Earth's REAL Lost Continents

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  • Опубликовано: 25 окт 2020
  • Miles beneath the ocean there are numerous sunken lands just waiting to be discovered. How did these lost lands form, and what would they be like today if they had been just a little higher up?
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    www.loc.gov/resource/g3762n.c...
    agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
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    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic...
    pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/...
    upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
    www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
    hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-...
    www.researchgate.net/figure/M...
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    www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
    link.springer.com/chapter/10....

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  • @damooshroom4622
    @damooshroom4622 3 года назад +4368

    Listen Madagascar, it's not that India and Africa don't still love each other, they just need some time apart.

    • @Albert_Pecanio
      @Albert_Pecanio 3 года назад +55

      lol

    • @rajbagwe3732
      @rajbagwe3732 3 года назад +33

      Lol

    • @timmccarthy872
      @timmccarthy872 3 года назад +239

      India: * goes on a bender and crashes into Asia * "REBOUND BABY! WAAAH AFRICA TAKE ME BAAAACK"

    • @rajbagwe3732
      @rajbagwe3732 3 года назад +88

      Meanwhile, part of Africa still is too attached to Madagascar and looks like gonna split...

    • @krishangshah7384
      @krishangshah7384 3 года назад +96

      After more million years Madagascar might crash into India as revenge

  • @tlam3028
    @tlam3028 3 года назад +3719

    “What do the South Americans get? The Falklands?”
    The British: No

  • @psychicrenegade
    @psychicrenegade 2 года назад +176

    I would LOVE to see a video about the four supposed "lost" islands at the north pole! They are seen on maps from the 1500's and before...but then suddenly disappear from all maps made after 1600.

    • @sockatoo_
      @sockatoo_ Год назад +4

      OOO! I wanna research this now.

    • @sandraleiva1633
      @sandraleiva1633 Год назад

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @roseannegumabay9577
      @roseannegumabay9577 Год назад +1

      A6ax3 oHo bi b I don't know how to make a difference in the Russian Letters a6Br

    • @roseannegumabay9577
      @roseannegumabay9577 Год назад

      Wanna grab coffee ☕ or boba tea🧋?

    • @roseannegumabay9577
      @roseannegumabay9577 Год назад

      ιт'ѕ aє 6 He was a very special guest at the🇷🇺 letter to the public and private schools and colleges are going through the years of age or something like that in the morning and evening of the year and a half hour of the day of my favorite things in your own business and none of ur business

  • @briannawarren4174
    @briannawarren4174 2 года назад +61

    I like how when you talk about the potential anthropological implications of lost sets of islands. Especially the South American ones, it's so cool to think about!

  • @Ryan-zp4qo
    @Ryan-zp4qo 3 года назад +1863

    4:30: "Long Japan doesn't exist, it can't hurt you."
    *Yet...*

    • @siriusk1453
      @siriusk1453 3 года назад +183

      Japan bout to accelerate that land mass growth and block china off the pacific

    • @vin6665
      @vin6665 3 года назад +100

      *l O N G*

    • @llen156yearsago6
      @llen156yearsago6 2 года назад +63

      @@vin6665 l o n g l o n g m a a a a a a n

    • @zorronegro229
      @zorronegro229 2 года назад +15

      @@vin6665 best comment

    • @Number6ManUrinates
      @Number6ManUrinates 2 года назад +10

      @@llen156yearsago6 is that the commercial lol?

  • @jojoviviator9258
    @jojoviviator9258 3 года назад +3494

    Would have loved to see a world map in the end with all the "lost" landmasses raised from the ocean floor, just to see how that world would look like.

    • @nerobernardino88
      @nerobernardino88 3 года назад +211

      Would love that as a map for EUIV

    • @zorangesaft
      @zorangesaft 3 года назад +269

      Nevermind the assholes running the website Made that a payd feature

    • @melaniescarlet01
      @melaniescarlet01 3 года назад +34

      @@zorangesaft oof

    • @josephippolito3788
      @josephippolito3788 3 года назад +158

      @@zorangesaft I literally just spent 20 minutes going down a rabbit hole on this website. I wanted to see how high it would take for my house to be completely flooded. The answer is 85 meters.

    • @Doberdobax
      @Doberdobax 3 года назад +6

      @@nerobernardino88 bruh, u beat me to it

  • @mouradamraoui9166
    @mouradamraoui9166 2 года назад +86

    I would love to see a "part 2" of this video. With all these landmasses raised from the ocean floor, and then a re-calculation of the worldwide sea levels, followed by an analysis of how they would have changed the ocean currents. Followed by a discussion on how it would have altered the climate on the continents, and thus influence the flora and fauna on them.

    • @thatb1h855
      @thatb1h855 2 года назад +2

      wouldn’t that be too many variables to accurately predict anything?

    • @stephendoherty8291
      @stephendoherty8291 2 года назад +1

      Thought the same but you'd need time with a supercomputer to map how the ocean currents would change, its impact on current landmass climates and we barely know how to map the world climate at present.

    • @edmartin875
      @edmartin875 2 года назад +1

      @@stephendoherty8291 Yes it is difficult to meaningfully map a dynamic system. So many people think of climate as a static system. They cannot understand the climate has been changing since day 1 because to them all climatic changes are man's fault.

    • @stephendoherty8291
      @stephendoherty8291 2 года назад +1

      @@edmartin875 I would consider volcanic erruptions spewing million of tons of fine particles into the high atmosphere to not be mans fault and impact climate change. Again we cannot predict their impact on global weather even for ONE event with good estimate of ash discharge volume/type/location/time.

    • @lukestrawwalker
      @lukestrawwalker Год назад +1

      Good idea, but what you suggest would have MASSIVE research requirements and expertise to figure out, and take a LONG time. Another thing to consider is, the effect of lowered sea level on atmospheric pressure, as the Earth's atmosphere "floats" on the ocean and landmasses, and lowering the ocean level lowers the atmosphere to fill in the void. For instance, if Earth's oceans were mostly gone, most of the atmosphere would run down into the abyssal plains-- the continents would be miles higher and thus in MUCH thinner air, so most of the continents would be vast frozen windswept plateaus much like Tibet and the Himalayas are today. Meanwhile the greater depth of air in the abyssal plains would create adiabatic heating, and most of the abyssal plains would be scorchingly hot deserts, much like the land around the Dead Sea is today. Read the discoveries they've made about the Mediterranean Sea when it went dry several times in the past; it would have been up to 140-150 degrees F on the former seafloor, making it a lifeless desert, with temperatures perhaps soaring to 170 degrees in extreme conditions. There would have been a few salt marshes and lakes, fed by the runoff of rivers flowing into the Mediterranean basin off the continents of Africa and Europe, stabilized as the evaporation rates matched the inflow of water from these rivers (not least the Nile, among others). The salt layers miles thick on the floor of the Mediterranean speak to this past, as scientists believe that the Mediterranean was closed and open to the Atlantic ocean a number of times over the past few million years, periodically changing it from sea to desert.
      Later! OL J R :)

  • @ihave5eyes117
    @ihave5eyes117 2 года назад +20

    17:03 WOW YOU BROKE MY HEART IM PORTUGUESE

  • @mirizid9667
    @mirizid9667 3 года назад +2219

    Finally!
    OLD ZEALAND

    • @giovannirafael5351
      @giovannirafael5351 2 года назад +162

      Lol in case you're wondering Zealand is an island in Denmark and also a province in the Netherlands.

    • @andrewjohnwilliams6951
      @andrewjohnwilliams6951 2 года назад +54

      Nice to know that glad we finally get mentioned lol old Zealandia new Zealand up to New Caledonia wouldve been our whole continate

    • @THE_BagelMan
      @THE_BagelMan 2 года назад +42

      @@giovannirafael5351 the dutch province is Zeeland, not Zealand

    • @basedtvrk9125
      @basedtvrk9125 2 года назад +31

      @@THE_BagelMan Yet that's where New Zealand gets its name from

    • @THE_BagelMan
      @THE_BagelMan 2 года назад +2

      @@basedtvrk9125 I think New Zealand got its name from the danish island and not the dutch province

  • @mysterious7215
    @mysterious7215 3 года назад +3643

    This channel is the hidden diamond for geography lovers

  • @skatesandkicks5935
    @skatesandkicks5935 2 года назад +5

    Such a fantastic educational video. Your channel is one of the most informative I have come across. You explain difficult to grasp concepts in an easily digestible format. Thank you.

  • @wille5080
    @wille5080 2 года назад +21

    The submerged hawaiian island chain was always so interesting to me. It does an almost 90 degree turn to the north. Given that the mantle plume feeding the volcano is mostly stationary, this means something catastrophic must have happened to the pacific plate millions of years ago for it to stop moving one direction (north), and into a new direction (west). Some of my old professors said that the India plate crashing into the Asia plate did something to the plates around it. 🤷‍♂️

  • @NLTops
    @NLTops 3 года назад +761

    Atlas Pro: Lost landmasses.
    The Dutch: Leave it to us.

    • @fgkuv5232
      @fgkuv5232 3 года назад +47

      GEKOLONIZERD

    • @daddyleon
      @daddyleon 3 года назад +20

      @@fgkuv5232 Surely...ingepolderd?

    • @j_etherdrake_t8250
      @j_etherdrake_t8250 3 года назад +6

      Oh no, don't tell their planning a comeback now!

    • @NLTops
      @NLTops 3 года назад +10

      @@j_etherdrake_t8250 Don't worry, don't worry. Unless mermaids are real nobody lives on these sunken landmasses.

    • @adridaplague-boi9382
      @adridaplague-boi9382 3 года назад +8

      The dutch just start building a huge dam around madagascar

  • @Arizaniac
    @Arizaniac 3 года назад +2933

    I've never enjoyed geography class this much

    • @imbobb
      @imbobb 2 года назад +41

      And you never will

    • @cloakzgaming4022
      @cloakzgaming4022 2 года назад +7

      @@imbobb you don't understand what he meant its vice versa

    • @rekardodalisay7620
      @rekardodalisay7620 2 года назад +2

      Yes

    • @imbobb
      @imbobb 2 года назад +1

      @@cloakzgaming4022 I know exactly what they meant, that's why I replied

    • @TheDinofou
      @TheDinofou 2 года назад +11

      because it's not geography it's geology ^^

  • @Mezzotenor
    @Mezzotenor 2 года назад +2

    This was surprisingly informative, and it compelled me to become an Atlas Pro subscriber here AND a Patreon supporter. All best wishes!

  • @Obsidianen
    @Obsidianen 2 года назад +18

    Its sad that he didnt mention Doggerland, the landbridge between Great Britain, Europe and Scandinavia. Its most likely responsible, why Europe was so densely settled.

    • @kevting4512
      @kevting4512 2 года назад +2

      Probably because Doggerland isn't a continent but a connected land mass between Britain and Europe.

    • @Obsidianen
      @Obsidianen 2 года назад +3

      @@kevting4512 I know, but many of the things he named were also more island then continent.
      And it was around the size of Great Britain, which makes it pretty big.

  • @osmosis__
    @osmosis__ 3 года назад +701

    The real lost land masses were the friends we made along the way

    • @smartsthemiddlename6296
      @smartsthemiddlename6296 3 года назад +25

      Underrated comment

    • @peasant8246
      @peasant8246 3 года назад +83

      That's deep... almost as deep as these lost continents.

    • @ysnsmth
      @ysnsmth 3 года назад +18

      @@peasant8246 I would really appreciate it if you guys could stop this, it isn't punny

    • @Rndm9
      @Rndm9 3 года назад +16

      @@smartsthemiddlename6296 how can you call a comment underrated 10 mins after it was posted lmao

    • @matrak1262
      @matrak1262 3 года назад +5

      @@Rndm9 Indeed now it is the most rated comment

  • @platogkrone7161
    @platogkrone7161 3 года назад +800

    8:30
    "-meaning not only has the main body of the Hawaiian continent been lost, it's been erased off the face of the Earth, and there's no way for us to ever know what it was like."
    I just felt a strange sense of dread.

    • @harrydix
      @harrydix 3 года назад +38

      8:52

    • @chirelle.alanalooney8609
      @chirelle.alanalooney8609 3 года назад +24

      Hey, forget what it was like! WHERE DID IT GO????

    • @platogkrone7161
      @platogkrone7161 3 года назад +15

      @@harrydix I know what I linked.

    • @alexanderlee38
      @alexanderlee38 3 года назад +47

      Yeah, unknowable history gives me a feeling of dread as well

    • @bRyaN.K.B3nz
      @bRyaN.K.B3nz 2 года назад +4

      Because plate tectonics is probably not 100% accurate, the Hawaiian islands and surrounding underwater lands masses may have been above water at some point

  • @BASTYK14710
    @BASTYK14710 3 года назад +45

    11:37 That would've been a quite unique country. Roads pretty much in a straight line :)🤔🤔🤔

    • @TJ-wt9op
      @TJ-wt9op 2 года назад +1

      😭😂

    • @toriblackwood5920
      @toriblackwood5920 2 года назад +6

      Me a Chilean: well, yes, but actualy no.

    • @earlrahman_
      @earlrahman_ 2 года назад +2

      with the winds carrying from neighboring large bodies of water... might be washed off for every once in a while

    • @AramatiPaz
      @AramatiPaz 2 года назад

      Would be like the Red Line in One Piece

  • @txwaterbird6115
    @txwaterbird6115 Год назад

    I'm just now finding this channel and binging on most of the videos. This one is, by far, my favorite. Thank you!

  • @l.r9443
    @l.r9443 3 года назад +848

    Atlas Pro: Digging up lost landmasses
    Britain: Is for me?

  • @CarthagoMike
    @CarthagoMike 3 года назад +627

    South America has the Galapagos Islands, which are arguably equally as interesting as the British Isles from a geographic perspective.

    • @dorian4646
      @dorian4646 3 года назад +26

      Galapagos don't have any culture though, all they had is turtles and birds with weird beak 😂

    • @The-oh3vi
      @The-oh3vi 3 года назад +202

      @@dorian4646 same with the British isles

    • @suviram.1901
      @suviram.1901 3 года назад +54

      @@The-oh3vi daaaaamn😂😂

    • @nicolaspinto76
      @nicolaspinto76 3 года назад +21

      And Tierra del Fuego and Chiloe

    • @yin6287
      @yin6287 3 года назад +11

      @@The-oh3vi savage

  • @akabashiq1984
    @akabashiq1984 Год назад

    Thank you for an amazing elaboration, this was my second video to this channel and i am happy that i have came across it, i suspect that there will be many more amazing episodes filled with awakening knowledge, please continue as you made me more thirsty for knowledge.
    PS ; i am loving the geological science used here.

  • @adrianghandtchi1562
    @adrianghandtchi1562 3 года назад +14

    I would’ve never known about that, about the hotspot chains. Feels like I’m really understanding the movement of earth this way.

  • @robertwalker-smith2739
    @robertwalker-smith2739 3 года назад +438

    When I was a child, my family had an atlas that included a map of the world without oceans. There wasn't quite as much known about the abyssal depths back then, but it was still fascinating to see how the submerged planet had as much geography as the poky-out bits.

    • @matematicarka
      @matematicarka Год назад +43

      petition to call continents “poky-out bits” from now on

    • @Kitsune49320
      @Kitsune49320 Год назад +1

      lol

    • @lance3748
      @lance3748 11 месяцев назад +1

      Please define "poky-out'

    • @robertwalker-smith2739
      @robertwalker-smith2739 11 месяцев назад

      @@lance3748, anything currently above sea level.

    • @gillianbrookwell1678
      @gillianbrookwell1678 10 месяцев назад

      I've always loved geography since I was a small child.

  • @sabikikasuko6636
    @sabikikasuko6636 3 года назад +377

    "It's not like I care about thw Portuguese speaking world"
    Portuguese: why
    Brazilians: why
    "What does South America have? The Falklands?"
    Argentines: why
    British: why

  • @nipunikakedia9081
    @nipunikakedia9081 2 года назад

    One of the most interesting videos I have seen on RUclips. You need to put out more content like this and I will happily watch/consume it.

  • @NiKa-yi8wt
    @NiKa-yi8wt 2 года назад +2

    you've earned a new subscriber. I appreciate how enthusiastic you sounded. You deserve more likes and subs.

  • @mpetersen6
    @mpetersen6 3 года назад +2303

    Don't accidently delete this video. Because then it would be one of Earth's "Lost Contents" 🙄

  • @TheRedNaxelaYouTube
    @TheRedNaxelaYouTube 3 года назад +511

    "Those damn anglo-saxons"
    Alright mate

    • @cinamontoast2555
      @cinamontoast2555 3 года назад +54

      Modern version: "Those damm english-germans! "

    • @eardwulf785
      @eardwulf785 3 года назад +45

      ....he says speaking the Anglish language.

    • @cinamontoast2555
      @cinamontoast2555 3 года назад +1

      @@eardwulf785 Google translate:Na diabhal english-germans

    • @kerneywilliams632
      @kerneywilliams632 3 года назад +14

      More land for the Norse!

    • @syrialak101
      @syrialak101 3 года назад +7

      u wot m8

  • @simonburke8341
    @simonburke8341 2 года назад +1

    This documentary was so interesting to watch!!! Thank you for uploading this wonderful video!!

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds8581 2 года назад +11

    Your content is such a gem. Seriously, it gets me so hyped to learn about our planet and it's geography. The way you create and deliver makes me so curious about our home planet.

  • @GeoPerspective
    @GeoPerspective 3 года назад +431

    Atlas Pro, feels like one of the few channels that really keeps getting better and better!

  • @paddywhack9261
    @paddywhack9261 3 года назад +468

    You do great work, sir. As an old [76] lifelong geography lover, your videos are pure gems, and have opened the eyes and hearts of my godchildren, and their children, to the wonders of this world. Thank You!

    • @creepsxx
      @creepsxx 2 года назад +1

      He’s 76?

    • @nixxily2292
      @nixxily2292 2 года назад +23

      @@creepsxx im pretty sure the commenter meant that THEY were 76, not the atlas pro guy

    • @skateboardingjesus4006
      @skateboardingjesus4006 2 года назад +6

      That's a beautiful sentiment.

    • @great_channel
      @great_channel 2 года назад +1

      How do you know hes 76?

    • @nixxily2292
      @nixxily2292 2 года назад +3

      @@great_channel can u look at my comment

  • @samwilbur6155
    @samwilbur6155 2 года назад

    Super informative! My current project is focusing a lot on the absence of oceans and the land that lies their in. Very well made.

  • @vindicatino
    @vindicatino 2 года назад

    Incredible visualizations and awesome video, great job!

  • @chrisrus1965
    @chrisrus1965 3 года назад +860

    "I don't care about the Portuguese-speaking world."
    -- Atlas Pro guy

    • @marceloalmeida3850
      @marceloalmeida3850 3 года назад +23

      agurrás doeu onde nem sabia que poderia doer.

    • @javiervalenzuela8284
      @javiervalenzuela8284 3 года назад +11

      How did you manage to misquote? It's right there just play it back.

    • @vitor6245
      @vitor6245 3 года назад +9

      Que cusao

    • @mijaelromuloaroni8203
      @mijaelromuloaroni8203 3 года назад +7

      Call the brazilian influencers NOW¡ And Bolsonaro too...

    • @vitor6245
      @vitor6245 3 года назад +1

      @@mijaelromuloaroni8203 betoneira

  • @Xaelum
    @Xaelum 3 года назад +127

    16:46 "Whether these islands would have become part of Brazil" -> Proceeds to show Barcelona

    • @wtfisthis96
      @wtfisthis96 2 года назад +3

      Lmao exactly 💀💀

    • @heleavesthe99
      @heleavesthe99 2 года назад

      Take the meat and leave the bones...😌

    • @polkanietzsche5016
      @polkanietzsche5016 2 года назад

      I believe he thought that building was Cristo Redentor 😂

  • @cwxgames468
    @cwxgames468 2 года назад +33

    Would love to see how a map would look if all of these were above sea level

  • @nu-metalfan2654
    @nu-metalfan2654 2 года назад +25

    I always wondered why there is so much water and very little land in the Pacific Ocean, compared to the other Oceans. I wonder what happened in the Pacific

    • @WAMTAT
      @WAMTAT 9 месяцев назад

      Continental drift

    • @blastermonkey5780
      @blastermonkey5780 7 месяцев назад +3

      It is where the moon was gouged from when we were hit by another planetary body early in our history.

  • @fabrizzioantoniodominguezp349
    @fabrizzioantoniodominguezp349 3 года назад +133

    Atlas: what does South America get?
    South America: Duh...the Galapagos islands.

    • @fabrizzioantoniodominguezp349
      @fabrizzioantoniodominguezp349 3 года назад +20

      Yes, but it is considered part of South America, not polynesia or anything like that. In fact, almost all of the unique animal species living there originally came from the continent before evolving into what they are today, so the archipielago's natural environment has a much deeper relationship with south america than to any other of the pacific islands...
      Edit: Eh just clarify I'm no talking to myself, the other guy deleted his comment xD.

    • @depizixuri58
      @depizixuri58 3 года назад +2

      You mean Tierra del Fuego islands

    • @fabrizzioantoniodominguezp349
      @fabrizzioantoniodominguezp349 3 года назад +2

      Those too.

    • @AgentTasmania
      @AgentTasmania 3 года назад

      Tierra del Fuego?

  • @sirkimestry4524
    @sirkimestry4524 3 года назад +483

    NA has Carribean. Europe has the British Isles. Asia has Japan...
    Maritime S.E. Asia **ignored** :P

    • @spicyleaves8876
      @spicyleaves8876 3 года назад +8

      Its not a continent and their are many other peninsula's

    • @juicebox6124
      @juicebox6124 3 года назад +66

      @@spicyleaves8876 He was probably referring to the fact that Japan was chosen over the thousands of islands in Indonesia.

    • @thulyblu5486
      @thulyblu5486 3 года назад +48

      OK then: Maritime South East Asia has itself ;)

    • @rooryan
      @rooryan 3 года назад +14

      Also the fact that a lot of South America is part of the Caribbean :P

    • @TheRedNaxelaYouTube
      @TheRedNaxelaYouTube 3 года назад +8

      @@rooryan carribean is part of North America

  • @misterpolaris7077
    @misterpolaris7077 2 года назад +2

    An incomparably wonderful geography speech with pictures and texts!

  • @lance3748
    @lance3748 2 года назад +45

    I have sometimes wondered how human beings found their way to Hawaii thousands of years ago.
    - The closest land to Hawaii is Kiribati, over 1000 miles away. That would be a very very long and dangerous journey in dugouts. It would require a lot of paddling and carrying enough food and water for even a few people seems unlikely.
    - Even if they had larger, sailing vessels (unlikely) it seems like an unlikely journey. - And you would have to get a decent sized population there for healthy procreation. (It would require a lot of trips back and forth and without a good means of navigating you could easily miss the islands on the way back)
    - But a line of small islands from Asia, or a fairly close continent, would explain it.

    • @wilson3664
      @wilson3664 11 месяцев назад +2

      They had sailing catamarans, very big ones

    • @lance3748
      @lance3748 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@wilson3664 Maybe.
      And it's easy to imagine explorers accidentally finding some of these islands.
      But even with a capable ship how can you find your way back and forth to bring more people and supplies without a compass, charts, and other ways to navigate?
      Perhaps they did have some skills to navigate we don't know about but a strip of land to walk on, land that takes you all the way or most of the way, to Hawaii makes sense. It makes the trip far easier, much faster, less dangerous, and moving a sizable population more practical.

    • @mr.slimeyt
      @mr.slimeyt 10 месяцев назад +2

      you forgot ice age, maybe some small islands are still above where they can make a stop

    • @Hamilwhovian
      @Hamilwhovian 9 месяцев назад +3

      There was a big commercial and trading route between the Polynesian islands that went up to Hawaii and even the west coast of USA/Canada. Also, there are theories that some populations, during the last ice age, traveled from New Zealand and Australia to the coast of Chile and Peru. And, though a lot more recently, the vikings came to America from the north. Long ocean travel was hard, yes, but not impossible.

    • @infinityonsighh
      @infinityonsighh 8 месяцев назад +5

      @@lance3748 No, not maybe, they had catamarans- the ones we have today are modeled after theirs. Polynesian people were skilled navigators, we also know this to be fact. Viewing and understanding the stars as fixed celestial objects to be used as points of reference for terrestrial position to achieve navigation is not a feat limited to European colonizers. Ancient people were not ignorant to their surroundings. They were extremely intelligent and had the same capacity for rational thought and problem solving as you and I do. Do you think we would have survived if they had not?

  • @talkingtree8166
    @talkingtree8166 3 года назад +260

    I need an alt history with all of these lost landmasses.

    • @LuinTathren
      @LuinTathren 3 года назад +18

      Why not write one! I'd read it.

    • @priyanshgautam9971
      @priyanshgautam9971 3 года назад +13

      Yup pretty interesting 🤞🙃

    • @paemonyes8299
      @paemonyes8299 3 года назад +14

      imagine all the new ethnic groups and ancient civilisations... that’d be so cool

    • @stooge_mobile
      @stooge_mobile 3 года назад +12

      petition Whatifalthist to make one. Check out the channel.

    • @GeckoNova
      @GeckoNova 3 года назад +11

      I’d also include the submerged island chain on the scotia plate near the falklands and the two submerged islands south of Tasmania in the alternate history if I were you.

  • @Xelaria
    @Xelaria 3 года назад +633

    Atlas: what dose South America get, the falklands?
    People in the falklands: *why*

  • @psychicrenegade
    @psychicrenegade 2 года назад +1

    Amazing! This information is SO hard to find, so this video was great!

  • @randymartinez4971
    @randymartinez4971 Год назад

    Loved every single min of it man thank you for the knowledge

  • @henriquejambu
    @henriquejambu 3 года назад +980

    as a Brazilian I don’t know why it hurt when this dude said he didn’t care about the Portuguese speaking world😂

    • @richardsilva-spokane3436
      @richardsilva-spokane3436 3 года назад +10

      👍

    • @ninjapurpura1
      @ninjapurpura1 3 года назад +10

      Virgem

    • @TheBrazilRules
      @TheBrazilRules 3 года назад +44

      Not even you guys care. Portugal is one of the poorest countries in Western Europe, and Brazil is an all arround shitty place

    • @alexandrealencarm8772
      @alexandrealencarm8772 3 года назад +130

      @@TheBrazilRules I don't know, Brazil is large, have a lot of people, has the 6th largest economy but the politicians ruin everything. Still hurt when he said that.

    • @alexandrealencarm8772
      @alexandrealencarm8772 3 года назад +71

      @@TheBrazilRules So you're saying, don't care about poor people

  • @ekszentrik
    @ekszentrik 3 года назад +251

    Chile: we are the longest stretch of land.
    Ninety East: hold my fish.

    • @innosam123
      @innosam123 3 года назад +20

      Japan in a few million years: *Laughs*

    • @ygotsvlog3762
      @ygotsvlog3762 3 года назад

      @@innosam123 pangea hello theyre

    • @ygotsvlog3762
      @ygotsvlog3762 3 года назад

      @@innosam123 pangea:hello theyre

    • @ygotsvlog3762
      @ygotsvlog3762 3 года назад

      @liam dominic gaddi hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    • @cptsparklfingerz9210
      @cptsparklfingerz9210 3 года назад +1

      The single greatest geography comment ever. Made me laugh, thank you

  • @senderis
    @senderis 2 года назад

    Best channel for me now. No one explained me better about these formations in oceans. Would like to see them as a islands tho.

  • @conspiracybarbie
    @conspiracybarbie 2 года назад +5

    Omg I'm so damn excited about finding this Chanel! My inner geography neard is so happy lol

  • @SeeIHaveFriends
    @SeeIHaveFriends 3 года назад +310

    00:00 apparently New Zealand is lost since it ain’t be on any maps

  • @Remls
    @Remls 3 года назад +81

    9:10 "While this may in fact be the most boring ocean when it comes to islands ..."
    As someone from the Maldives, yeah that sounds about right lol

    • @Dragonite_Tom
      @Dragonite_Tom 3 года назад +14

      The Chagos and Lakshadweep feel left out

    • @cinamontoast2555
      @cinamontoast2555 3 года назад +8

      @@Dragonite_Tom And Andaman and Nicobar islands

    • @cinamontoast2555
      @cinamontoast2555 3 года назад +3

      @@Dragonite_Tom the peaks of the 90 degree thing

    • @cinamontoast2555
      @cinamontoast2555 3 года назад +1

      @@Dragonite_Tom form these islands

    • @juicebox6124
      @juicebox6124 3 года назад +3

      @@hanzchristiancastillo8887 They are very low lying, I think the highest peak on the islands is a hill on a golf course.

  • @philswede
    @philswede Год назад

    Greetings from Sweden.
    Keep up the great work with this channel.
    I love this topic!

  • @ryantruax4635
    @ryantruax4635 2 года назад +1

    This is awesome. I could watch this all day

  • @illuminoeye_gaming
    @illuminoeye_gaming 3 года назад +51

    So that's why there's all those weird lines on the ocean in Google Earth

  • @aniseedus
    @aniseedus 3 года назад +127

    Atlas Pro : Lost Landmasses
    British Empire : Mine
    AP : But they're not even above water
    BE : I said MINE

    • @JonPITBZN
      @JonPITBZN 3 года назад +10

      The British Empire: really not a fan of sunset.

    • @aniseedus
      @aniseedus 3 года назад +1

      @@JonPITBZN Haha yeah

    • @pepperpon3
      @pepperpon3 3 года назад +8

      The Dutch: how you're going to drain it?

    • @pagansutton845
      @pagansutton845 3 года назад

      Basically

    • @Rishi123456789
      @Rishi123456789 2 года назад +1

      To be honest, an underwater British Empire would be kino.

  • @alessaleeebon3628
    @alessaleeebon3628 2 года назад

    Your channel is such a dream. I love your uploads!

  • @kathywinkler9802
    @kathywinkler9802 Год назад

    Excellent explanation of my favorite topic!! ...... Thank-you for posting!!!

  • @SkaTuneNetwork
    @SkaTuneNetwork 3 года назад +1005

    Nobody:
    A similar youtuber in 100 years: today we’re going to be talking about Florida, one of the many lost land masses due to the ice caps melting

    • @mintyy2611
      @mintyy2611 3 года назад +79

      I think it's safe to say, America and future technologies will prevent the sinking of Florida. Florida houses too many cities and homes for it to just be forgotten and evacuated. However, it is fun to speculate what would it be like. I'm pretty sure if Florida were to sink, Miami would become the new "Atlantis" and would probably be some type of insane tourist diving spot.

    • @retro34
      @retro34 3 года назад +72

      @@mintyy2611 there'd not much they'll be able to do in order to prevent Florida from sinking. Other than slowing global warming back down all together, the only option I see for Florida's inevitable doom is to build a quay/wall or at the very least those drainage canals around the coast like they have in Asia for tsunamis. This of course would cost a lot of money, probably more money than the US government will care to spend. Best case scenario is they rehouse all those people into newly built cities further inland but most likely they'll be left to their own devices and the real estate prices will skyrocket, fucking over more and more people.

    • @mintyy2611
      @mintyy2611 3 года назад +24

      @@retro34 I severely doubt the government would let it come to that. Theirs just wayyyy to much investments put in place already for it all to go to waste. My theory is once they see global warming with their own two eyes affecting them directly, they will put all the money and resources to aiding the problem.

    • @joeytje50
      @joeytje50 3 года назад +11

      By that time we'll all have a hive mind, so instead of RUclips, it will be UsDataTransfer.

    • @withastone
      @withastone 3 года назад +35

      Florida, you say? Isn't there a way to speed that up?

  • @AwesomeSauce696969
    @AwesomeSauce696969 3 года назад +106

    17:50 Just casually revealing the location of Atlantis, what a madman

    • @gerbilmanjeremy
      @gerbilmanjeremy 2 года назад +1

      Good I wasn't the only one

    • @nahumontiveros1978
      @nahumontiveros1978 Год назад

      Aunque está fuera de contexto mi comentario quiero decir que África lo ví ala izquierda y no ala derecha ese mapa está mal neta pura mentira lo que nos dicen

  • @BeautekeLoentje2
    @BeautekeLoentje2 2 года назад

    See more far than the eyes can reach..indeed! Good work, thanks for sharing, great job.

  • @gaf407
    @gaf407 2 года назад +3

    Would love a video covering Jan Mayen, the Ægir ridge and the Thulean Plateau incorporating the an expanded version of the Faroes.
    As far as the Falklands, would have been cool to touch on the Scotia arc and the Falkland Plateau.

  • @44-aditimishra12
    @44-aditimishra12 3 года назад +152

    Last time I was early Doggerland still existed.

    • @imcarlosjr4898
      @imcarlosjr4898 3 года назад +15

      Rip Doggerland

    • @sortagoodish8491
      @sortagoodish8491 3 года назад +11

      @@imcarlosjr4898 and poor Beringia...

    • @bluebird3281
      @bluebird3281 3 года назад

      Nerd ; )

    • @aureusknighstar2195
      @aureusknighstar2195 3 года назад

      Nah dude I was here when Sahul still havent deformed into the Aussies

    • @fwdgd
      @fwdgd 3 года назад

      I was here when the sun just formed

  • @Vibinhasoueu
    @Vibinhasoueu 3 года назад +345

    Atlas: "Not because I care too much about the Portuguese speaking world... maybe, clearly I don't"
    Me -a Portuguese speaking person- : " Why? ;-; "

  • @vickilindberg6336
    @vickilindberg6336 Месяц назад

    Loved it! Would love for it to have been longer.

  • @danielfegley2735
    @danielfegley2735 Год назад +12

    Have you found Atlantis , it doesn't surprise me that there is a lot lost islands under the Pacific ocean I figured that was how the Polynesians got from the Philippines to Easter Island and then Peru

    • @AtlasRathbane4346
      @AtlasRathbane4346 Год назад

      Eye of Sahara, New Zealand fell and eye of Sahara rose after the giant flood.
      Alantis sunk into the sea but at the end reeds were visible Plato said...so it didn't stay in the sea...

  • @TheCowardRobertFord
    @TheCowardRobertFord 3 года назад +69

    "Not because I care too much about the Portuguese speaking world... clearly I don't" Well, good day to you too, sunshine.

    • @TheCowardRobertFord
      @TheCowardRobertFord 3 года назад +2

      @Micmackandstine WTF you're talking about?

    • @jazzjj7665
      @jazzjj7665 3 года назад

      @Micmackandstine no one cares

    • @joaovitorjungblut5225
      @joaovitorjungblut5225 Год назад

      What a weird emphasis he put... I feel like it was a joke and it could have been funny, but it sounded off lol

  • @bluey727
    @bluey727 3 года назад +1144

    diabeetus

    • @takashi.mizuiro
      @takashi.mizuiro 3 года назад +15

      I like blue lol

    • @M.Ghilas
      @M.Ghilas 3 года назад +53

      That is probably because you chose to watch this video but didn't chose to go to school an other person chose for you .

    • @LePedant
      @LePedant 3 года назад +1

      Well, racists are usually ignorant.

    • @smartsthemiddlename6296
      @smartsthemiddlename6296 3 года назад +2

      I agree

    • @donwald3436
      @donwald3436 3 года назад +20

      That's because you're paying attention.

  • @wilbur9416
    @wilbur9416 2 года назад +1

    Great video. I have often wondered what would have been out on Coastal shelves if the sea level where lower.

  • @o_LL_o
    @o_LL_o Год назад +1

    Didn't expect this to keep my attention for 20 minutes but man I want to see the rest of it

  • @ManjeetSingh-ko6tj
    @ManjeetSingh-ko6tj 3 года назад +74

    13:46
    India:- Don't worry buddy I'll be home soon
    Madagascar:- Take care and don't forget I'll be waiting for you.
    Legend has it that Madagascar is still waiting for India.

    • @thedoublessymbol
      @thedoublessymbol 3 года назад +12

      They come back together in 250 million years don't worry

    • @mirzaahmed6589
      @mirzaahmed6589 3 года назад +4

      Asia has better cigarettes.

    • @creativedesignation7880
      @creativedesignation7880 3 года назад +4

      Great, now I am slightly sad for a landmass.

    • @Rishi123456789
      @Rishi123456789 2 года назад +3

      India: Africa, you're cool and all, but I'm leaving you for Asia.
      Africa: Why?
      India: I want to create the world's biggest mountains.

    • @velocassini
      @velocassini Год назад

      India is like that dad that got to buy milk

  • @caf-rs9hp
    @caf-rs9hp 3 года назад +84

    12:00 underwater chile

  • @kashutosh9132
    @kashutosh9132 2 года назад

    I liked your video , learnt something new(in terms of concept also)
    Well made video

  • @stlouisix3
    @stlouisix3 9 месяцев назад

    This is a spectacularly fascinating topic!!!

  • @OADINC
    @OADINC 3 года назад +78

    I'm happily studying something totally diffrent (Electrical Engineering) but dammit every time you upload a video I start to doubt my choice a bit. It's just fascinating.

    • @LuinTathren
      @LuinTathren 3 года назад +8

      No reason you can't study both!

    • @oskha1815
      @oskha1815 3 года назад +3

      This is the reason why i choose geologycal science after high school. Geology is fascinating and interesting!

    • @shreekararaghavan1471
      @shreekararaghavan1471 3 года назад +1

      Damn same branch, even i love geology :)

    • @jasonreed7522
      @jasonreed7522 3 года назад +1

      on a scale from 1 to j how much do you love complex numbers? (fellow EE)

    • @OADINC
      @OADINC 3 года назад

      @@jasonreed7522 I'm sorry dude I only started a few months ago. I haven't got to that part yet, but after a quick Google it looks interesting

  • @palas2891
    @palas2891 3 года назад +28

    11:46 That moment when the earth writes an enormous underwater 'L'.

    • @l.r9443
      @l.r9443 3 года назад +1

      And then we have Italy; A reversed L on land.

    • @_Killkor
      @_Killkor 3 года назад +1

      Now we only need F and it's complete

    • @l.r9443
      @l.r9443 3 года назад +1

      @@_Killkor Republic of the Congo's shape (Not Democratic, the other one) is an upside-down F. So it's already complete.

    • @_Killkor
      @_Killkor 3 года назад +1

      @@l.r9443 The thing with land borders is they are abstract political barriers, and as they might follow certain geological features such as mountains, rivers or lakes, they often do not, and don't necessarily have to. So sadly, they don't really count, unlike more obvious and set in nature barriers, such as water-land barrier or elevation difference barrier.

  • @throne1797
    @throne1797 2 года назад

    A great presentation on a most interesting topic

  • @JSanders
    @JSanders Год назад

    Your videos are fascinating, reminds me of how much I thought I knew that I don't, Thank you!

  • @scottrobinson3956
    @scottrobinson3956 3 года назад +58

    Alternate History: what if all these land masses were above land?

    • @wtfbros5110
      @wtfbros5110 3 года назад +2

      better tell this to cody now

    • @christbenitez8797
      @christbenitez8797 3 года назад +4

      World war 2 will have extra steps?

    • @lepotato135
      @lepotato135 3 года назад +3

      More war...so much more war..

  • @Leugim010
    @Leugim010 3 года назад +67

    17:00 you don't really need to be rude about not caring about us lol
    Anyway before that you used stock footage of Barcelona (Tibidabo park) thinking it's south america footage. You're not the first youtuber I've seen making this mistake either

    • @kenthehobo
      @kenthehobo 3 года назад +8

      More people need to read your comment.

    • @Forlfir
      @Forlfir 3 года назад +4

      How can they not see that it's clearly Barcelona I have no idea

    • @aronbruno327
      @aronbruno327 3 года назад +8

      @@Forlfir they only see jesus statue and think "yeah that's south América".

    • @100famedeiros
      @100famedeiros 3 года назад +7

      I've seen this so many times on RUclips that I'm starting to believe that Rio de Janeiro actually looks like that.

    • @idromano
      @idromano 3 года назад +4

      I came here looking exactly for this comment. This stock footage YTbers are using may be the ones to blame.

  • @fmart3617
    @fmart3617 Год назад

    This video was great. I would have loved to see a final shot of the entire globe with all of those land masses exposed like they were real islands. Plus it would have been pretty cool to see exactly how the worlds currents would have changed and effected everything.

  • @shaunlanighan813
    @shaunlanighan813 3 года назад +1

    Excellent, especially the time-lapse tectonic animations. Pease can we have more of them?

  • @tomkom9762
    @tomkom9762 3 года назад +54

    South america have the Galapagos islands right?

    • @jgr7487
      @jgr7487 3 года назад +1

      it's already a Pacific island

  • @Gyhsjgj
    @Gyhsjgj 3 года назад +25

    This video: exists
    Britain: "What wasted potential!"

  • @topical351
    @topical351 2 года назад

    Plate tectonics fascinate me, so this video is amazing, make more videos like this!

  • @yaseminfitzgerald9400
    @yaseminfitzgerald9400 Месяц назад

    great video! love your work!

  • @GeoPerspective
    @GeoPerspective 3 года назад +38

    Atlas Pro, the main reason I have a channel!

    • @imladris9114
      @imladris9114 3 года назад +3

      Your videos are great!

    • @GeoPerspective
      @GeoPerspective 3 года назад +6

      @@imladris9114 hey, thanks for checking me out :)

    • @rajbagwe3732
      @rajbagwe3732 3 года назад +3

      I just checked out your channel, looks great!

  • @biexbr
    @biexbr 3 года назад +93

    Hey! Portugueses speakers has feelings too!

    • @fabrizzioantoniodominguezp349
      @fabrizzioantoniodominguezp349 3 года назад +18

      Yeah, that was a very unnecessary statement that he made...

    • @jakephreel
      @jakephreel 3 года назад +5

      "Don't Portuguese out on me. I'm try out new ethnic slurs, did it take?" -Roger from American dad

    • @javiervalenzuela8284
      @javiervalenzuela8284 3 года назад +2

      Yeah he's talking about portugal and what they did. Stop standing up for your colonizers.

    • @Go-go-super-guru
      @Go-go-super-guru 3 года назад +1

      So did the natives your ancestors slaughtered. What's your point?

    • @richardsilva-spokane3436
      @richardsilva-spokane3436 3 года назад

      👍

  • @isabellarhoslyn1579
    @isabellarhoslyn1579 Год назад

    that music/introduction, reminded me of the channel 1 and pbs shows i grew up with

  • @fullsunny2530
    @fullsunny2530 2 года назад

    Very informative video! Keep it up!

  • @robertkendall6660
    @robertkendall6660 3 года назад +6

    I’ve always enjoyed your work. I think this one is the best of the several dozen I’ve seen. I’ve been a life long map geek, but never thought about what might have been if sea level was a few hundred feet lower. Thank you for taking me on the journey.

  • @ianeons9278
    @ianeons9278 3 года назад +376

    Alternate Universe:
    Zealandia still exists, it was colonized by the British in the same numbers as the United States. Today, Zealandia is the world superpower with over 450 Million People.

    • @jackcarmody5118
      @jackcarmody5118 3 года назад +17

      No

    • @Arranus
      @Arranus 2 года назад +50

      Realistically Zealandia would probably be an superpower somewhere in the 21st centaury or 22nd and probaly have population around 220,000 million people this is due to oceania being the 2nd last continent to be discovered by europeans. (Last one being Antartica)

    • @fakename2336
      @fakename2336 2 года назад +33

      id expect the dutch to be the colonizers in this alternate universe because it would be a good trade route connected to new guinea, australia, and indonesia.

    • @randomdude4669
      @randomdude4669 2 года назад +9

      Why would you want a cold island on a fault line

    • @andrewjohnwilliams6951
      @andrewjohnwilliams6951 2 года назад +1

      @@Arranus yea then New Zealand would rule or Luke U said be a bigger super power n rich lol n more population n better off than Oz n rule the indi pacific n be bigger than the US bit we'd be a good country n help n support other countries

  • @Slovania
    @Slovania Год назад +12

    0:01 intro
    1:33 2nd intro
    1:53 zealandia
    2:57 little curve island
    3:03 oceanic crust
    3:17 nandis plate
    4:10 ring of fire
    5:04 Oceanic Plato
    5:12 Ontong Java
    5:28 Manihiki
    6:39 Hawaiian hotspot
    7:04 Mid-pacific
    7:21 Shatsky and hess
    8:20 Tamu Masir
    9:22 I CAN'T SPELL
    11:39 Ninety East
    11:56 Bengal Fan
    13:12 I CAN'T SPELL
    15:17 Walvis Ridge
    15:52 Rio Grande Rise(s)
    17:39 3 plates

  • @DaveDorenbergVeltman
    @DaveDorenbergVeltman 2 года назад

    I enjoyed watching your video. Although 20 min i didn't had a problem with it, i actually like a longer video than small bite sized ones. Thanks for your efforts making it. 👍

  • @tritoneko
    @tritoneko 3 года назад +67

    This video was so good and then just a random gash at Portuguese at 17:00 goodness

    • @luisgoncalosilva6194
      @luisgoncalosilva6194 2 года назад +11

      Ya that to be honest that was uncalled.

    • @ferengiprofiteer9145
      @ferengiprofiteer9145 2 года назад

      Hey, no press is bad press.
      Raise you hand if you every gave Portugal a thought before today.
      See what I'm saying?

    • @marcobento7952
      @marcobento7952 2 года назад +1

      @@ferengiprofiteer9145 Well, given the context I wouldn't mind that Portugal keep being under the radar.

    • @AramatiPaz
      @AramatiPaz 2 года назад +2

      @@ferengiprofiteer9145 As a Brazilian I think of Portugal who refer I'm thinking about geography or history.
      And others should too, since they basically invented globalization.

    • @ferengiprofiteer9145
      @ferengiprofiteer9145 2 года назад

      @@marcobento7952
      I get that. They don't seem to suffer many slings and arrows.

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um 3 года назад +110

    "In a single day and night of misfortune, the island of Atlantis disappeared into the depths of the sea."

    • @luciferangelica
      @luciferangelica 3 года назад

      oh yeah? where?

    • @ogrecum
      @ogrecum 3 года назад +2

      @@luciferangelica 17:49 here

    • @luciferangelica
      @luciferangelica 3 года назад

      @@ogrecum ok, that's one of at least four locations i've heard proposed, including santorini, the titan mountains and the bimini road

    • @tmac2744
      @tmac2744 3 года назад +9

      @@luciferangelica The Richat Structure seems to be gaining interest too.

    • @luciferangelica
      @luciferangelica 3 года назад

      @@tmac2744 oh yeah? i hadn't heard about that yet? where's that?

  • @urbnctrl
    @urbnctrl Год назад +25

    LOVING the content - btw what software do you use for this planet? It looks like Google Earth but with added functionality of editing the elements like removing sea levels on the map. Cheers! Would love to see a follow up video where we can look at how much of these sunken landmasses would be exposed right before the younger Dryas.

    • @danieljoseph7635
      @danieljoseph7635 Год назад +3

      It seems like Space engine, because in his other videos which have graphics of exoplanets and star, it looks similar to Spaceengine.

  • @user-di7we1cb3z
    @user-di7we1cb3z 2 года назад

    Thanks, for stant questions, Greatfull!