Bouvet Island: The Most Isolated Piece of Land on Earth
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Colonising an island but then forgetting which one it was you colonised is a beautifully British thing to do
Omg I watched your Minecraft vid's in like 3rd Grade
I am from norway!!! and my street is called south georgia, so those that mean i live in one the most isolated piece of land on earth.
ibx2cat true
hey toycat what are you doing here
omg toycat hey, shoulda figured you would watch him tbh
Bouvet Island is actually just where Club Penguin used to be.
Those flashes were a Disney-contracted PMC bombing the island
Make me smile :)
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@@oppfattet f
umm this vid seems familiarrrr.....
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If you stand on Bouvet Island alone, and the International Space Station is passing over nearby, the astronauts aboard the ISS will be the closest humans to you at that given time.
For reference, the ISS orbits 408km above the earth.
Real Life Lore? xD
Just stole the quote from the Reallifelore
Oi Bugger off M8
And the Island is only 3 degrees from the ISS orbital inclination so at its closest it would be about 520 km away.
The reason Norway also has a claim on a huge chunk of the south pole is because of Roald Amundsen (A famous Norwegian arctic explorer) he was the first to reach the south pole. So for winning this competition between Norway and Britain, Britain respected Norway's claim to the islands and the chunk of the south pole. Could maybe be a video topic? :))) liked the video anyways top quality as always.
Maybe high schools in Britain or Norway, but probably not anywhere else.
Maybe your countries education system sucks because you measure an education systems value by how many minor details of history it teaches.
I wouldnt argue that the claims to the south pole is "basic history". As a Norwegian myself I didnt even learn this in school (history classes is quite lacking tbh).
We need more memes!
You dosent seem like the guy who would say that
"Of course the British fundamentally disagreed with the idea that anyone could just show up, plant a flag, and decide land was theirs."
*Gold.*
No it is not. It just ignorant.
4:50 please make a video explaining why you want to bring Batman to a deserted island
He needs Batman's magic utility belt to keep his iPad charged.
Duh ;-)
He's been writing the fanfic for fourteen years now, if the option to make his otp a reality was available....
So there is someone to shred the gnar with
Not any batman, Adam West specifically. hahaha
Because he's Barman!
- Turn on subtitles
- 1:22
- Asserting British dominance
- KILLING *WALES*
Well we did massacre many Celts when we invaded England in the 5th Century AD if I've not mistaken but we left Wales untouched. Conspiracy theory maybe?
Ricky911 are you Anglo Saxon?
@@parakeetiscool7647 technically, I'm not but I grew up in England. My parents were both Italian but I never felt a bit of patriotism for Italy so I like to consider myself English although I'm not actually Anglo-Saxon. I don't know if I have any English DNA however I do know I have Scandinavian DNA because my area of origin in Italy was conquered by the Normans, who were vikings. I say "we" because it's my nation but sadly my ancestors never actually did any of what I'm saying 😭😭
🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
@@Ricky911_ I like to think the Normans were an army of guys named Norm. Norman Bates, Norm from Cheers…
The most isolated island is our secret base in the Pacific Ocean.
Oh fuck
Forget what you guys just read
Please
Is it the same place where you keep Cthulhu?
@@ribspreader123 Sir step outside, we need to speak to you for a second.
Introverts: ”no one lives here you say???”
Brb packing my bags, now I know where my next destination is!
But then it'll just be a colony of introverts
A A then they all will want to move because lots of people are there.
A Glass of Freshly Squeezed Ass Juice that’s quite the username lol
Smug Anime Girl it’s the price you gotta pay to not have to talk to anyone...
There’s also a mystery around the island. In 1964 a South African research team visited the island and found a life boat half swamped off the island’s only beach
The boat had no markings of any kind and a few hundred yards away from the boat they found the oars, a 44 gallon water drum, pieces of wood, and a buoyancy tank.
The South Africans thought castaways just have landed on the island and made a search but found no human remains. Eventually the weather turned bad and the South Africans has to leave
The islands weren’t visited again until two years later in 1966 and by then the boat and everything else that was in the beach was gone without a trace. No one knows how it got there or where it went.
It's now thought to be from a Soviet expedition in the late 50s. They landed in the boat but abandoned it to evacuate by helicopter.
Was that St Helena Island? I'm originally from South Africa and served in the navy.
It's not flashes of light from nukes it's just my new textile factory promotion
- Israel
I thought it was ice cream factory?
@@thestudentofficial5483 nope, we kept highly secretive fabric in our dimona "textile plant", so secret that dosens of square kilometers are highly guarded by cameras and a spy blimp
israel > palestine
@@jinxd511 preach
James Knox Israel blamed the Maine on Spain.
Wait, Bouvet island might be too isolated to use the Skillshare app.
Indeed.
Solar charger, satellite internet. Should work until the battery has reached end-of-life. No Apple Store there.
Jens Schmidt but he wasn’t going to bring a satellite charger or satellite internet. (Random fun fact, Iridium internet is fastest at the poles since the orbital planes they use have lots of overlapping over the poles.)
there is no sunlight for half of the year at the poles. good luck with that.
@@jordannewbold8769 Bouvet Island is at 54°26'S, well outside the polar circles. About as southward as Kiel in Germany is north. More than 6 hours of sunlight on the shortest day.
Several years ago I was trying to find an uninhabited island to move to. It turns out all the uninhabited islands are uninhabited for a reason (flooding, no fresh water, nothing to eat, and so on). This is another one that is uninhabited for a reason. But I guess if you could clear off enough ice to build a house and a dock, you might theoretically be able to survive on fish and melted ice, but you would definitely need regular shipments of fuel for heating. But there really is no attractive reason for someone to want to live there. It's not exactly a tropical paradise.
Get the abundant wealth to build an extreme subterranean base. Geothermal would be your friend, and you could still live off the surface resource too
Run a nuclear reactor. That takes care of heat and electricity. A breeder reactor will keep the fuel cycle alive for the rest of time (or most of it anyway).
The attractive reason is utter, absolute, magnificent desolation. There is NOTHING. And almost nobody would ever know anyone was there, or that "there" exists. Norway probably would not find out for some time, or care if ye arrived unannounced. This is one of few ways to truly disappear.
Secretly take over North sentinel Island, and the Indian Navy keeps everyone out for you. I've had the thought 😂
Norway: trying to be a world power since 793.
They were actually pretty successful at it for a few centuries.
@@jeffbenton6183 Yep - even 'discovered' the North American continent.
I wish people could realise that. It is so sad that everyone thinks of empires as Italy in 100 Bce, France in the 17 century, and England, but Norway colonized and raided all these places for hundreds of years. I am not from Norway, I am just obsessed with it, And I wan to go there one day!
@@davidwallin7518 Vinland ;) yes..
@@jeffbenton6183 Jada det var vi :)
Bouvet is one of the most sought-after places for making contacts via amateur radio,
for which a small group of people will occasionally show up there and operate stations for a few days.
I knew it was an extremely isolated location,
but until I saw this video I didn't know about the perpetual ice on it.
There is one currently in February 2023
You should read the great article “An Abandoned Lifeboat at World’s Edge” about an unexplained lifeboat that was discovered on the shore of Bouvet Island in 1964. It has recently seemingly been resolved, but it’s a fascinating read.
Why is there no mention of the mysterious boat that was found on the island? That's the most interesting thing about Bouvet Island
Oooooooo
The island has its own unused domain name too .bv
who do we have to ask to register a domain .bv?
both .bv and .sj(Svalbard and Jan Mayen) can be applied for to Uninett Norid, but their standing policy is to not issue any .bv. and .sj domains, only .no(Norway).
For now
.tf is the domain for the French and Southern Antarctic lands
@@kapparattlerkapparattler6114 .sh for Saint Helena 🇸🇭!
.BVI for British Virgin Islands?
And I thought the USSR was the most isolated place in the world
North korea?
Username checks out
Hey Lenin arent you on our side
USSR saved the world.
Official Kim jong un hi fatso
I served in the British army, on South Georgia, for 7 months in the 1990s, very interesting tour, nice for the scenery but not a lot happened, we were at King Edward Point across the bay from Grytviken(an old closed down whaling station), which had a couple living there on a small sailing yacht(they wrote a book on the island, which i have a signed copy), they kept the church going and looked after graves, which included the grave of Sir Ernest Shakleton. The Habour master also lived at KEP, he was the defacto governor of the island and controlled the payment of fishing rights (serious money, in the millions per big ship) and ran the post office, and the two marines in or detachment were effectively the island police force. I was one of the 4 man signals detachment that kept all the comms going, there were also engineers that looked after the generators and ridged raider boats, as well as a an army chef, an officer and a St Helenan assistant chef, that was it over winter, hardly more than a dozen people,other than the British Antarctic survey team at the north of the island, who i never met. We did get quite a few cruise ships in the warmer months, and they all came off at KEP looked around Grytviken, bought books and especially, as he said here, stamps and postcards, from the post office,,
We were resupplied by boat every month, if it could get there, and mail and small supplies were dropped into the harbour from a Hercules aircraft, which we went out and scooped up in our rigid raiders(waterproofed packages obviously), no airport so it couldn`t land, and the Falklands was too far for a helicopter. No R & R because the ship came, stayed 2 days, and left, it was a four day each way trip, and it didn`t come back for a month, that was too long for crucial staff to be away so no tour break. Physical training was mainly inside, as in winter you sometimes had to be lashed together to get from the accom to the end of the pier, when the weather was better we got to run up the mountainside to the reservoir, but mainly involved running up and down the stairs in the accom. The runs outside in squads always involved jumping over elephant seals, or at least stepping on their backs and jumping off, as they were too big to leap in one go, they were everywhere, but didnt move fast but liked to lie on the flat smooth bits, which was the only path from KEP to Grytviken and the reservoir,, fur seals were the worst, especially the bigger males, they could move a bit, we ran round them with a wider berth.
1:23 That was an unfortunate typo (activate the subtitles)
I activated the subtitles and I can't see any typo at that time mark. It looks correct to me.
@@DidrickNamtvedt oh yeah, killing "Wales" is a normal thing to you because you are English, right?
*K I L L I N G W A L E S*
I stunned for 5 seconds until i read another reply
Hidden hatred for Wales confirmed?
I think the most fascinating thing in the whole video was a South African-Israeli nuclear test. What a random pairing of countries.
Not so random - at some time of history both shared one not so fun fact - they were hated by all it's neighbours
@@Kur4n I mean that hasn’t changed: none of Israel or South Africa’s neighbors like them still lol.
@@taylormonroe8614 yes but no. Since South Africa is now fighting white, not black people like in apartheid days, it's more active on diplomatic basis and it's neighbours don't hate them as much anymore
Bouvet has an unmanned Norwegian weather station which requires service every couple of years. I suppose it is there to give info to the fishing fleet.
you might want to change the description, in the video you said "2 months for free" and the description says "2 months for 99c" 🤷
Some bond villain probably lives under Bouvet
Noah Bowie be quiet
Noah Bowie ...
No, I think Elon Musk lives in California.
Ernst Blowfeld?
Jair Bolsonaro lives in Brazil, so no
Tierzoo reference at the start was great dude
I caught that too
Yes Tierzoo
I was wondering when someone would mention that
As a Brit, i want to pull you up on one fact. Yes we may repress our emotions and make bad political decisions but beer here in the south of England is extremely expensive in comparison to lots of Europe!
BirdLife International identified Bouvet Island as an Important-Bird-Area since it serves as a crucial breeding area for seabirds. There were over 117,000breeding penguins on this island in 1978 and 1979.
The reason Norway has terretories here makes sense though as we were the first to the south pole.
Also the extensive Norwegian whaling industry back in the days
1:23 with subtitles on: The most unfortunate typo in the history of typos. Also brutally honest history.
@Неороманист ROFL
Very cool video! I also have a fascination with very remote places, so I enjoyed this. I would love to see more videos like this. Thanks!
Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.
LOVE the Geography aspect of videos like this!!! Keep it up;)
If Wendover doesn't make an airline reference I will be disappointed.
@Džudžan And map over flight routes
0:34 He did it in this video too. almost.
Normie
4:40 Usually people mix up "climactic" and "climatic" the one way, but you mixed them up the other way, you rebel! 😉
Wait I thought you meant Delaware?
That is the most forgotten place on Earth, not the most isolated. It is also the reason why so many companies are "located" (formally incorporated) there.
@GlanderBrondurg But seriously companies actually incorporate there because it's easy and cheap to do so.
More like Vermont
And one day , Detroit MI is gonna surpass it
Delaware doesn’t exist except on paper.
"Eating whale and burning whale oil was once popular until it wasn't" 😂😂😂😂😂
Whale tast goooood
I am from norway!!! and my street is called south georgia, so those that mean i live in one the most isolated piece of land on earth.
No Way ! South Georgia St ! How Far is Your Closest Neighbour ?
@@holoholopainen1627 like 30 meters
just found your channel, love it, very interesting, thanks buddy from BC Canada
"Cheap beer"
**Laughs in Londoner**
I bet when he said "bad political decisions" he was tempted to put an article on Brexit before thinking "it's not worth a 50% dislike ratio"🙄
Nah only 48%
probably way less than 50% by now, from either death or using their brains
The EU sucks
Well Brexit was voted on by the general public. So less of a bad policies from the government. That stamp act is what actually lead to the American war for Independence.
+Supah X
It's a very trendy thing to shit on the EU right now, huh?
It’s funny because I was sitting in the back of my French class today and I saw that little island on the map. It really threw me off because I was like why is it owned by Norway? 😂
Cause them Norski explorers and whalers
Love the video and bouvet has from time to time scientist coming on it.
Could you perhaps make one about the kerguelen?
Ha u think that that is the most isolated place on earth?try being in class when everyone else has ditched
Since it's 1,000 miles from the nearest land mass, and literally no one is even near there, let alone goes there, if it, one, had not been a volcano, and two, had not been antarctic, I would say that I need to be there. Yes, Gilligan's Island, but with one castaway, instead of seven.
Norgesveldet was before a name for Norwegian territorys that included Iceland, Faroe Islands, Svalbard, Jan Mayen, Bear Island, Greenland, Orkney Island, Shetland. And bits of other countries. When Norway was forced out of union with Denmark and into union with Sweden, Norgesveldet did not follow it was left with Denmark. And also abit in Antartica and some islands around as this video show :)
Except for svalbard. Svalbard was unclaimed terretory until after ww1.
More like the most ICE-olated place on earth! Amiright?!
I'm sorry. I'll leave....
Just bugger off... but I must admit, it was a nice pun
*oi bugger off m8*
yes
@@BeyondtheTherapyDoor It was indeed an ice pun.
Don’t be giving her the cold shoulder now...
I thought St Helena was the most isolated and that's why they confined Napoleon there .
Is it really so strange that Norway owns a lot of land on Antarctica? Considering they were the first people to reach the South Pole?
Norwegians could have probably just claimed the entire continent.
Basically my social life.
Same 😂😂
Same😂
Watching this during the covid. Sounds like a good place to ride it out.
the way you make videos is absolutely amazing and i love it !!!!! and specially the way you sell skillshare lol XD
Fun fact: Despite its remoteness, there are 22 wikipedia articles about this island, literally having an article for ever little rock/islet... (according to Google Earth)
2:40 Waitaminute....
A small extinct volcanic island that is the most isolated place on Earth?
Did we just find the secret base of every mad scientist that has ever existed?
AVP definitely comes into mind, I'm surprised that it doesn't even have an abandoned whaling station irl unlike some of the other islands you have mentioned.
Funny, I thought the same thing about the abandoned whaling station.
I visited Bouvet Island. It’s lovely in spring.
4:46 If I was stuck on Bouvet Island I would bring a helicopter, a pilot and fuel
Sadly helicopters can only fly about 250mi and I imagine refuelling mid flight isn't gonna be possible
@@comma_thingy a plane then
@@artacrosstheuniverse A plane with enough fuel to reach anywhere would have a little bit of an issue taking off from the island.
don't forget who got to the south pole first 🇳🇴💪
Vikings?
@@user-ms7xg1ic9o no, rohald amundsen
@@solberg7049 who is that
@@user-ms7xg1ic9o a norwegian explorer
@@solberg7049 sort of a viking right?
Man I love your videos so much! The second I see one, I click on it!
I love how it has been uploaded on my birthday
Yeah...like Norway just don't want to give up like 'I must hold on to this piece of ice that will eventually melts!'
Look, we like our glaciers. Allright?
You couldn't be more right... This comic explains it all amp.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/41fqom/norways_colonies/
It is a bit ironic Norway also is on of the biggest oil/natural gas producers.
James Knox ay bro someone gotta keep the demand happy. We don't use it we sell it. Classic CIA tactics
It’s so they can have stake in the Antarctic it gives them a bigger seat at Antarctic negotiations.
i read in google around this island, and for some reason this island have it's own domain thing (like .com .eu) it is ".bv" administrated by Norway.
Thanks for making this video
Amateur radio operators sometimes travel to Bouvet to set up two way radio communications around the world. So, in case you get stranded, wait for the next group of amateur radio operators to show up.
You should discuss the abandoned life raft that was found on this island and could never be traced to anyone or any ship. Given that it’s 1,000 miles from land the thought of a life raft there is scary.
If you want to include France as a country that "colonized half the world", then you should also include Spain, who once held an empire where the sun never set.
I'm loving the humour in the ad :)
"Oi bugger off m8" made me chuckle
Bouvet Island would be the perfect place to build my secret evil base! I mean... uh... I didn't say anything.
You meant "visit for a holiday", right?
A very long holiday...
As a South African I can tell you it is a terrible place for a base, absolutely no where to build one, especially not under the tarps 30m from the most Southern tip... forget I mentioned it, just, uhm, don't go there
Hmm.. try and i get you ;)
Cheep beer in England! Yeah that's just not true. Please add this to the list of your mistakes as a pint on average costs £4-6 in southern England
Not all of the English live in southern England ;)
@@MichaelGGarry Still where outside of a student bar can you get a pint for less than £2 (Spoons doesn't count)
£4-6 ain't to bad... You can also just walk for 30 minutes and you'll be in Northern England and have cheap beer ;)
Try coming to Norway where you can pay 8-9£ for a pint.
You should switch to drinking bitter friend, it's at least 50p cheaper and much more flavoursome!
Sort of interesting story: I had a map of the world that showed both Bouvet Island and Lindsay Island. I never gave it much noticed until I really learned about Bouvet's isolation. So I did some digging and found out that Lindsay Island was the name given to Bouvet all those years ago. For a long time no-one really knew where either lay, so they just accepted i
both on maps. The cheap map maker (it was a desktop map probably mass-produced somewhere), copied this fake Lindsay Island somewhere in the 90s even though it had been long discredited.
Every radio amateur's mouth started watering up from this. 3Y, guys, let's do it
Was that a reference to tierzoo I heard?
Nah, pretty sure my attic is the most isolated piece of land on earth.
That transition. Smooth af
I have been monitoring Ventusky and on February 21, 2024, at 10 PM, i observed a series of significant wave events ending in Lagos on February 28 at 4 AM. These huge waves consistently originate from this particular island. The latest event was recorded on May 27, 2024, between 10 AM and 4 PM. In total, I have identified seven similar events, which have all led me to pinpoint this specific island.
So, what about the weather blob comeing from this island?
I've watched enough of HAI video to know when the ad come
There's a certain keyword to it that makes me close the video as soon as he said it
Thanks for a nice video. Bouvet island may be more off from any other land but the other Norweigian Island Peter 1st Island is far more distant as it is hard to reach and people have only set foot on Peter 1st island a few times where if radio amatuers 80% of the time but.Bouvet is much more visited.
Love the channel!!
My house is more isolated than this...
E D G Y
2:19 Shag Island
I think I know what the people are doing there ... 😏
“Amphibious human update”
I SENSE TIERZOO
Like How you make so many videoes about Norway👍🏼
It’s actually Tracy Island in disguise! Thunderbirds Are Go😂
Am I the only one who paused the video to see the maritime and aerial traffic ?
This vid got me exploring google maps...again. :P What an amazing planet!
4:38 - climatic** refers to the climate. Climactic relates to the climax of an event or something.
You make very Good videos.Just upload more frequently.
Takes time to make good videos. Quality over quantity.
This HAI guy sounds a bit like that Wendover lad
He is this is his other channell
@Trollanisation r/woosh
ynwa forever r/woooosh
Hla Elghuwael r/woooosh
This has the same energy of sending a settler 300 turns ago in some fogged area in Civilization and plopping a town on it
2:26 Peter-I. -Insel is below the 60th paralel which means it is under the same law as the rest of Antartica (it can't be claimed by any country and Norway's claim isn't internationaly recognized).
ok this is epic
~Ben Shapiro
You'll need to explain how Argentina "won" a war on South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands.
This should be hilarious and interesting.
Their is also a place called grytvike n, which I believe is included in the falkland islands
Was waiting to see if you would bring up the Bouvet Island lifeboat mystery...
There better be a Wikipedia page about it ! Isn't that why this channel existes ? TWL??
Almost every discovered island has a wikipedia article
@@JamesKnox i meant island in seas/oceans
@@JamesKnox but indonesia has an article and the philipines have an article. These islands are part of the "mainland"
Cool, spesialy sins i am from Norway.
Fun fact: In the ham radio world, Bouvet Island is the most valuable and wanted place to get a radio contact with. On 2nd place we have North Korea.
I might be recalling wrongly, but doesn't that Island have an abandoned/emergency radio station as it's only building?
Learned a little about the island yuears ago when it's location on the world map grabed my curiosity. I mean whats there to build a bot off if ytou stranded there, fish, seals and birds. and try to make a boat from that and set sail towards any of the nearby large locations to go for is also a pretty much impossible gamble.