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Well the Problem with the North Pole is that it's not a landmass. Under the Ice the is Ocean/water. So for somebody to own the North pole, they would have to secure the ocean floor. On the other hand the ressource scramble is fiercer around the north pole because of the direct influence the USA and Russia can exert. Also the USA have several military bases in the arctic circle. Like on Greenland or in Alaska
Any of the Map Men videos are good to some extent 😊 but the earlier ones are rather short at only a few minutes long. UK focused you have "Where is the North / South Divide?" and "The World's Oldest Border". India focused: "India/Bangladesh - The World's Worse Border" Far East: "Who owns the South China Sea" Maybe you would need to combine and review a few of them at a time.
Nope. He said -60 Centigrade was the same as -60 Celsius. This was a 'British' joke because, obviously, Centigrade and Celsius is the same thing, and nothing to do with Fahrenheit.
Just complementing the information here: a centigrade scale is any scale that has 100 degrees between its two standard measurement points. For temperatura we measure freezing and boiling. Both Celsius and Kelvin have 100 degrees between those temperatures. Centi + Grade = 100 + marks/lines/slots
7:09 All of those are 100% real And yes Germany did claim land in Antarctuca and had that military expedition there They named it Neuschwabenland, or New Swabia, named after the expedition ship, which was named after Swabia in Germany And poor Pearl Harbour got their Vending Machine restocked on Saturday the day before the attack
@@muhammadirfanjalaluddin1018 Yes, it has a long history of switching hands between Scotland and England as it lies close to the modern border between the two countries. The joke is that because of this historical dispute Berwick needs to be uniquely mentioned when the UK is involved in peace negotiations. It's a throwback to one of their other videos about the border between Scotland and England being one of the oldest in the world. ruclips.net/video/9DqZYsckBwI/видео.html
@@ayeready6050 here is an extract from an article I found The tale that Berwick-upon-Tweed remained at war with Russia following the Crimean conflict is believed to date from about 1914. Peterborough of the Daily Telegraph made reference to this state of affairs in 1935, but in a subsequent article of the 5th December 1935 went on to say that he was apparently… “unduly alarmist in informing the inhabitants of Berwick-upon-Tweed that they were still at war with Russia. When England declared war on Russia on March 28, 1854 Queen Victoria signed the declaration in her full title Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed and the British Dominions beyond the sea. When peace was declared the British representatives, as I stated, forgot all about Berwick-upon-Tweed. This “state of war” was not discovered by the Foreign Office until October 1914. Then a separate treaty was hastily concluded between Berwick and the Russian Imperial Government which terminated the town’s sixty year war.”
To give context to the Berwick-upon-Tweed Joke, Its a border town between England and Scotland that historicaly was claimed by both. It was occasionally mentioned separately In treaties because of this.
Berwick-upon-Tweed is also said to still be at war with Russia due to this - mentioned in declaration of (Crimean) War against Russia but not in the Treaty of Paris that ended the conflict. 🤔
Great video, as usual. In answer to your thought about the Appendix....The answer is no, you do not have to have your appendix removed, but doctors who are wintering at Australian Antarctic stations do have to have their appendix removed. This is because there is usually only one doctor on station during winter, and evacuation back to medical care in Australia is impossible for at least part of the year. The requirement dates from the 1950s, when an Australian Antarctic doctor got appendicitis on Heard Island, meaning an incredibly challenging evacuation back to Australia. In 1961, a Russian doctor successfully removed his own appendix at Novolazarevskaya station in Antarctica. With no outside help possible, he used local anaesthetic and had two expeditioners assist with surgical retractors and a mirror so that he could see what he was doing. The operation was a success, and the doctor was back on duty within two weeks. This is not a situation that Australian Antarctic doctors would like to find themselves in!
The main difference between the south and north poles is that the South Pole is near the centre of a huge continent (Antarctica) and the North Pole is near the centre of a huge ocean (the Arctic Ocean).
Actually, Antarctica isn't a singular continent but actually a large archipelago covered by kilometres thick ice which makes the multitude of islands appear to be a singular land mass.
The Map men video on the UK north south divide is good. I always recommend the Jay Foreman politics video who is in charge of Britain. Both will go well in your British culture content. All the videos are good so watch what you think is interesting.
The American Bases are in the British and New Zealand sections. As well as the south pole but everyone has one there. They have still not used their "free claim token." You'd be surprised how many American bases are on British territories around the world.
My friend worked for British Antartic survey for a few years. He said he was pissed every night and there was that much beer stacked in the pool table room, they had to cut the cues down to 2ft.
Berwick-upon-Tweed was famously still at war with Russia as it was included in the declaration of war (crimean war) but not in the peace treaty, so even though the Crimean War finished in 1856, the 'official' end was 1966 - see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_extended_by_diplomatic_irregularity
Lol your comment about the weird thing of having summer here when you guys in the northern hemisphere are in winter remind me when i was a little kid, i thought when here is winter, it is in the whole world, etc. In addition to that i used to think the north pole was hot, because the more north you go here in south america, the more hot it gets; so my 5 years old imagination thought the north pole would be boiling hot.
I'd never thought about the whole north/south cold/hot thing before and how it switches across the equator. I've always equated South with warmer weather, particularly as most of the well-known countries in the Southern hemisphere are hot places, compared to here at least.
@@hannahk1306 That's because most of the landmasses in the southern hemisphere are located closer to the equator (with the exception of cold antartica and southern Chile/Argentina), while the northern hemisphere has larger landmasses covering both ground closer to the north pole like Norway, Russia or Canada and hot terrain closer to the equator like Mexico, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc.
The Berwick-upon-Tweed joke is mentioned in the English Scottish border video they do. I believe it's a reference to that video because of a funny quirk of that town
A good friend of mine worked for the British Antarctic survey some time ago and lived there. Taught me a lot about hypothermia when we were out hiking together.
Just to clarify, that list about Germany claiming part of Antarctica, Argentina declaring war on Germany, and the term "Liberty Steak" being used (facetiously) to describe hamburgers are all completely true. You seemed to think that they were joking, and I just want you know that they definitely were not. Also, the US has not broken the treaty. There are no US military bases in Antarctica.
Hi the reference to Berwick Upon Tweed is because it flips between being in England and Scotland and so is mentioned in most declarations of war and peace treaties involving UK.
Her description of Antarctica makes it sound somewhat like the International Space Station, e.g. different nations represented, people coming and going, research, and so on.
Between 1100 and 1482 Berwick-upon-Tweed was swapped between England and Scotland about a dozen times. Because of the confusion of who it belonged to, in 1785 Parliament passed the “Wales and Berwick Act” which basically said “when a law says ‘England’ we mean Wales and Berwick too”. Occasionally they still mentioned Berwick explicitly, but they didn’t have to, hence the story of Berwick still being at war with Russia after the Crimean War.
This video missed the most fun fact about Antarctica...In December 1958 Soviet scientists responded to the US' construction of the Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole by building a research station at the Pole of Inaccessibility - the Antarctic's most remote spot. They fixed a plastic Lenin bust to the roof before they left, two weeks later. Today the bust is the only visible part of the station
Binge watched loads of your videos and I have to say I love this channel. It's nice to see somebody who does research. Plus you like map men, that's awesome 👌🏻😂
Heh, I posted a comment for you to review this particular Map Men video just the other day in your Salamanca review 😊 So glad you had already decided to add this to your list!
I would recommend you learn about Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to cross Antartica. I don't know of a good RUclips video but have seen a number of documentaries and the mini series Shackleton. His book describing it was simply entitled "South". He advertised in the London Papers to recruit volunteers. "."
I fell for the "-60 degrees Celsius is the same as -60 Centigrade" joke as well, I thought "no it doesn't". I assumed they said -60 degrees Celsius = -60 Fahrenheit, which it doesn't. -40C = -40F instead. But that's typical of Map Men.
Gal, North pole isn't a continent like Antartica. It is just a bunch of ice floating on water, it moves, melts and rgrows each year (less and less due to climate change making the Russian ports accessible most of the year, now...) The closest USA can get to the North pole on terra firma is Alaska; or Northern Canada if they can. I remember a cruise in Norway with my mother when I was eight. I saw the sun not setting at midnight! A magical moment. My mother wanted us to watch it but she forgot to wake up, I did wake up and opened the shutter on the viewport of our cabin and watched for a few minutes before closing the shutter and returning to bed. As for Antartica, if you can find it, I strongly encourage you to watch the movie Transantartica, it dates from the 80s or 90s but it is still a great experience, I watched it on VHS as a kid. As for what the future holds. The end of the treaty being in 27 years and ice melting so much that resources will likely be easily accessible by then... especially those rare metals so useful in technology and power generation... I doubt that the treaty will be continued. What facilitated the great nations to not exploit it was the fact that it was difficult to access and difficult to live there and install the necessary logistics. If climate becomes more "agreeable", they might reconsider since it is easy ressources and not ressources at 5000 m down into the oceans... The other terrain of dispute for ressources will be... SPACE, the Moon and asteroids in particular, when the tech is developped and in working order for a low enough price, that is, Antartica is much easier ans cheaper to access for now. Antartica is so difficult to access and so remote to live on that scientists in human behaviour take those bases as an example for future space explorations. Working there is basically like working on the Moon, (less and less with all those tourists) but at least it used to be. I like all Mapmen videos but among the best are the one on Cholera in England, France being smaller than thought or USSR making more accurate England maps than the British... Or the one on fake streets on maps. They are short, so watching all of them shouldn't take you so long.
Fun Fact: During the age of the Dinosaurs there was no ice at either pole and some species of dinosaur lived at the south pole despite the almost wholly dark winters.
Flights occur regularly from Christchurch (New Zealand) airport to resupply both the New Zealand and U.S. stations at McMurdo. U.S.A.F. Ski equipped Hercules, C-15's, R.N.Z.A.F. Hercules and 757's regularly fly there in the summer (southern hemisphere). During the eighties I can remember seeing Starlifters and Galaxy's on bases having come down in support. The International Antarctic centre at Cristchurch airport, located near one of the U.S. Antarctic program's building's, is worth a visit if you ever find yourself down our way.
The closest place people live to the North Pole is Svalbard Islands, Norway. Svalbard is an unique place in the world much due to the Svalbard treaty (you should definitely read up on it) where the nations of the world recognise that Svalbard is Norwegian but in return all countries who has signed the treaty may have operations there, however its a demilitarised zone. Its also the only visa free place on earth which has led to an extraordinary diverse population consisting of 50 different nationalities all totaling 2417 people. There's one purely Russian (USSR) called Barentsburg aswell.
Someone I used to work with volunteered on a trip to Antarctica a few years ago to help clean up waste at an abandoned station. On the way there, with the volunteers also crewing a few largish boats across the Drake Passage, there was a medical emergency and it wasn't possible to get back to land or get a helicopter to them and one of them died. I think they had some sort of sattelite internet connection and my work colleague was blogging on the journey. At first we were jealous but then, after reading about how hard the journey was and that somebody had died, we changed our minds and were glad we weren't there with him.
The south pole is on land (Antarctica). The north pole is in the Arctic Ocean, although permanently covered by ice, it can be visited by plane, traversing the Ice sheet by sledge (a BBC TV show drove there from Canada!) and the US Navy visited by smashing a nuclear submarine through the ice to set up a base for a week.
There is an amazing video about Singing Revolution, how people in Baltic region peacefully protested for there independence and maniget to stand in 600km line, more then 2 million people where standing fot there fredom. :)
Countries can use there military in Antarctica in support of scientific endeavours, so the USAF provides transport aircraft and the British Royal Navy a ship, for example. Argentina, Chile and New Zealand also do this.
The South pole is on Antarctica which is a huge island under the ice and snow. The North pole is on an ice sheet floating on the ocean with islands and land masses within the Arctic Circle.
People started carving up Antarctica in the first half of the 20th Century. And those silly things that happened in the second world war did in fact happen! One of my favourites was that the UK government offered a prize for anyone who could build a Death Ray that could kill an animal at a thousand feet.
In addition to this, there is also the Grand Duchy of Westarctica, a micronation that claims the unclaimed Marie Byrd Land. A micronation is basically when a private citizen decides to start their own country in their own backyard or to try and claim a disputed or unclaimed territory of the world. I recommend you do a video on them.
Think that WWII list was correct. I heard that US hamburgers were renamed Liberty burgers, and a lot of other crazy things happened. The list appeared too small on my phone to read, so I can't comment on every fun fact on it. Berwick-on-tweed is not a British joke! It's a small town on the border between Scotland and England which has changed hands frequently down the centuries. If it didn't like some legislation it would claim it was in the other administration. They often added the town name to the end of the list when international treaties were drawn up just to make sure. There was one incident when it was included in the declaration of a war, but missed off when the peace treaty was drawn up a few years later, so technically the town had been at war for about 70 years, when the error was noticed, and no one knew. I'll try and find which conflict it was. Not sure if the quirk has been legislated away, but it was a thing during the 19th and 20th c's
this was the real reason for the falklands war Falkland island is where the ship would be a key port for mining oil ships to use as a base loads of money
A few people have mentioned Berwick and it's unique place in UK history. There is a story (which may or not be entirely true) that the town of Berwick upon Tweed remained at war with Russia after the Crimean War until the 1960s. A separate peace treaty was signed... strange but probably true!
11:01 You're thinking McMurdo Station. "military personnel and equipment may only be used for scientific research or any other peaceful purpose (such as delivering supplies) on the continent." Also since it operates at an oil deficit I'm sure everyone else is fine with this because it means the US has to send oil somewhere that's not the mainland US for a change.
When Britain declared war upon Russia in the Crimean War it was done so on behalf of ‘Britain, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed and all British dominions’. When peace was later made, Berwick-upon-Tweed was not mentioned. Thus a state of war remained from 1854 until 1966, Russians having to live in constant fear for over one century as to what Berwick-upon-Tweed might do.
I think it's pretty much up for grabs, so if you want to homestead a few acres, go for it! if you're standing right atop the South pole, is EVERY direction north?
i knew a South African woman at work, who got fired for repeated absenteeism.. but then got a job with a British Antarctica "expedition" .. thanks to her degree in marine biology.. she was going off to study algae or something for 6 months down there.. presumably in some camp like the one in "THE THING" ....
Yes the US does have a base there, but as it mentions earlier in the video the US and USSR were exempt from the limitations put on other countries who already held claims in the Antarctic. And as for why the North Pole isn’t explored or occupied like Antarctica is. The North Pole is simply a spot on a mass of ice in the North Atlantic. Whereas Antarctica is actually a continental land mass, ie it’s a continent in its own right that’s just covered in ice, and not just a floating mass of ice in the middle of the ocean...
This subject is actually becoming very real in the North as well; you have nations claiming ownership of the North Pole (despite the lack of proper landmass) for strategic reasons and potential resource claims. It is in this light that especially Russia, China and the USA are 'butting heads' in the region. Your former President suggested to buy Greenland (and by implication, also its people), a part of the kingdom where I live; this is of course because he is well aware that global warming is real and a lot of potential real estate is up for grabs when more and more ice melts. This didn't stop him from riding a political platform claiming that global warming is a hoax, a lie, a conspiracy. :)
7:15 I think the first three might be real, or partly so, but I'm not going to look it up and have my illusions shattered by boring old reality 11:03 Tourists can (or could in 2012) visit a Chilean naval base which houses the odd patrol boat, though that is on an island just off the continent (not truly a continent, but I'll wait for Map Men on that) so maybe, perhaps, speculating, the treaty doesn't quite apply due to not having a court to apply it. And "base" is being a little generous for a few buildings, half a dozen enlisted guys and couple of hundred non-enlisted penguins, but technically it is (or was) an active base.
You should check out TLDR News, they make amazing news videos about the world, us and uk. And I know you're intrested in the uk, which make it perfect because they makes in depth videos about the British Parliment.
Since the Arctic is a giant iceberg/ice-sheet, no one claims it. But, the real problem is that this ice-sheet moves, cracks, shifts, partially melts and then refreezes, so no permanent buildings can be built on it.
The north south winter summer thing. Think of it as a see-saw ( teeter-totter in US?) One is up the other down, they get cold and dark when we are sunny and bright + vice versa. North and South poles are opposite in several ways. The south Pole is a continent surrounded by oceans, the north pole is an ocean surrounded by continents. Antarctica is a land mass about 10,000ft high (it's a plateau) the arctic ocean is about 10,000ft deep. There are military bases in the north because Russia and America/ Canada face each other across the frozen sea. It's more apparent when you look down on a globe. There is no obvious confrontation point in the antarctic. ( unless someone finds vast mineral wealth down there.) The treaty has kept it free of military development's too.
Actually.... Hamburgers WERE in fact renamed into Liberty Steaks, Just as you renamed French Fries into FReedom Fries for a short period of time when you got mad that France didn't join in on the invasion of Iraq.
A terrible rumour that Handforth parish council have relocated their meetings down there...I would second that in a heartbeat, then what would I know I,m from Birkhenhead...brrr
7:12 actually no. 1, 2, 5 and 10 are true. Don't know about the others though. 1. The claim was called New Swabia. It's basically part of Norway at the time but since Germany defeated Norway, they claim New Swabia is part of Germany since Norway was part of Germany. 2. Argentina declared war on the Axis powers on March 27, 1945. 5. Yes, the US did change hamburgers to liberty steak because Hamburgers mean people from Hamburg which is a town in Germany. The US did this to Saurkraut during WW1 and changed it to liberty Cabbage. 10. Montgomery did had a dog named Rommel, for unknown reasons.
McMurdo Station is not a military base. It is strictly for scientific purposes only. The same goes for the South Pole station. America does not claim any portion of Antarctica, but reserves the right to do so. Same goes for Russia.
Some of those things in that top ten list are true, and others could be are but added as a joke (like the vending machine being restocked at Pearl Harbour). Argentina was the last country to declare war against Germany in WW2 and did so in early 1945 (they declared war on Japan at the same time too) The Liberty Steak / Sandwich is true too, although I think it was down to individual restaurant owners not government policy
Thank you for your time and effort in making another interesting video, allowing us to learn along with you. In answer to your question about the North pole, I believe that there is no solid land there. Whereas Antarctica is an island/continent, the Arctic is a frozen ocean. If the ice melts it is just water and nowhere to build on.
No, no military bases there, though the logistics (transport, supply, communications, emergencies, etc.) of the scientific bases are handled by various countries militaries, and in many countries the scientists earn military service medals (including Americans- see the Antarctic Service Medal), so the distinction does start to get somewhat blurry - but you won’t find say tanks or artillery or missile silos there.
The South Pole sits on the land continent of Antarctica, the North Pole is just a sheet of frozen sea ice, no land until you reach Canada, Russia or Scandinavia
The North pole is a frozen ocean, the south pole is a frozen continent. Maybe that's why it has more bases? And the north pole was important to the US and the USSR during the cold war as far as i know.
The difference between Antartica and the North Pole is that Antartica is a continent with land and moutains and valleys and stuff all under the ice, but the North Pole is just ice floating on the Arctic Sea... there's no land there. So if the ice melted it would be a very wet place indeed.
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Well the Problem with the North Pole is that it's not a landmass.
Under the Ice the is Ocean/water.
So for somebody to own the North pole, they would have to secure the ocean floor.
On the other hand the ressource scramble is fiercer around the north pole because of the direct influence the USA and Russia can exert.
Also the USA have several military bases in the arctic circle. Like on Greenland or in Alaska
I already sense resource war coming.
You should watch m.ruclips.net/video/9DqZYsckBwI/видео.html&vl=en-GB to understand the reference to Berwick-upon-Tweed.
I was a map man. I spent 40 + years keeping maps up to date. Great fun.
Any of the Map Men videos are good to some extent 😊 but the earlier ones are rather short at only a few minutes long.
UK focused you have "Where is the North / South Divide?" and "The World's Oldest Border".
India focused: "India/Bangladesh - The World's Worse Border"
Far East: "Who owns the South China Sea"
Maybe you would need to combine and review a few of them at a time.
Nope. He said -60 Centigrade was the same as -60 Celsius. This was a 'British' joke because, obviously, Centigrade and Celsius is the same thing, and nothing to do with Fahrenheit.
Although -40c & -40f are the same temperature. I suspect that this was a deliberate trap laid by the Mapmen.
@@skasteve6528 The 21st century version of a Trap Street 😄 Devious blighters!
@@skasteve6528 Yep, and I walked into it!
Just complementing the information here: a centigrade scale is any scale that has 100 degrees between its two standard measurement points.
For temperatura we measure freezing and boiling. Both Celsius and Kelvin have 100 degrees between those temperatures.
Centi + Grade = 100 + marks/lines/slots
7:09 All of those are 100% real
And yes
Germany did claim land in Antarctuca and had that military expedition there
They named it Neuschwabenland, or New Swabia, named after the expedition ship, which was named after Swabia in Germany
And poor Pearl Harbour got their Vending Machine restocked on Saturday the day before the attack
"that must be a UK joke" -- moment of silence for those actually living in Berwick-upon-Tweed xD
Isn't that an actual place?
@@muhammadirfanjalaluddin1018 Yes, it has a long history of switching hands between Scotland and England as it lies close to the modern border between the two countries. The joke is that because of this historical dispute Berwick needs to be uniquely mentioned when the UK is involved in peace negotiations. It's a throwback to one of their other videos about the border between Scotland and England being one of the oldest in the world. ruclips.net/video/9DqZYsckBwI/видео.html
@@ayeready6050 here is an extract from an article I found
The tale that Berwick-upon-Tweed remained at war with Russia following the Crimean conflict is believed to date from about 1914. Peterborough of the Daily Telegraph made reference to this state of affairs in 1935, but in a subsequent article of the 5th December 1935 went on to say that he was apparently…
“unduly alarmist in informing the inhabitants of Berwick-upon-Tweed that they were still at war with Russia. When England declared war on Russia on March 28, 1854 Queen Victoria signed the declaration in her full title Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed and the British Dominions beyond the sea. When peace was declared the British representatives, as I stated, forgot all about Berwick-upon-Tweed. This “state of war” was not discovered by the Foreign Office until October 1914. Then a separate treaty was hastily concluded between Berwick and the Russian Imperial Government which terminated the town’s sixty year war.”
@@jonathanpatrick8506 The Berwick councillors, after signing it, announced "The people of the Soviet Union can sleep easy in their beds tonight"
@@muhammadirfanjalaluddin1018 Yep, but it is still at war with Imperial Russia, but actually isn't.
To give context to the Berwick-upon-Tweed Joke, Its a border town between England and Scotland that historicaly was claimed by both. It was occasionally mentioned separately In treaties because of this.
Berwick-upon-Tweed is also said to still be at war with Russia due to this - mentioned in declaration of (Crimean) War against Russia but not in the Treaty of Paris that ended the conflict. 🤔
@@thimbur3543 a peace treaty was signed around 1964 if I recall correctly
Yes it was... The Soviet ambassador was told that the people of Russia could sleep peacefully in their beds once more...
SoGal and Map Men in the same video. Now that is quality
Ultimate team up.
Great video, as usual. In answer to your thought about the Appendix....The answer is no, you do not have to have your appendix removed, but doctors who are wintering at Australian Antarctic stations do have to have their appendix removed. This is because there is usually only one doctor on station during winter, and evacuation back to medical care in Australia is impossible for at least part of the year.
The requirement dates from the 1950s, when an Australian Antarctic doctor got appendicitis on Heard Island, meaning an incredibly challenging evacuation back to Australia.
In 1961, a Russian doctor successfully removed his own appendix at Novolazarevskaya station in Antarctica. With no outside help possible, he used local anaesthetic and had two expeditioners assist with surgical retractors and a mirror so that he could see what he was doing. The operation was a success, and the doctor was back on duty within two weeks. This is not a situation that Australian Antarctic doctors would like to find themselves in!
The main difference between the south and north poles is that the South Pole is near the centre of a huge continent (Antarctica) and the North Pole is near the centre of a huge ocean (the Arctic Ocean).
Yeah, I was thinking the same. 😊
The north pole is in the middle of the ocean. Barely any land in the arctic.
@@Rooo8 *Except big chunks of Alaska, Canada, Russia, Denmark, Norway and Finland, all been owned for a long time.
Actually, Antarctica isn't a singular continent but actually a large archipelago covered by kilometres thick ice which makes the multitude of islands appear to be a singular land mass.
The Map men video on the UK north south divide is good.
I always recommend the Jay Foreman politics video who is in charge of Britain.
Both will go well in your British culture content.
All the videos are good so watch what you think is interesting.
I just want to thank you for making all of these videos. I love how you like to learn and I'm enjoying learning along with you!
The American Bases are in the British and New Zealand sections. As well as the south pole but everyone has one there. They have still not used their "free claim token." You'd be surprised how many American bases are on British territories around the world.
My friend worked for British Antartic survey for a few years.
He said he was pissed every night and there was that much beer stacked in the pool table room, they had to cut the cues down to 2ft.
Berwick-upon-Tweed was famously still at war with Russia as it was included in the declaration of war (crimean war) but not in the peace treaty, so even though the Crimean War finished in 1856, the 'official' end was 1966 - see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_extended_by_diplomatic_irregularity
Lol your comment about the weird thing of having summer here when you guys in the northern hemisphere are in winter remind me when i was a little kid, i thought when here is winter, it is in the whole world, etc.
In addition to that i used to think the north pole was hot, because the more north you go here in south america, the more hot it gets; so my 5 years old imagination thought the north pole would be boiling hot.
What is even more interesting is where the sun stands. Never in the south... Great way to beat geoguessr btw.
I'd never thought about the whole north/south cold/hot thing before and how it switches across the equator. I've always equated South with warmer weather, particularly as most of the well-known countries in the Southern hemisphere are hot places, compared to here at least.
@@hannahk1306 That's because most of the landmasses in the southern hemisphere are located closer to the equator (with the exception of cold antartica and southern Chile/Argentina), while the northern hemisphere has larger landmasses covering both ground closer to the north pole like Norway, Russia or Canada and hot terrain closer to the equator like Mexico, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc.
The difference is Artic is not a landmass so is like claiming an iceberg as your territory. Did you spot the Schrödinger's cat reference :)
3:57 Antarctica is a desert. A desert is somewhere that gets less than 10 inches of rain a year.
I have loved Map Men for ages and I love your reactions laughing at them so please please please do more 😊
The Berwick-upon-Tweed joke is mentioned in the English Scottish border video they do. I believe it's a reference to that video because of a funny quirk of that town
Ahhhhhh yes, Berwick Upon Tweed........ I think Map Men did a video on it.
Fun fact: the guy at 4:35 is Robert Falcon Scott the great great uncle of actress Kristin Scott Thomas.
Loved the Schrodinger's Cat reference!
7:20 Winston Churchill most likely did eat a pear in ww2 - though it wasn't important for that war.
A good friend of mine worked for the British Antarctic survey some time ago and lived there. Taught me a lot about hypothermia when we were out hiking together.
Just to clarify, that list about Germany claiming part of Antarctica, Argentina declaring war on Germany, and the term "Liberty Steak" being used (facetiously) to describe hamburgers are all completely true.
You seemed to think that they were joking, and I just want you know that they definitely were not.
Also, the US has not broken the treaty. There are no US military bases in Antarctica.
Hi the reference to Berwick Upon Tweed is because it flips between being in England and Scotland and so is mentioned in most declarations of war and peace treaties involving UK.
Her description of Antarctica makes it sound somewhat like the International Space Station, e.g. different nations represented, people coming and going, research, and so on.
Another series you may be interested in once you are done map men, is Unfinished London by Jay Forman
And also politics unboringed.
Between 1100 and 1482 Berwick-upon-Tweed was swapped between England and Scotland about a dozen times. Because of the confusion of who it belonged to, in 1785 Parliament passed the “Wales and Berwick Act” which basically said “when a law says ‘England’ we mean Wales and Berwick too”. Occasionally they still mentioned Berwick explicitly, but they didn’t have to, hence the story of Berwick still being at war with Russia after the Crimean War.
Well I thought the Schrödinger's cat gag was clever.
Deepest lore.
This video missed the most fun fact about Antarctica...In December 1958 Soviet scientists responded to the US' construction of the Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole by building a research station at the Pole of Inaccessibility - the Antarctic's most remote spot. They fixed a plastic Lenin bust to the roof before they left, two weeks later. Today the bust is the only visible part of the station
Binge watched loads of your videos and I have to say I love this channel. It's nice to see somebody who does research. Plus you like map men, that's awesome 👌🏻😂
Thank you!
Argentina claiming something 200 years after it has been claimed....SHOCK HORROR.
Wtf, Base orcadas from Argentina has been populated since 1904, is probably one of the first ones ever made there
Heh, I posted a comment for you to review this particular Map Men video just the other day in your Salamanca review 😊 So glad you had already decided to add this to your list!
I would recommend you learn about Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to cross Antartica. I don't know of a good RUclips video but have seen a number of documentaries and the mini series Shackleton. His book describing it was simply entitled "South". He advertised in the London Papers to recruit volunteers. "."
I liked the Schrödinger's cat joke ;)
I fell for the "-60 degrees Celsius is the same as -60 Centigrade" joke as well, I thought "no it doesn't". I assumed they said -60 degrees Celsius = -60 Fahrenheit, which it doesn't. -40C = -40F instead. But that's typical of Map Men.
Hi, The cross over point between Celsius and Fahrenheit is -40, what he said was -60 Celsius and -60 Centigrade which are the same.
Gal, North pole isn't a continent like Antartica. It is just a bunch of ice floating on water, it moves, melts and rgrows each year (less and less due to climate change making the Russian ports accessible most of the year, now...) The closest USA can get to the North pole on terra firma is Alaska; or Northern Canada if they can.
I remember a cruise in Norway with my mother when I was eight. I saw the sun not setting at midnight! A magical moment. My mother wanted us to watch it but she forgot to wake up, I did wake up and opened the shutter on the viewport of our cabin and watched for a few minutes before closing the shutter and returning to bed.
As for Antartica, if you can find it, I strongly encourage you to watch the movie Transantartica, it dates from the 80s or 90s but it is still a great experience, I watched it on VHS as a kid.
As for what the future holds. The end of the treaty being in 27 years and ice melting so much that resources will likely be easily accessible by then... especially those rare metals so useful in technology and power generation... I doubt that the treaty will be continued. What facilitated the great nations to not exploit it was the fact that it was difficult to access and difficult to live there and install the necessary logistics. If climate becomes more "agreeable", they might reconsider since it is easy ressources and not ressources at 5000 m down into the oceans...
The other terrain of dispute for ressources will be... SPACE, the Moon and asteroids in particular, when the tech is developped and in working order for a low enough price, that is, Antartica is much easier ans cheaper to access for now.
Antartica is so difficult to access and so remote to live on that scientists in human behaviour take those bases as an example for future space explorations. Working there is basically like working on the Moon, (less and less with all those tourists) but at least it used to be.
I like all Mapmen videos but among the best are the one on Cholera in England, France being smaller than thought or USSR making more accurate England maps than the British... Or the one on fake streets on maps. They are short, so watching all of them shouldn't take you so long.
Fun Fact: During the age of the Dinosaurs there was no ice at either pole and some species of dinosaur lived at the south pole despite the almost wholly dark winters.
Flights occur regularly from Christchurch (New Zealand) airport to resupply both the New Zealand and U.S. stations at McMurdo. U.S.A.F. Ski equipped Hercules, C-15's, R.N.Z.A.F. Hercules and 757's regularly fly there in the summer (southern hemisphere). During the eighties I can remember seeing Starlifters and Galaxy's on bases having come down in support. The International Antarctic centre at Cristchurch airport, located near one of the U.S. Antarctic program's building's, is worth a visit if you ever find yourself down our way.
The closest place people live to the North Pole is Svalbard Islands, Norway.
Svalbard is an unique place in the world much due to the Svalbard treaty (you should definitely read up on it) where the nations of the world recognise that Svalbard is Norwegian but in return all countries who has signed the treaty may have operations there, however its a demilitarised zone. Its also the only visa free place on earth which has led to an extraordinary diverse population consisting of 50 different nationalities all totaling 2417 people.
There's one purely Russian (USSR) called Barentsburg aswell.
Someone I used to work with volunteered on a trip to Antarctica a few years ago to help clean up waste at an abandoned station. On the way there, with the volunteers also crewing a few largish boats across the Drake Passage, there was a medical emergency and it wasn't possible to get back to land or get a helicopter to them and one of them died. I think they had some sort of sattelite internet connection and my work colleague was blogging on the journey. At first we were jealous but then, after reading about how hard the journey was and that somebody had died, we changed our minds and were glad we weren't there with him.
The south pole is on land (Antarctica). The north pole is in the Arctic Ocean, although permanently covered by ice, it can be visited by plane, traversing the Ice sheet by sledge (a BBC TV show drove there from Canada!) and the US Navy visited by smashing a nuclear submarine through the ice to set up a base for a week.
love the vids maybe you could watch. The British Crusade Against Slavery. its a real eye opener to how people have forgotten history
The Antarctic is a part of the British Empire, along with the sea, the sky, the moon, all the planets, and the universe, I'm sure that is the case.
Rule, Britannia!
Rule Germany!
We have a flag.
You just have to remember to bring a flag... otherwise, that doesn't count.
The rabbit is so cute.
There is an amazing video about Singing Revolution, how people in Baltic region peacefully protested for there independence and maniget to stand in 600km line, more then 2 million people where standing fot there fredom. :)
Countries can use there military in Antarctica in support of scientific endeavours, so the USAF provides transport aircraft and the British Royal Navy a ship, for example. Argentina, Chile and New Zealand also do this.
The South pole is on Antarctica which is a huge island under the ice and snow. The North pole is on an ice sheet floating on the ocean with islands and land masses within the Arctic Circle.
Meanwhile. Argentina have the longest standing permanent base at the Antartica, and supply it all the time,
People started carving up Antarctica in the first half of the 20th Century. And those silly things that happened in the second world war did in fact happen!
One of my favourites was that the UK government offered a prize for anyone who could build a Death Ray that could kill an animal at a thousand feet.
in the 1930's a scheme for a death ray to shoot down planes resulted in RADAR being invented.....
@@coling3957 Алексей Толстой сильно повлиял на мировые умы написав книгу "Гиперболоид инженера Гарина" в 1925 году.
Great review x
There has been one war in Antarctica, although not on the mainland. The 1982 Falklands War also included South Georgia and the South Shetland Islands.
In addition to this, there is also the Grand Duchy of Westarctica, a micronation that claims the unclaimed Marie Byrd Land. A micronation is basically when a private citizen decides to start their own country in their own backyard or to try and claim a disputed or unclaimed territory of the world. I recommend you do a video on them.
Have a look at map men's video about how most world maps are wrong. It's quite an eye opener.
Think that WWII list was correct. I heard that US hamburgers were renamed Liberty burgers, and a lot of other crazy things happened. The list appeared too small on my phone to read, so I can't comment on every fun fact on it.
Berwick-on-tweed is not a British joke! It's a small town on the border between Scotland and England which has changed hands frequently down the centuries. If it didn't like some legislation it would claim it was in the other administration. They often added the town name to the end of the list when international treaties were drawn up just to make sure. There was one incident when it was included in the declaration of a war, but missed off when the peace treaty was drawn up a few years later, so technically the town had been at war for about 70 years, when the error was noticed, and no one knew. I'll try and find which conflict it was. Not sure if the quirk has been legislated away, but it was a thing during the 19th and 20th c's
this was the real reason for the falklands war Falkland island is where the ship would be a key port for mining oil ships to use as a base loads of money
A few people have mentioned Berwick and it's unique place in UK history. There is a story (which may or not be entirely true) that the town of Berwick upon Tweed remained at war with Russia after the Crimean War until the 1960s. A separate peace treaty was signed... strange but probably true!
I still have nightmares about when Dr William Dyer of Miskatonic University had an expedition to Antarctica back in September of 1930
11:01 You're thinking McMurdo Station.
"military personnel and equipment may only be used for scientific research or any other peaceful purpose (such as delivering supplies) on the continent."
Also since it operates at an oil deficit I'm sure everyone else is fine with this because it means the US has to send oil somewhere that's not the mainland US for a change.
When Britain declared war upon Russia in the Crimean War it was done so on behalf of ‘Britain, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed and all British dominions’. When peace was later made, Berwick-upon-Tweed was not mentioned. Thus a state of war remained from 1854 until 1966, Russians having to live in constant fear for over one century as to what Berwick-upon-Tweed might do.
"I hope that spirit of cooperation persists indefinitely."
Oh, bless your heart, you sweet summer child...
I think it's pretty much up for grabs, so if you
want to homestead a few acres, go for it!
if you're standing right atop the South pole,
is EVERY direction north?
Waiting for the Battle of Antarctica.
yess more jay foreman
i knew a South African woman at work, who got fired for repeated absenteeism.. but then got a job with a British Antarctica "expedition" .. thanks to her degree in marine biology.. she was going off to study algae or something for 6 months down there.. presumably in some camp like the one in "THE THING" ....
Yes the US does have a base there, but as it mentions earlier in the video the US and USSR were exempt from the limitations put on other countries who already held claims in the Antarctic.
And as for why the North Pole isn’t explored or occupied like Antarctica is. The North Pole is simply a spot on a mass of ice in the North Atlantic. Whereas Antarctica is actually a continental land mass, ie it’s a continent in its own right that’s just covered in ice, and not just a floating mass of ice in the middle of the ocean...
This subject is actually becoming very real in the North as well; you have nations claiming ownership of the North Pole (despite the lack of proper landmass) for strategic reasons and potential resource claims. It is in this light that especially Russia, China and the USA are 'butting heads' in the region. Your former President suggested to buy Greenland (and by implication, also its people), a part of the kingdom where I live; this is of course because he is well aware that global warming is real and a lot of potential real estate is up for grabs when more and more ice melts. This didn't stop him from riding a political platform claiming that global warming is a hoax, a lie, a conspiracy. :)
7:15 I think the first three might be real, or partly so, but I'm not going to look it up and have my illusions shattered by boring old reality
11:03 Tourists can (or could in 2012) visit a Chilean naval base which houses the odd patrol boat, though that is on an island just off the continent (not truly a continent, but I'll wait for Map Men on that) so maybe, perhaps, speculating, the treaty doesn't quite apply due to not having a court to apply it. And "base" is being a little generous for a few buildings, half a dozen enlisted guys and couple of hundred non-enlisted penguins, but technically it is (or was) an active base.
You should check out TLDR News, they make amazing news videos about the world, us and uk. And I know you're intrested in the uk, which make it perfect because they makes in depth videos about the British Parliment.
Since the Arctic is a giant iceberg/ice-sheet, no one claims it. But, the real problem is that this ice-sheet moves, cracks, shifts, partially melts and then refreezes, so no permanent buildings can be built on it.
It’s too cold for me good video 👍
I think you were confused by their joke about -60 degrees celsius. However -40 celsius and -40 fahrenheit are the same.
Irony. That cool base (2:38) belongs to Brazil, a country that wasn't mentioned in the video nor any map. My country was totally ignored lol. :(
The top 10 list was 100% true
The North pole is water surrounded by land (yep, it freezes) the south pole is land surrounded by sea.
As far as I’m aware, the list of least important things from WW2 is correct, apart from the obviously silly entries like 6. and 8.
@Chris Travers Yeah, I’m pretty certain that’s true
The north south winter summer thing. Think of it as a see-saw ( teeter-totter in US?) One is up the other down, they get cold and dark when we are sunny and bright + vice versa.
North and South poles are opposite in several ways.
The south Pole is a continent surrounded by oceans, the north pole is an ocean surrounded by continents.
Antarctica is a land mass about 10,000ft high (it's a plateau) the arctic ocean is about 10,000ft deep.
There are military bases in the north because Russia and America/ Canada face each other across the frozen sea. It's more apparent when you look down on a globe. There is no obvious confrontation point in the antarctic. ( unless someone finds vast mineral wealth down there.) The treaty has kept it free of military development's too.
We call it a see-saw as well...or a teeter-totter.
Actually.... Hamburgers WERE in fact renamed into Liberty Steaks, Just as you renamed French Fries into FReedom Fries for a short period of time when you got mad that France didn't join in on the invasion of Iraq.
Berwick upon tweed is in the uk but it’s changed between Scotland and England so many times it’s sorta it’s own nation😅
They did say that the first people who arrived there arrived in 1911 so... 20th century not 19th
The craziest thing about Antarctica is that flat earthers deny it exists.
North Pole is in Canada that is true north and magnetic north and we govern it .
A terrible rumour that Handforth parish council have relocated their meetings down there...I would second that in a heartbeat, then what would I know I,m from Birkhenhead...brrr
7:12 actually no. 1, 2, 5 and 10 are true. Don't know about the others though.
1. The claim was called New Swabia. It's basically part of Norway at the time but since Germany defeated Norway, they claim New Swabia is part of Germany since Norway was part of Germany.
2. Argentina declared war on the Axis powers on March 27, 1945.
5. Yes, the US did change hamburgers to liberty steak because Hamburgers mean people from Hamburg which is a town in Germany. The US did this to Saurkraut during WW1 and changed it to liberty Cabbage.
10. Montgomery did had a dog named Rommel, for unknown reasons.
It was claimed by Norway, not Denmark. Amundsen wasn't a Dane.
@@untruelie2640 Oh, thanks. I'll edit it in.
McMurdo Station is not a military base. It is strictly for scientific purposes only. The same goes for the South Pole station. America does not claim any portion of Antarctica, but reserves the right to do so. Same goes for Russia.
Some of those things in that top ten list are true, and others could be are but added as a joke (like the vending machine being restocked at Pearl Harbour). Argentina was the last country to declare war against Germany in WW2 and did so in early 1945 (they declared war on Japan at the same time too)
The Liberty Steak / Sandwich is true too, although I think it was down to individual restaurant owners not government policy
And Montgomery did have a dog called Rommel
hahah i totally got surfshark. well played
Thank you for your time and effort in making another interesting video, allowing us to learn along with you. In answer to your question about the North pole, I believe that there is no solid land there. Whereas Antarctica is an island/continent, the Arctic is a frozen ocean. If the ice melts it is just water and nowhere to build on.
Schrodingers colony is genius...
At the risk or repeating an explanation, the Arctic is (usually) ice whereas the Antarctic is actually land.
No, no military bases there, though the logistics (transport, supply, communications, emergencies, etc.) of the scientific bases are handled by various countries militaries, and in many countries the scientists earn military service medals (including Americans- see the Antarctic Service Medal), so the distinction does start to get somewhat blurry - but you won’t find say tanks or artillery or missile silos there.
The South Pole sits on the land continent of Antarctica, the North Pole is just a sheet of frozen sea ice, no land until you reach Canada, Russia or Scandinavia
I believe the US military base is actually a weather station.
Yes all the bases are research stations as all Japanese whaling ships are research ships
Thanks
Santa already has a claim on the north pole.
The North pole is a frozen ocean, the south pole is a frozen continent. Maybe that's why it has more bases?
And the north pole was important to the US and the USSR during the cold war as far as i know.
Just ask Al Murray the pub landlord!
Celsius & Centegrade match Fahrenheit at -40°.
someone missed the temperature joke 😂
The difference between Antartica and the North Pole is that Antartica is a continent with land and moutains and valleys and stuff all under the ice, but the North Pole is just ice floating on the Arctic Sea... there's no land there. So if the ice melted it would be a very wet place indeed.