Hi, this was surprisingly accurate for a 12min long video. I actually spent 13 months in Port-aux-Français a few years ago. I came as a network admin but I also had to maintain seismology and magnetism equipment. There is no longer any greenhouse nor sheep. It's now forbidden because it's a natural reserve. I had the chance to hike to a lot of different places over the eastern part to work mainly with birds, seals, cats and plants. There are a lot of isolated shelters made of bits and bobs across the island. Sometimes it's a 12 hours walking trip split in 2 days. There are no tracks so you have to use gps and maps a lot. Terrain is really hard to walk and the weather too. It's mainly rocks and swampy terrain. We were 40 during 10 months (we only had 3 boats this year) and you actually make new friends and family there. The environment is mind blowing but the social experience is by far what changed me the most. The tourist path can be a bit deceiving, there is a lot of wait, it's horribly expensive and you only stay 2/4 days on each islands. Cheers
@@ailleurd Hi, kind of. There was something like two families sent in 1912 to live there with sheeps. It was at a place called Port Couvreux. I don't think they all died but it didn't end well. I've heard that they once received visit from a ship and one of the wife left with one of the crew ^^. I actually visited the place, the main building is fully closed but you can still sleep in the "sheep house". The old cemetery with fallen wooden cross is quiet a scenery and tell you it's not a place to settle. To go there it's a two days walk from the base, you really feel at the end of the world there. We were capturing cats to evaluate the population there. We stayed 10 days in this little cabin, the 3 of us. Simple life there, no coms, no running water nor electricity. 4 beds and an old plywood table burnt by candles ahah.
@@kugul1683 I've lost 95% of my pictures due to hard disk failure. But I had the chance to recover the ones from Port-Jeanne-d'Arc where there was the "whale industry" and the ones from Port-Couvreux.
@@julm7744 Sheeps were located on a small island in the gulf, cats are all over the place. It would be quiet impossible to exterminate them from the main land. They do kill them now in certain location where cats eat baby Albatros tho. The debate was more like, why getting ride of the sheeps, they were eating the imported grass that grow on this island. Now no more sheep and this particular grass is blooming in the gulf. The "harm" by the sheep is already done. In the end it's mostly politic like usual :(
my granduncle was part of the first expedition to ever climb on mount ross, the highest point on the island at 1850m above sea level in 1975, it was the last remaining french mountain unexplored by humans
Fun fact: The little number of insect species living on those islands all have tiny, usless wings. It's thought that it's an adaptation to the insane average wind speeds, as normal winged insects would be blown out to sea and die.
Very interesting 🤔 what a strange adaptation. makes me think those wind speeds must be hard to live with, I wonder what standard a Kerguelen storm/hurricane/tornado must be like twice as bad as what the norm is
@@urgiduurrgghh5842 Yep there is a fly without wing which lives in cabbage, it's called Anatalanta Aptera go check it out ^^, the most wind we had was around 170km/h I wonder what was the max recorded. Antarctica stations has some crazy storm too !
adding this to my list of criminally underrated and well produced channels. keep on the grind, you'll make it for sure. edit [9/20/22]: this channel had like 700 subs or soemthing when i said this and now it has 23k wtf, deserved. good luck with your future content!
This comment caused me to subscribe before the video loaded. Maybe I shouldn’t take the opinion of random strangers on the Internet at face value… but it worked out in this case!
That was a great video btw, loved the intro and the “potentially unique environments you’ll get to smoke cigs in” it was well researched, idk how your trucking videos blew up so fast that’s awesome, but I wished you explained in your video between European and American trucks why there aren’t any real trucks with beds in Europe.
Ahaha the intro as a real french from France who is regurlarly eating big wheel of cheese was very funny. Very interesting video didn't know the history behind this piece of land. +1 sub
my brother is a scientist who will go to this island this winter for a 14 mouth mission. I'm very jealous, i think it will be the experience of a lifetime.
Being a kid that grew up on this island but always felt like an outsider (My parents are from Madrid and I don't speak Catalan), this was an outstandingly refreshing account for the history of the island. I love this place for its nature, history and cuisine, and although I love Balearic music and tourism is pretty much singlehandedly driving the economy of the island, I hope that its rich history is not forgotten. I walk through the Arabic water irrigation system of Ses Feixes on a daily basis, and it is kept in an outrageous state, full of trash and with overgrown vegetation. Videos like this are a massive help in educating the inhabitants of the island to appreciate and respect its rich history. I really appreciate your work.
I like how they went 100% on the naming conventions on the island, on google maps you can see they have a road 66, a lake of the fellowship of the ring, etc
There was an occupation by settlers with shepherds . They all asked to come back to La Réunion . They consider that it was like Féroé Islands , hence settled down there . Jean Paul Kaufman who had been a hostage in Lebanon visited them as a recovery travel after he was released and wrote a book about Kerguelen and his experience over there .
Did nobody else notice the hilariously sophomoric easter eggs on the airline tickets at 0:39? 😂 Also: the picture of John Nunn at 8:01 looks like it was drawn by Napoleon Dynamite 😅 Great video.
Thank you, c’est très bien, very good done in a few time. Kerguelen seem beautiful. ...I’m waiting for new video, which make me dream. Merci et à bientôt.
Well done! I can see why you say this took you a long time to put together. Anyway, trips for tourists have been on hold since the pandemic. One of the world's most expensive regularly-scheduled destination.
Isla de Hornos in Chile is also very expensive, and you can have the bad luck to not be able to set foot on this island due to harsh climate, making you spend 3k more dollars to try again.
@@nit11 no. he makes these videos in his "stu" for "private purposes" (as he says). he doesn't know I know about his videos, so I sneak them off of his thumb drive (he has one he wears on a necklace) while he sleeps. i'm not sure why he makes them 🤷
There is a doco on Capt Cook "The incredible true story of the World's Greatest Navigator and Cartographer" well worth a watch. He basically circumnavigated Antarctica twice in his life time as well as a bunch of other amazing stuff. Really enjoyed this one, I'd heard of those islands but knew nothing about them, cheers.
@@theplayer12312 it would require any sort of permanant settlers to go there in the first place, as it is its litteraly just a random big rock where nature scientist come to jerk of isolated without going all the way to antartica ^^
Other FYI : Kerguelen is actually a Briton name, from the westernmost region of France, also called Brittany (Bretagne in french) where I live btw. So this is not a french name but Celtic name, and it is funny to see such an old and forgotten piece of the history still being here in middle of the Indian ocean.
I really like this video, it is indeed very interesting. I say that being a French /New-Caledonian, and I was surprised that the main island of Les Îles Kerguelen has the same name as our main island :)
Magnifique mais il serait temps d'y installer en plus des militaires et scientifiques de façon permanente des citoyens, des Bretons par exemple, capables de résister au froid et aux vents, installer des éoliennes, des ruches, y élever des moutons, planter des arbres...
No one notices the continent it's pretty much like zealandia there's also another example of this in the Falklands in out in the Indian Ocean where Madagascar
Such a packed video of information in 12 mins fabulous to watch. I've arrived here through a channel on YT called Thomas Festler Disclosure tonight! ? Anyone that's visited these islands seen a UFO or a uap or a uso (unidentified submerged object?) at all? 🙏👀Up the chanel they talk science all the time it's great
The weather is to shit according to some scientists that lives there The Doctor make a video conference with some High quality Doctors in France and that is how they deal with these problems
when doing comparisons like the minnesota one at 4:57, think about including a european example again that is more familiar to us. i just highly doubt that many americans find a geography video about france interesting
I DO Wish Americans would speak more slowly and, more importantly, cultivate a more convincing French accent. This was excruciating! Especially when the narrator rounds things off by mispronouncing "quay". It's a key, just like in Key West etc.
Hi, this was surprisingly accurate for a 12min long video. I actually spent 13 months in Port-aux-Français a few years ago. I came as a network admin but I also had to maintain seismology and magnetism equipment. There is no longer any greenhouse nor sheep. It's now forbidden because it's a natural reserve. I had the chance to hike to a lot of different places over the eastern part to work mainly with birds, seals, cats and plants. There are a lot of isolated shelters made of bits and bobs across the island. Sometimes it's a 12 hours walking trip split in 2 days. There are no tracks so you have to use gps and maps a lot. Terrain is really hard to walk and the weather too. It's mainly rocks and swampy terrain. We were 40 during 10 months (we only had 3 boats this year) and you actually make new friends and family there. The environment is mind blowing but the social experience is by far what changed me the most. The tourist path can be a bit deceiving, there is a lot of wait, it's horribly expensive and you only stay 2/4 days on each islands. Cheers
Merci, de partager vôtre extraordinaire expérience, I think there was a family who try to live on the island with sheeps, but all died ? Is it true ?
@@ailleurd Hi, kind of. There was something like two families sent in 1912 to live there with sheeps. It was at a place called Port Couvreux. I don't think they all died but it didn't end well. I've heard that they once received visit from a ship and one of the wife left with one of the crew ^^. I actually visited the place, the main building is fully closed but you can still sleep in the "sheep house". The old cemetery with fallen wooden cross is quiet a scenery and tell you it's not a place to settle. To go there it's a two days walk from the base, you really feel at the end of the world there. We were capturing cats to evaluate the population there. We stayed 10 days in this little cabin, the 3 of us. Simple life there, no coms, no running water nor electricity. 4 beds and an old plywood table burnt by candles ahah.
Do you have some photos?
@@kugul1683 I've lost 95% of my pictures due to hard disk failure. But I had the chance to recover the ones from Port-Jeanne-d'Arc where there was the "whale industry" and the ones from Port-Couvreux.
@@julm7744 Sheeps were located on a small island in the gulf, cats are all over the place. It would be quiet impossible to exterminate them from the main land. They do kill them now in certain location where cats eat baby Albatros tho. The debate was more like, why getting ride of the sheeps, they were eating the imported grass that grow on this island. Now no more sheep and this particular grass is blooming in the gulf. The "harm" by the sheep is already done. In the end it's mostly politic like usual :(
my granduncle was part of the first expedition to ever climb on mount ross, the highest point on the island at 1850m above sea level in 1975, it was the last remaining french mountain unexplored by humans
Thats neat!
Fun fact: The little number of insect species living on those islands all have tiny, usless wings. It's thought that it's an adaptation to the insane average wind speeds, as normal winged insects would be blown out to sea and die.
That is an excellent fact, thanks!
Very interesting 🤔 what a strange adaptation.
makes me think those wind speeds must be hard to live with, I wonder what standard a Kerguelen storm/hurricane/tornado must be like twice as bad as what the norm is
@@urgiduurrgghh5842 Yep there is a fly without wing which lives in cabbage, it's called Anatalanta Aptera go check it out ^^, the most wind we had was around 170km/h I wonder what was the max recorded. Antarctica stations has some crazy storm too !
adding this to my list of criminally underrated and well produced channels. keep on the grind, you'll make it for sure.
edit [9/20/22]: this channel had like 700 subs or soemthing when i said this and now it has 23k wtf, deserved. good luck with your future content!
Here before 100k
This comment caused me to subscribe before the video loaded. Maybe I shouldn’t take the opinion of random strangers on the Internet at face value… but it worked out in this case!
@@Smuffez same haha
That was a great video btw, loved the intro and the “potentially unique environments you’ll get to smoke cigs in” it was well researched, idk how your trucking videos blew up so fast that’s awesome, but I wished you explained in your video between European and American trucks why there aren’t any real trucks with beds in Europe.
You need a Faroe Islands video! It doesn’t matter if it’s trucking or just geography. As long as it’s about the Faroe islands, i’m interested!
Ahaha the intro as a real french from France who is regurlarly eating big wheel of cheese was very funny. Very interesting video didn't know the history behind this piece of land. +1 sub
my brother is a scientist who will go to this island this winter for a 14 mouth mission. I'm very jealous, i think it will be the experience of a lifetime.
Awesome! I just found this place cruising google earth. It looks very intriguing.
How was it for him?
When you said wind, the first thought in my Wyoming brain said "Ill be the judge of that". then avarage 68mph year round "yup thats wind"
How do you not have more views/subscribers?! This is so high quality!!!
Being a kid that grew up on this island but always felt like an outsider (My parents are from Madrid and I don't speak Catalan), this was an outstandingly refreshing account for the history of the island. I love this place for its nature, history and cuisine, and although I love Balearic music and tourism is pretty much singlehandedly driving the economy of the island, I hope that its rich history is not forgotten. I walk through the Arabic water irrigation system of Ses Feixes on a daily basis, and it is kept in an outrageous state, full of trash and with overgrown vegetation. Videos like this are a massive help in educating the inhabitants of the island to appreciate and respect its rich history. I really appreciate your work.
wrong island
I think youre on the wrong video pal
Did you mean to comment this on the Ibiza video?
5:42
_"NO, MY CABBAGES!"_
- Cabbage Merchant ("The King of Omashu")
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've always been curious about these islands. Thanks for the video! Your channel is criminally underrated
I like how they went 100% on the naming conventions on the island, on google maps you can see they have a road 66, a lake of the fellowship of the ring, etc
There was an occupation by settlers with shepherds . They all asked to come back to La Réunion . They consider that it was like Féroé Islands , hence settled down there .
Jean Paul Kaufman who had been a hostage in Lebanon visited them as a recovery travel after he was released and wrote a book about Kerguelen and his experience over there .
No idea who did the speech bubbles in French but they're pretty hilarious! gg fréro !
Did nobody else notice the hilariously sophomoric easter eggs on the airline tickets at 0:39? 😂
Also: the picture of John Nunn at 8:01 looks like it was drawn by Napoleon Dynamite 😅
Great video.
Lol I love your observations hahaha
Seems like a perfect opportunity to use windpower for the inhabitants
It was tried but it ended with a wind turbine on the ground, the winds are too violent there and not steady enough.
I saw these islands on Google maps and was very curios. You did a great job on the video and now I’m subscribed!
very underrated youtube channel
Thank you, c’est très bien, very good done in a few time. Kerguelen seem beautiful. ...I’m waiting for new video, which make me dream. Merci et à bientôt.
“I’d like for you to imagine, if you will, that you’re French”
Me, being British: *violently vomits*
Hahahahaha 👍🏻👍🏻🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭🤣
Violently vomits after finding out im british
@@cesruhf2605 That’ll be all the binge drinking, you need to build up your alcohol tolerance if you’re going to survive!
@@Jo3man96 my stomach exploding from all the alcohol
As a french person, this is an excellent video to watch and I admire the work you put in. You got one sub ^^
Well done! I can see why you say this took you a long time to put together. Anyway, trips for tourists have been on hold since the pandemic. One of the world's most expensive regularly-scheduled destination.
Isla de Hornos in Chile is also very expensive, and you can have the bad luck to not be able to set foot on this island due to harsh climate, making you spend 3k more dollars to try again.
Nice video, I look forward to more videos like this when you run out of countries to talk about trucks in.
You have earned a subscriber with such quality content!
What is this channel? Are these stolen videos
yes. i steal them from my uncle.
@@Yukon. I'm keeping my eye on you
Your uncle is a fantastic creator. Can I subscribe to his channel?
@@nit11 no. he makes these videos in his "stu" for "private purposes" (as he says). he doesn't know I know about his videos, so I sneak them off of his thumb drive (he has one he wears on a necklace) while he sleeps. i'm not sure why he makes them 🤷
@@Yukon. what program you use to make the animations and stuff? Is it just Adobe?
Wait, your channel is great! I'm subscribing right now!
incredibly underrated, good job
Absolutely brilliant video, keep up the great work!! :)
cmon, we all know that’s limberwisk
There is a doco on Capt Cook "The incredible true story of the World's Greatest Navigator and Cartographer" well worth a watch. He basically circumnavigated Antarctica twice in his life time as well as a bunch of other amazing stuff. Really enjoyed this one, I'd heard of those islands but knew nothing about them, cheers.
Great video - but the feral cats would be the descendants, not ancestors, of ship cats.
You said “De zeeuwse nachtegaal” really good!! 😄😄👍👍👍
Yeah he nailed the only dutch name in the video after missing almost all the french one, including the place he was talking about.
Cool stuff mate
Saint Paul Amsterdam, & the Corzet islands are volcanic in origin. Some of them are still active.
5:27 Descendants not ancestors.
If Kerguelen ever gets independence, their French accent will still be similar to the one back in Paris but with a little twist.
yea, like it'll be self-sustainable in the first place
@@theplayer12312 it would require any sort of permanant settlers to go there in the first place, as it is its litteraly just a random big rock where nature scientist come to jerk of isolated without going all the way to antartica ^^
Love the direction of this channel
Well, at least they have a hot spot.
Now that was some quality production..
I don't know but it seems like a cold and windy hell to live (or stay there longer periods) despite the interesting nature.
super interesting!! just found your channel, these videos are great. keep it up and you'll blow up in no time
FYI: It's actually pronounced "Kergellen" (with a hard g) and not "Kergoolen."
Other FYI : Kerguelen is actually a Briton name, from the westernmost region of France, also called Brittany (Bretagne in french) where I live btw. So this is not a french name but Celtic name, and it is funny to see such an old and forgotten piece of the history still being here in middle of the Indian ocean.
@@brewen_lmrch To me it is more like The Afro-Australian Indian Ocean. (AAIO).
Great content man, hope to see more like this!
Those ilands are under rated
Good video and good timing! I found out about Kerguelen just a few days ago when it was the location of the day on Worldle
that was dope :D
TIME TRAVELLING CATS ARE THE ANCESTORS...
This is such a Wes Anderson story
climbing mont ross actuallybhas been a live goal of mine for years now
I really like this video, it is indeed very interesting. I say that being a French /New-Caledonian, and I was surprised that the main island of Les Îles Kerguelen has the same name as our main island :)
Hi, fellow caledonian
@@313_B salut à toi monf
Thanks.
Clicked on this video wondering why these islands were using the Argentinian Football Asociation logo
WHERE ARE THE TRUCKS
7:00 I think I've seen that in a book before.
I am shocked at how good this video is because the view count and subscribers should be in the hundreds of thousands
Nice vid!
Yeah!
The island looks like a lobster.
nice
i feel like a fucking idiot today
WHY ARE ALL THE SHOPS IN NEW ZELALND, THAT GENERAL STORE IS SOME DAIRY, AND ITSINTERIOR IS A FARMERS
There is no way you only have about 2k. RUclips must’ve forgotten the 2 other 0s at the back
*14 k two weeks later
2 years and 3 months marooned in basically a different planet. Haha 😅
No wonder that other guy took his mistress.
Hey it's usefull Kergelen islands.
I am sure as a linguist that when you speak at such a frantic pace that little is absorbed or remembered !
basically the gers
And Wordle did this a couple days ago! Funny coincidence.
Magnifique mais il serait temps d'y installer en plus des militaires et scientifiques de façon permanente des citoyens, des Bretons par exemple, capables de résister au froid et aux vents, installer des éoliennes, des ruches, y élever des moutons, planter des arbres...
i can't live in a place without any trees
Did you mean with out any trees?
Hmm, wouldn't have guessed that it's pronounced Ker-goo-lin!
No one notices the continent it's pretty much like zealandia there's also another example of this in the Falklands in out in the Indian Ocean where Madagascar
Being french, I m imagining very hard behind even frenchier
40 ruggenti, i 50 sono urlanti non furiosi !
5:50 so there's an ocean in the middle of the antarctic? lol
Ohh, I know this place from the great and immortal Louis de Funés!
You've earn a new subscriber!
(And why would I want to kiss men on the lips during my vacation?)
the real question is why wouldn't you?
Basically French Falkland Islands
Forgot the Antarktic Not-Zs.
Looks like a fine place to build penitentiary buildings!
Such a packed video of information in 12 mins fabulous to watch.
I've arrived here through a channel on YT called Thomas Festler Disclosure tonight!
? Anyone that's visited these islands seen a UFO or a uap or a uso (unidentified submerged object?) at all? 🙏👀Up the chanel they talk science all the time it's great
0:02 - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OH NO OH NO OH NO YOU CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS
I'm entertained
i’m french so this is all very easy
"Imagine you're French" Already a reality 🤚
But why does he say that we have heary ears ???
why would they not build an airport ??? what if they need emergency evac ??? what if it is life and death ??? do they just have to wait for a boat
The weather is to shit according to some scientists that lives there
The Doctor make a video conference with some High quality Doctors in France and that is how they deal with these problems
Bag one ten happiness in French.
It's the closest thing America has to an antipodes!
Franze France Fransch Französisch
10:04 "Ou puis-je aller pour embrasser de hommes ?" X) why
Who would want to live there?. It would be a great place for maximum prison.
Just started this video...I'm English. I'm defiantly not French! lol
salut les anglophones, comment ça va ?
South Indian Ocean not Antarctic
Team Faze flag
This certainly would be hospitable for icelanders
Ice free antarctica ... well... if the earth melted yeah you could basically boat through the middle of what we regard as a solid continent.
when doing comparisons like the minnesota one at 4:57, think about including a european example again that is more familiar to us. i just highly doubt that many americans find a geography video about france interesting
Minisota 4.57 707mm (27.9in). That is less than the UK. but more than France. (Averages). So likly about the same as Paris, Northern France.
I DO Wish Americans would speak more slowly and, more importantly, cultivate a more convincing French accent. This was excruciating! Especially when the narrator rounds things off by mispronouncing "quay". It's a key, just like in Key West etc.