video, Kyle! Just an FYI, East Port is technically not the most eastern point in the United States. That goes to Quoddys Head State Park just south of there. Keep up the great work!
Manitoulin Island is the largest freshwater lake in the world. Manitoulin Island itself has 108 freshwater lakes, some of which have their own islands. Lake Manitou, at 104 km2 (40 sq mi), is the largest lake in a freshwater island in the world, and Treasure Island in Lake Mindemoya is the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake in the world.
Regarding the depth to area ratio, there's actually a little known lake in Hawaii that has a higher depth to area ratio than Crater Lake. Lake Kauhako is a crater lake in the Kauhako crater on the Island of Moloka'i. It has a depth of about 814 feet (about 248 meters), but has a width of only about 160 feet (about 50 meters). Crater lake on the other hand is 1949 feet deep, but about 5 to 6 miles in diameter.
I had to look that up, thinking you were describing an incredibly deep pond. It's actually 1,600 feet in diameter, not 160. But you are correct that it's has a diameter-to-depth ratio greater than Crater Lake. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for that info. I had never even heard of Kauhako. Further proof that those little islands in the middle of the Pacific pack a lot of physical geography punch.
Fascinating video! I wonder if you could do a video about the oldest exposed rock formations in North America. Incidentally, I used to live in northeast Tennessee, where there is a very high incidence of kidney stones. Apparently this results from the combination of karst geology (lots of limestone in that whole area, with cave systems like Mammoth) and the local predilection for drinking iced tea. Something in the tea combines with the calcium in the water to create calcium oxalate, which composes most or all kidney stones.
Great vid as always, man. There's so much cool stuff out there to see, it's bs I only get about 80 years on the planet to explore everything. Good luck paddling through the whirlpool, I'm sure it will work out great! lol
Nice video. When I visited Jewel cave in the black hills the guide was saying they find new areas of the cave every year. The guide said that Jewel cave could one day surpass Mammoth.
Always great stuff! (I was holding my breath for Nahani Falls in the Northwest Territory-good thing that portion wasn’t too long! Always loved the legend of the Dead Man’s Valley.
A fun topic for a video might be examining the different "Grand Canyons" in various states. Besides the most famous one, there's Letchworth State Park in upstate New York (sometimes referred to as the "Grand Canyon of the East"), the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, which is in your state park video, and Providence Canyon of Georgia, which is sometimes referred to as "Georgia's Little Grand Canyon." Come to think of it, Breaks Interstate Park, in far southwestern Virginia along the border with Kentucky, is also referred to as a "Grand Canyon."
Excellent video format. If and when it gets stale, you can do in depth looks into each topic, such as Crater lake or Copper Canyon. Thanks for the content!
Always appreciate your videos. I have an idea for a video. How about comparing the 50 state's state highway signs? Similar to the state welcome signs video. thanks!
On Manitoulin Island, Canada, you could take your canoe to an island in Mindemoya Lake or Lake Kagawong. If so, you would be on an island in a lake in an island in a lake.
Hello! This is the first video from your channel that I have watched. I really enjoyed it, as I enjoy studying geography. You described many places I would like to visit in America. I live in Nebraska, and would love to visit the falls in Souix Falls, S.D. I know they are not very big, but the fact that they built the city around them, and they are the spotlight of the community sounds very interesting. A book that brings the rock formations of Utah to life is "Riders of the Purple Sage," By Zane Grey. I felt I was there, walking over the Rainbow Bridge.
Seeing Hell's Canyon felt otherworldly to me, like I stepped off earth and onto an entirely different planet. 30+ years of learning the world's other various large geographical anomalies didn't prepare me for the absolutely massive scale of Hell's Canyon's drop off. A must see in person
NC hasn't got much in the way of truly huge landscape features, but we do have the highest mountain ( Mt Mitchell ) east of the Mississippi (I still believe east of the Rockies, not counting the one in SD ) and the tallest tree east of the Mississippi. It's a pine tree that's 185 ft 6" ( if it's still standing ). More people visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in a typical year than all of the other parks combined. So the old North State has some pretty cool places ( in the mountains of course) . It makes me proud to be an old NC hillbilly. 😌
Mammoth Cave is the longest in terms of mapped passages, but it's believed that the 215 mapped miles of Jewel Cave in SD is only 3% to 5% of its total volume. This is based on the amount of air that "breathes" in and out when the air pressure changes. It's almost certainly the longest cave system, but the passages can be extraordinarily tight in a lot of places so the vast majority has never been explored.
Moab, Utah......Landscape Arch has a span of 309 ft...or one football field in length. It is located in The Devil's Garden section of Arches National Park. A one mile hike from the parking lot.
Is it a coincidence that in a video about the biggest, tallest, longest, etc., you have a copy of what might just be the longest album in rock history in the background?
Nice video, but I was hoping to see you mention other common natural formations like deserts, glaciers, forests, etc… or certain features of natural formations like the prominence of a mountain, volcanic calderas, etc…
The MacKenzie has its origins in Alberta (and a bit in Saskatchewan) but it mainly flows through the Northwest Territories. In fact, the MacKenzie proper begins in Great Slave Lake, NWT.
I made a big dumb when I mentioned Landscape Arch at the end. I stated 88 ft and showed 88 ft/ 290 m, but meant 290 ft and 88 m. But don't blame me- I was force-fed Imperial units as a kid.
I've heard people refer to Imperial Units as "Freedom" Units in the last few years. I doubt that we will become civilized and change over to metric in my lifetime (born 1955).
Freedom units 😂
Been there many times. Two pieces have fallen from Landscape Arch in my lifetime. In fact in the 80's and 90's there was an official trail that went right to the arch, now it's fenced off and you are only allowed to see from a distance. If this is on your bucket list you might want to hurry. I suspect the next chunk to fall may be the last.
👍🇺🇸keep inching along We use meters to test voltage 👀👍
Too late I'm blaming you lol jk
Yay!! Geo king vid
I know right! I’m so hyped to have spotted it this early lol
Always makes my hole weak when he posts a video
Woohoo!
Great stuff as usual. Might I suggest a similar recipe with the best natural element of each of the 50 States. Every state has got to have some natural resources worth visiting.
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Delaware is famous for river mud.
Great video as always Kyle! My favourite fact in this area is that Canada has the world’s only known instance of a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake. It’s in Lake Yathkyed, Nunavut. There’s also a tiny island in that smallest lake, which is therefore the world’s only island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake!
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Makes sad Indonesia noise.
i still prefer treasure island, one less order, but i just like it
another banger of a video like always Kyle
You got the first comment, congrats!!
Thank you!
Mount Thor on Baffin Island is said to have the greatest pure vertical drop of any mountain on earth; sheer cliff face with a drop of over 4,000 feet.
A tidbit I thought was worth sharing.
That is a very interesting fact. Thank yoy.
Epic hang gliding video I would think Daniel Koon .
200k subscribers. Congratulations, Kyle. Well deserved.
Thank you!
I love the albums you keep in the background. Tales from Topographic Oceans is a great album!
"But either way the Great Lakes are all pretty big"
Your delivery had my dying, love it.
Kyle, I appreciate you and I like your videos a lot. Greetings from Mexico!!
That’s really cool that the three tallest mountains in North America are in three different countries
Your channel is so interesting. I love the way you explain things in details too. A new subscriber here from Indonesia!
Thank you! Welcome to the channel
Great job. One that I find fascinating is the highest point and lowest point in lower 48 Mt whitney to Death Valley via driving is 100 miles apart
Good Job, Kyle. Like the information, I have been to several of the places you highlighted.
Good to know some new details too. Thank you.
Amazing content as always, and we all know you especially loved talking about the caves there
Interesting one, My Man!
Great stuff Kyle. As a kid growing up in CA., King's canyon was my favorite campground.
Congrats on 200k!! Well earned
I’m from the Pacific Northwest and it’s cool to learn about geographic features I have never heard of like Fantastic Pit! Cool video! Thank you!
Hey, CONGRATULATIONS on 200k subscribers!!!!
Manitoulin Island is an amazing and quiet place. And it has many lakes with islands on them. Also take note, Manitoulin has part of the Niagara Escarpment on it with some great look outs and views plus some beautiful little waterfalls. It is a remote place and quiet
Kyle, thanks for all of your excellent videos (subscriber here). Yesterday I re-watched a few from your "interesting maps" series. Those are fascinating.
At 2.53 in this video, I caught a naming error in your narration. Ribbon Falls is a totally separate waterfall, not part of Yosemite Falls as you stated. It's located west of Yosemite Falls and just west of El Capitan, between El Cap and "The Rockslides" which is shown on the map of Yosemite Valley if you have that. The map actually marks the falls, or at least the old map I have does.
Insider tip: getting to the top of Ribbon Falls is a tough hike (lots of elevation gain), but there are several delicious pools on Ribbon Creek well back from the brink. I've camped near there twice...great spot.
Thank you and thanks for the correction!
Thank you for including meters in your measurements!
Some of us really appreciate it
First time commenter. Adore your videos, and love this one.
Wanted to provide a minor correction - Ribbon Fall in Yosemite Valley, indeed the tallest single drop on the continent, is a stand-alone waterfall, and not part of the Yosemite Falls series, which lies about 3.5 miles east of Ribbon Fall and upgradient along the north side of the Valley. Ribbon Fall plummets from the precipice of the Valley, approximately 1,610 feet, as you noted. Upper Yosemite Fall, which comprises just over half of the total drop of Yosemite Falls, is 1,430 feet high. There is an excellent trail up the side of Yosemite Falls, but Ribbon Fall can only be viewed from the Valley floor (about 1,300 feet below the base of the fall), unless one wants to scramble up the huge talus pile below the fall. I have done this twice, and standing on the huge boulders at the base of Ribbon Fall with the fall surging in spring snowmelt is humbling, overwhelming and frankly frightening - standing below the greater than 90 degree cliff from which Ribbon Falls descends, and knowing that the huge talus pile is comprised of 50 - 500 ton boulders that fell from that cliff, makes one not wish to spend much time in that watery maelstrom.
Ribbon Fall has a much smaller watershed than Yosemite Falls, and unlike its more famous sister farther up the Valley, becomes a trickle by late June in most years.
I urge everyone to visit Yosemite Valley between March and July to see greatest hydrologic show in America, and also the rest of the glorious places Kyle mentions in this terrific video.
and the picture shown during the discussion of Ribbon Fall is in fact Yosemite falls
Kyle always has the best albums on display
Awesome video, love your channel dude
Thank you!
You did it again. Love the nerdy perspective.
i really enjoy your presentation style, you keep it moving but not rushed and with great factoids!
That was one of your most-interesting videos, Kyle. I kept saying, “Holy S***!” over and over with each superlative you brought up. Great job.😊
Really enjoyed this video! One of my favourites so far :)
Kyle, this was awesome! Do more vids like this!!!
The nerdiness is strong in this video, Kyle. Thanks!!
Loving this series. Keep em comin, Kyle !
Congrats on 200k subs!
Hawaii got into half of the categories listed in your video. Weehah!! I feel we should've been in the caves section also, due to Kazumura Cave being considered one of the longest *lava tube* caves in the world. Great video. Mahalo!
Great video, Kyle! Just an FYI, East Port is technically not the most eastern point in the United States. That goes to Quoddys Head State Park just south of there. Keep up the great work!
Manitoulin Island is the largest freshwater lake in the world. Manitoulin Island itself has 108 freshwater lakes, some of which have their own islands. Lake Manitou, at 104 km2 (40 sq mi), is the largest lake in a freshwater island in the world, and Treasure Island in Lake Mindemoya is the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake in the world.
Fantastic list! Thanks!
Great, clear and interesting as always
Regarding the depth to area ratio, there's actually a little known lake in Hawaii that has a higher depth to area ratio than Crater Lake. Lake Kauhako is a crater lake in the Kauhako crater on the Island of Moloka'i. It has a depth of about 814 feet (about 248 meters), but has a width of only about 160 feet (about 50 meters). Crater lake on the other hand is 1949 feet deep, but about 5 to 6 miles in diameter.
punching a hole!
I had to look that up, thinking you were describing an incredibly deep pond. It's actually 1,600 feet in diameter, not 160. But you are correct that it's has a diameter-to-depth ratio greater than Crater Lake. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for that info. I had never even heard of Kauhako. Further proof that those little islands in the middle of the Pacific pack a lot of physical geography punch.
Fascinating video! I wonder if you could do a video about the oldest exposed rock formations in North America. Incidentally, I used to live in northeast Tennessee, where there is a very high incidence of kidney stones. Apparently this results from the combination of karst geology (lots of limestone in that whole area, with cave systems like Mammoth) and the local predilection for drinking iced tea. Something in the tea combines with the calcium in the water to create calcium oxalate, which composes most or all kidney stones.
Hawaii isn't in north America
Great vid as always, man. There's so much cool stuff out there to see, it's bs I only get about 80 years on the planet to explore everything. Good luck paddling through the whirlpool, I'm sure it will work out great! lol
Nice video. When I visited Jewel cave in the black hills the guide was saying they find new areas of the cave every year. The guide said that Jewel cave could one day surpass Mammoth.
It’s amazing to think that there is a whole world beneath our feet.
Great video!
Thank you geography king for being the king of interesting geography facts
Your videos are just wonderful. Thanks for your positive channel.
ah man, no one ever gives Black Canyon enough credit, I was hoping to see it listed for the steepest canyon! great video though!
Always learn something new from you!
Awesome video, thanks for making it.
Congratulations on 200k, Kyle!
Thank you for so many quality videos! Another great one
Great video as always
Always great stuff! (I was holding my breath for Nahani Falls in the Northwest Territory-good thing that portion wasn’t too long! Always loved the legend of the Dead Man’s Valley.
Glad my feed algorithm finally spotted you again.
Excellent!
A fun topic for a video might be examining the different "Grand Canyons" in various states. Besides the most famous one, there's Letchworth State Park in upstate New York (sometimes referred to as the "Grand Canyon of the East"), the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, which is in your state park video, and Providence Canyon of Georgia, which is sometimes referred to as "Georgia's Little Grand Canyon." Come to think of it, Breaks Interstate Park, in far southwestern Virginia along the border with Kentucky, is also referred to as a "Grand Canyon."
Good stuff. Keep it coming.
Love your content!
Excellent.
one of your best presentations
Another great video. Thank you geo king 🙏🏻
Another "Fact"-ion Packed video Kyle! No filler in your videos, for sure! Now I gotta go watch it again to absorb all the info! 👍 👍
love your top so much btw
Thanks dude
Greetings from Visalia
Always a thumb's up for your videos. 👍
Excellent as always!
Excellent video format. If and when it gets stale, you can do in depth looks into each topic, such as Crater lake or Copper Canyon. Thanks for the content!
Fun video! Learned a lot
Great episode
Great video as always, very informative content!
At 3:01 that is the upper falls of Yosemite Falls.
Always appreciate your videos. I have an idea for a video. How about comparing the 50 state's state highway signs? Similar to the state welcome signs video. thanks!
Great job, as always. Here’s hoping that next year we can see a new version of March Madness.
Is that a copy of Tales from Topographic Oceans I see there behind you?? Stupendous taste :D
May I humbly request an episode about the beautiful Colorado Plateau, please and thank you.
Awesome!!! Love your channel
This video is amazing
Really cool video
Solid video 👌
Great video ! So entertaining, cool seeing the deepest pit in Georgia may be worth the trip from Tennessee to check it out
Awesome video
I love when this guy makes vids
Great stuff. Keep up the good work! :-)
On Manitoulin Island, Canada, you could take your canoe to an island in Mindemoya Lake or Lake Kagawong. If so, you would be on an island in a lake in an island in a lake.
Hello! This is the first video from your channel that I have watched. I really enjoyed it, as I enjoy studying geography. You described many places I would like to visit in America. I live in Nebraska, and would love to visit the falls in Souix Falls, S.D. I know they are not very big, but the fact that they built the city around them, and they are the spotlight of the community sounds very interesting.
A book that brings the rock formations of Utah to life is "Riders of the Purple Sage,"
By Zane Grey. I felt I was there, walking over the Rainbow Bridge.
Woot!! I was born and raised on Manitoulin Island. Beautiful place! You should check it out!
another great vid
Seeing Hell's Canyon felt otherworldly to me, like I stepped off earth and onto an entirely different planet. 30+ years of learning the world's other various large geographical anomalies didn't prepare me for the absolutely massive scale of Hell's Canyon's drop off. A must see in person
NC hasn't got much in the way of truly huge landscape features, but we do have the highest mountain ( Mt Mitchell ) east of the Mississippi (I still believe east of the Rockies, not counting the one in SD ) and the tallest tree east of the Mississippi. It's a pine tree that's 185 ft 6" ( if it's still standing ). More people visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in a typical year than all of the other parks combined. So the old North State has some pretty cool places ( in the mountains of course) . It makes me proud to be an old NC hillbilly. 😌
The Peace river actually does have several dams including the WAC Bennett dam in northern BC
Mammoth Cave is the longest in terms of mapped passages, but it's believed that the 215 mapped miles of Jewel Cave in SD is only 3% to 5% of its total volume. This is based on the amount of air that "breathes" in and out when the air pressure changes. It's almost certainly the longest cave system, but the passages can be extraordinarily tight in a lot of places so the vast majority has never been explored.
10:19 feet and meters swapped. What an arch!
This video feels like it’s chock-full of trivia answers
Wish you could like videos twice always great stuff
Moab, Utah......Landscape Arch has a span of 309 ft...or one football field in length. It is located in The Devil's Garden section of Arches National Park. A one mile hike from the parking lot.
Is it a coincidence that in a video about the biggest, tallest, longest, etc., you have a copy of what might just be the longest album in rock history in the background?
Nice video, but I was hoping to see you mention other common natural formations like deserts, glaciers, forests, etc… or certain features of natural formations like the prominence of a mountain, volcanic calderas, etc…
I am from LaFayette, GA, about 20 minutes from Ellisons Cave. I didn't know you were from the area!
Top tier video
The MacKenzie has its origins in Alberta (and a bit in Saskatchewan) but it mainly flows through the Northwest Territories. In fact, the MacKenzie proper begins in Great Slave Lake, NWT.
VERY COOL,,THANK YOU