Examining The Most Unknown Canadian Island… Meighen Island
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Why is there a three-story building on this remote island? I do a deep dive on a random, mostly unknown, remote, uninhabited island of Nunavut, Canada called Meighen Island. This is part of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and was discovered in the early 1900s. I use Maps, Wikipedia, government websites, and other research articles to try to piece together what is going on at this island, and if there are any buildings there. This video is not an expedition to that point, although I would love to be able to visit this place. Let me know if you like this video format! I enjoy making this style of video.
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Image Credit: David Burgess NRCAN
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People want to talk about it but I'm hearing nunavut
Addicted to your videos. Itches a part in my brain that no one else seems to be doing
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underrated gem. please never stop making videos
^^^^
Thank you!!!!
literally addicted to this type of content! keep making these, they're truly amazing
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You should send David Burgess an email and see if he has more pictures for a followup he may even give you an on screen interview via zoom. Most scientists are flattered you are interested in their work. Can't hurt to reach out.
That's a great idea! I found his email so I'll send him an email
Hi geormargin, i discovered you just recently and basically binge watched all videos! Keep up the very interesting content! You deserve way more views and follows xd
Yayyy!!! Thank you!
I’ve got the feeling the algorithm is about to hit this guy. Excellent content.
this is a great video this is exactly the kinda stuff i look into when i find a random interesting place on google maps
Thank you!
This was fascinating, please do more videos like this in the future! I love finding small details in google maps and I'm so glad that I'm not the only one
Thanks! I will
I love your videos on the Canadian arctic! Please keep em coming 🙏
Thanks!!!
These videos are all so interesting! Do you want to cover Bjørnøya/Bear Island next? There's a weird hut at the following coordinates: 74.5013668123653, 19.10472260606955. It might be a good video idea!
theres another one at 74°29'09"N 19°02'23"E. im pretty sure theyre just scattered abandoned huts from sailors or something.
at 74°30'7.0"N 019°5'10.2"E there's a non-directional beacon for broadcasting radio frequencies for weather forecasts, the hut is likely something to support that effort like to power it or maybe a radio dish for it
@@andersonjett7933 Thanks for finding out!
Yeah Bear island is one that stuck out to me, it's all on its own way up there. Cool find!
According to XKCD, you're pointing at a single atom.
Im very happy I found this video, I love doing this kinda stuff but I normally dont go into as much depth as you. Also great editing and voiceover, I think ill watch all your videos now.
Thanks!!!!! I've been working hard on my editing skills
Watching from 5 minute old video, by the way, keep making these google earth history videos, these are great videos!
Thanks!!!
This is now my favorite channel
Heck yeah :)
Wow this is an incredible video. I only recently discovered your channel and subscribed and I have to say this has got to be one of the best geo channels on YT right now. I follow a lot of geography type channels and lately everything's getting so repetitive and like they copy each other. THIS is how you make geo videos. I legitimately did not know anything in this video and to watch your research unfold beat by beat... love it, I love it, no notes, keep going!
Thank you! I honestly try not to watch other geo RUclipsrs so I don’t morph into what everyone else does, I go to other niches to see what works. I appreciate it!!!!
Sticking with the Canadian theme. I think searching through Flaherty Island and the surrounding areas should be an interesting video, it's not covered in depth enough.
I discovered your channel about a week ago but I love the content. ❤
That’s awesome, there looks to be some sort of building on that tiny island too. Thanks!
Dude, I’ve been binging all your videos. These are great. Keep it up!
Thanks!!!
I like the research you do along with the exploring. It's always intriguing to learn new niche things in history.
Thanks! I love doing it
You're awesome dude! I don't spend as much time as i did when i was younger messing around on google maps but i have always been fascinated by random islands and corners of the world. That island you showed briefly at the beginning with all of the lakes looks awesome! You should look into that island in a video if you haven't already. Subscribed
Thanks! I appreciate it
This was an interesting concept. Would be a fun video if you could look for old cities or areas large scale combat took place in. Appreciate the time you took to make this Geo
Thanks! Yeah thats a good idea too
Loving these videos! Super interesting and your commentary is great
Thanks!!!!!
Can you cover some archipelagos with special coastlines that are less well known in tropical settings? Love ur vids
Yes, my next video is about a tropical island in the Pacific :)
Its crazy how many crazy islands there are
Great video! New subscriber here!
Thanks!
Love this channel. Thanks for the videos! This stuff is fascinating. So much of the world is basically unexplored and unknown, even if ithat's not technically true.
Another very cool video about a remote place! I really wonder if that weather station has emergency supplies and maybe a tent and whatnot. I mean what happens if the plane can't take off again due to sudden weather changes and they're stuck for a week?
That’s a good question! I would think so
I’d love to visit this island, Canada’s north is so interesting!
Same!
1 minute ago is CRAZY
Reviews on uninhabited places are AMAZING. There used to be a fake pizza place on one of these islands and the reviews were amazing. Alas, it was taken off the map...
I know!!! They are hilarious
yay another video!
heck yessss
Wow this is great! Very similar to my process when going down a google maps related research hole.
Thanks :)
i love these i hope one day you make them daily
Thanks! Right now I'm making them weekly, because each video takes me about 12 total hours to make. 4+ hours of research, 1 hour of filming, 5-6 hours of editing. But I hope to get more efficient
Very cool. Love this stuff
Appreciate it!
Videos are absolutely great and entertaining :)
Thanks :)
Interesting as always
Love seeing uninhabited islands
Yessss same
hey, could you perhaps investigate Kings island and the random unmarked settlement (64°57'41"N 168°04'16"W) please? it kinda interests me, and i wanna know if its abandoned or not.
That is interesting. I've actually been to Nome before and remember people talking about that island. Some people go over there to fish or camp, so maybe its old camping huts? That would make a good video though
would love to visit one of these places one day
Same
Love the content ❤️
Thank you!!!
Always been interested in the Canadian North since I was a kid, just wish the damn flights weren't so expensive
Same!
So do those of us who live here. We joke that once we pay for the flight to Edmonton/Winnipeg/Ottawa, everywhere else in the world is basically free.
I think you're in youtube's favoured algorithm. Good luck!
Hahah I think so too. Thanks!
Love your videos bro, they are super interesting esspecially these about far-north russian islands
Thanks!
This island is part of a northwestern island group called the Sverdrup Islands. They were actually claimed by Norway until 1930 but they gave them up to get sovereignty over Jan Mayen Island, east of Greenland and Bouvet Island near Antarctica.
0:19 wow, that ice-covered patch on Devon Island looks just like Antarctica!
love your videos
Thanks!
What fascinates me about these islands is that they have essentially been shattered and torn apart by being repeatedly eroded by the Laurentide ice sheet. Look at a reconstruction of North America from a couple million years ago and you'll see it was one contiguous land mass
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Hey Geomargin, I live year-round in Alert. If you want, I can ride my tamed polar bear across all of Ellesmere Island down to the Arctic Ocean where I will then hop on my tamed walrus who will bring me over to Meighen Island and I can snap some pics of the island for you. Great video man👍
Hahaha heck yeah. I'll take my polar bear named eric on a ride and come right up there
Could you do a video about Punuk island? Ive seen a few sources describing it as a place where ocean currents end up so its full of debris and bones
Woah that's cool, its so tiny and kinda blurry on maps. Maybe there is potential for a good video about there
I spent years obsessing over the arctic and arctic islands as a teen and had never heard of this one. The video title is accurate lol
how are you doing this?
It’s fun! And I sort of laid out my process in the video, I start with just looking at google maps, then I look at Wikipedia, then search about the island online and see what I can find
Try with google earth rather than google maps, the image data while really zoomed in seems to be way better.
Ok, ill try that
Where the ice is in the Middle of the island, you thought was buildings, could it be astroid/Meteor hits?🤨 Great video as always 🗿👍
Yeah, I really wish I could find pictures of the top of the ice cap
Very cool. Did you ever listen to that Dollop podcast on Macquarie Island?
Thanks! I haven't yet, but it's on my to do list
I was recently looking around on google earth and noticed a circular underwater depression in the Marquesas archipelago but i havent been able to find anything about what it actually is and if it isnt potentially one of the largest calderas. Could you mabye do a video on that?
Interesting, do you have coordinates of the location? I can't seem to find it
@Geomargin 8°25'30"S 140°08'41"W
Here you go. Though i dont know if it isnt just a coincidence because its about 100km wide
Can you make a video about the sanikluaq inuit owned land and why it has such a weird landscape. Edit: I found that the town of sanikluaq is the only inhabited town on the islands.
That looks like an interesting area. Ill look into it
3:25
Interstingly, the way more to the south positioned Prince Charles Island next to Baffin Island was not discovered until a few decades later (1932/1948) and was named after now King Charles III.
Oh interesting! That’s even later than Ushakov island
@ Prince Charles might also be one of the last living people to have a geographical feature named after him (save renamings).
Have you ever taken a look at Ilak Island? There is a crash-landed WWII plane visible along side what appear to be craters from when it was used for practice bombing runs.
Woah that could be a good one to do a video on. There are little holes on top of it too
Given there were people living on the northern coast of Greenland thousands of years ago (look up independence culture) this island was certainly visited long ago before Europeans, if not inhabited at some point.
Definitely possible. Just not any evidence on this specific island that I could find online.
It is unlikely to ever have been inhabited.The Independence I culture relied primarily on muskox, but Meighan Island has no muskox. The way people migrated into the region was along the east side of the archipelago, and sites get a lot rarer the further west you go up at the top, suggesting people really didn't spread that way very much. Further, given there's the remains of an ice cap, it's likely the majority of the island was covered with ice year-round a few thousand years ago, so there's be nothing there to be able to live on. Additionally, until very recently, it was perpetually surrounded by ice. The Pre-Dorset cultures didn't live on ocean ice, and the Thule had no reason to go there since the large marine mammals they hunted couldn't live there either (no places to come up to breathe).
you should do a Q&A for 10k
I've thought about that, maybe I'll make a community post for that
Go over more terrain that was shaped by glaciers. Long Island is a good choice, along with southern Patagonia in south America.
Good point
4:45 meteorite? ☄
omg i based here on one of those minecraft planet earth servers once
Woah thats cool
LMAO makes for a pretty sick BeReal😭
So, in Canada, the snow is flooding things? :D
Island was named by someone who wanted Megan but wanted to be "unique" with the spelling 😭
Hahaha literally
oh thats what that land at 80n, 100w is on my canadian map lol
1:37 mightve been from this coincidence but extremely unlikely
Bucket list item?
Yep
Whittier Alaska next
I love watching vids on that place
Perfect watch after pulling an all nighter
Hey, Do you know the Jan Mayen Island?
Heard of it, don't know a lot about it tho
34 seconds ago. HOW.
I hate that Google killed the Google Earth Community. You would have fit right in
Tragedeigh ahh name
Hahaha
I'm a Alien. When we came down from space this is where we landed.
Ahh you were the alien that abducted me
Are we sure Canada doesnt have more islands than Sweden ? Yes, I know its Sweden, but google maps makes me wonder how many islands haven't actually been counted in Canada 😊
Sweden had a lot of super tiny rock islands, but idk if I would count those
there weren’t many inuit historically up in the high Arctic. Canadian Gov’t transplanted inuit from much further south in the 50’s to bolster sovreignty- a bad plan.
That's terrible
rust maps be like
literally
do you do video suggestions?
Sure!
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i mean…is it really the most unknown? i feel like it wouldnt have a name if it is. cuz ive seen some that are like that.
Maybe not. But one of the most unknown
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Um, that’s not an “icecap”
The scientific articles I referenced called it an ice cap, so if you have a different idea, I would take it up with them haha
😂 Einstein the fool ? Nikola Tesla called him one.
Hahaha
WHY ARE THE ICECAPS LOWERING IN SIZE????
In summary: india
hell freezing over probably...caving in, and sinking the ice into it
I think it's because of global warming.
Climate change. Excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere causing a greenhouse effect, which traps heat in the atmosphere and increases the temperature.
Ikr… ever since they sold the business, Timmie’s hasn’t been the same😔
Isn't it MEGAN Island. Why? You cant see the G?? Good video, but you can Polish up your work. just my advice to help you improve :) Keep it up! I subscribe!
Haha no it’s not Megan, it’s Mee-en. Check the Wikipedia page for Arthur Meighen and or check any video online about Arthur Meighen and listen how they say his name. I did my due diligence on this pronunciation this time because I’ve been roasted in my previous videos. Heheh. But thank you for the advice, I do like to work to improve! Thanks for subscribing!
Hi
Hi!
Average Minecraft spawn
Yup
Has trump claimed it yet?
Maybe the Romans lived there ?😂
Hahahha