Discover Åland Islands: Europe's Best-kept Secret Natural Wonder? 74 Interesting Facts

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  • Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2024

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  • @oh2mp
    @oh2mp Год назад +29

    I was trying to find most of the mistakes.
    0:27 that is most likely from Lapland. At least 1000 kilometers away.
    1:10 that is nor Vårdö in Åland, that is Vardø in norhteastern Norway. Over 1200 km away. The other islands before that shot are most likely from Åland but not those places as the text and narration says.
    3:12-3:18 WHAT is that? The Alps? Definitely not from Finland at all.
    3:19 That is Gira waterfalls in India.
    3:30 That's Barnhouse settlement in Orkney, Scotland.
    4:34 That cave is in Kirkkonummi, southern Finland. Not in Åland.
    5:25 Probably from Norway. At least definitely not Åland.
    5:40 again footage at least 1000 kilometers away.
    5:51 Not all. They can have vanity plates too. And that not "A", it's Å pronounced like "A" in English word "all".
    6:53 Flamingos? What the heck? That photo is from India and flamingos don't exist in northern Europe.
    7:42 Swedish, not Russian.
    About at 8 minutes I gave up.

    • @kittealand
      @kittealand Год назад +2

      Well to be honest, you do find flamingos outside peoples homes but they denote something very completely different! :D

    • @darcyperkins7041
      @darcyperkins7041 11 месяцев назад

      While you are technically correct (I'll take your word for it), you miss the point: these are not meant to be taken as photos of the islands; they're just stock filler photos. I will bet you the producers knew they aren't photos of the Åland Islands.

    • @perberge
      @perberge 9 месяцев назад

      Åland, like Finland was then under Russia so that Mariehamn was founded by Tsar Aleksander named the town after his wife Maria that is true. Else the whole video are full of fail and so totaly lame I gave it a tumb down

    • @perberge
      @perberge 9 месяцев назад

      @@kittealand 🤣🤣🤣

    • @knrdvmmlbkkn
      @knrdvmmlbkkn 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@darcyperkins7041"you miss the (...) stock filler photos."
      There ought to be more than enough *relevant* photographies to choose from!

  • @anttikettunen1553
    @anttikettunen1553 Год назад +14

    When you don't know the facts, you shouldn't invent ones.
    For instance the original inhabitants of Åland, i.e. Ahvenanmaa in Finnish, were not the same as contemporary Sámi people.
    Members of the Neolithic Comb Ceramic culture started settling the archipelago some 7000 years ago
    after the islands had begun to re-emerge from the Baltic Sea having been pushed down by the weight of the continental ice sheet of Weichselian glaciation.
    Two Neolithic cultures met on the archipelago.
    They were the Comb Ceramic culture and the later Pit-Comb Ware culture, which spread from the west.
    The word ahva belongs to the proto Finnic language spoken around the Northern end Eastern reaches of the Baltic Sea more than 2000 years ago.
    Both modern Finnish and Estonian languages have the word ahven for the fish Perca fluviatilis.
    Finnish has also the word ahava for march wind - very useful for the production of dry fish.
    Since the waters around Åland have been always rich in fish, it's easy to see where the name of the archipelago originates.
    Actually it's the Finnish name Ahvenanmaa, which derives from the word ahva.
    Christianity came to Åland by the year 1000 C.E.
    What comes to the pictures used in this video, some of them are not from Åland.
    For instance there are no fjells nor mountains and there's no taiga forest on Åland.

  • @johneklund-dowling5205
    @johneklund-dowling5205 Год назад +17

    There are so many errors in the video.

  • @captainmzungu
    @captainmzungu Год назад +8

    So many errors in this video that it is embarrassing to watch. And please learn to pronounce the name first, it's not Aland the name is Åland, pronounced like O in Oh!

  • @all-about-europe
    @all-about-europe  Год назад

    👇👇👇 Check out these other videos:
    Discover Greenland: Frozen Island with the Most Disgusting Food in the World? ruclips.net/video/Fok8klS27sA/видео.html
    Discover Finland: World’s Actual Happiest Country?! ruclips.net/video/pvPQ39hbMSE/видео.html

    • @nine5sicc
      @nine5sicc 9 месяцев назад

      i love Greenland food so thats an opinion not a fact

  • @davegoldspink5354
    @davegoldspink5354 Год назад +5

    What an absolutely beautiful place. One of those places that if you visited you’d never want to leave.

    • @perberge
      @perberge 9 месяцев назад +1

      Iw been there twice, like last summer 😉

    • @knrdvmmlbkkn
      @knrdvmmlbkkn 7 месяцев назад +1

      "What an absolutely beautiful place."
      It sure is! My second homeland. I keep wanting to go back... except when I'm there, in which case I tend to want to go back to my first homeland. A bit impractical.

  • @Johan-sb9ds
    @Johan-sb9ds Год назад +2

    The Åland islands are very beautiful, the nature are stunning and it feels peaceful.
    If you never been there i recomand a visit during the warmer months of the year.
    You will probably fall in love just as i have done, ive been there many times and will return.

  • @Sjoblomen
    @Sjoblomen 4 месяца назад

    I live here :D this video is 100% correct and love the pictures from Åland

  • @lilithsmith1290
    @lilithsmith1290 Год назад +1

    It is beautiful! Remind me of old Main Street USA.

  • @JamesOfEarth
    @JamesOfEarth Год назад +2

    Seems like a great place to kayak/hike. Anyone done that?

    • @all-about-europe
      @all-about-europe  Год назад +1

      I haven't visited Aland yet but it is known to be good for hiking indeed!

  • @mikaelhedqvist3876
    @mikaelhedqvist3876 Год назад +2

    Strange moose/elk in that picture....

  • @danubebleu.9430
    @danubebleu.9430 Год назад +2

    Such a beautiful country
    And happy people.

  • @atnfn
    @atnfn Год назад +4

    3:15, there is no way that's from Åland. Lol. Norway maybe... I donno.

  • @bhavnam1000
    @bhavnam1000 Год назад +1

    Very interesting.

  • @stephenpoessl5464
    @stephenpoessl5464 Год назад +3

    What a lovely place

  • @MrTimodon
    @MrTimodon Год назад +1

    Viking Line and Tallink, but what about Finnlines? And there is more companys who go there as well!

  • @kastelholm
    @kastelholm 2 месяца назад

    those mountains beginning at 3:13 are not in Åland, not even in Finland

  • @Alsayid
    @Alsayid 7 месяцев назад

    I would love ti visit this place. I bet it is expensive, though.

  • @hrafnatyr9794
    @hrafnatyr9794 Год назад +1

    One species of poisonous snake: common European viper, length 2/3 - 1 yard, not very poisonous and also very shy.
    Dangerous animals: Eurasian lynx - extremeny shy, extreme hearing and eyesight, you’ll never see them. European Elk - don’t go near a female with calves!!!
    Fish: No sharks in the Baltic Sea.
    Mosquitos: YES!!!

    • @all-about-europe
      @all-about-europe  Год назад

      Thanks for sharing! Are you native?

    • @hrafnatyr9794
      @hrafnatyr9794 Год назад

      Nope, but friends libve there - so frequent visitor. Åland flora and fauna also don”t differ very much from neighboring Sweden and Finland - except no bears or wolves.

  • @JamesOfEarth
    @JamesOfEarth Год назад +1

    Are there any bears, poisonous snakes/insects or other dangerous wildlife? Sharks? Guessing there a lot of mosquitoes?

    • @thereal_mikegnorp
      @thereal_mikegnorp Год назад

      In the Nordic countries, there are very few animals that are dangerous to humans. I haven't heard about bears in Åland, but moose kan be dangerous. There's one venomous snake. It's a viper, Vipera berus. But, very few people actually die getting bitten. Mosquitos, yes, for sure.

    • @MrGunnar69
      @MrGunnar69 Год назад

      There are a lot of killer squirrels on Åland. So be careful.

    • @teddare832
      @teddare832 Год назад

      the answer is simply no. Nothing to be worried about

  • @teddare832
    @teddare832 Год назад +4

    I am ålänning and this video 100% correct especially the saying "Ingen fara på taket" , I use it all the time haha

    • @all-about-europe
      @all-about-europe  Год назад

      Thank you!!

    • @twanabaiz9516
      @twanabaiz9516 Год назад

      Hi , is Aland Island having good summer or there nice hot beaches with distance of restaurant and cafes or pubs please ?

    • @teddare832
      @teddare832 Год назад

      @@twanabaiz9516 Yes, I recommend you to visit aland before any other place!

  • @srilankantravelingchef
    @srilankantravelingchef Год назад +1

  • @dajimmyhedman
    @dajimmyhedman Год назад +5

    You talk about elk and show deers?

    • @thereal_mikegnorp
      @thereal_mikegnorp Год назад

      ..and it's not elk that he's talking about. It's moose.

    • @MrGunnar69
      @MrGunnar69 Год назад

      ​@@thereal_mikegnorpNot in Europe.

    • @SkipKiplinger
      @SkipKiplinger Год назад

      details...😊

    • @thereal_mikegnorp
      @thereal_mikegnorp Год назад

      @@MrGunnar69 Moose är samma som älg. Elk är kronhjort..ish.

    • @MrGunnar69
      @MrGunnar69 Год назад

      @@thereal_mikegnorp Fortfarande inte i Europa. Googla european elk.

  • @knrdvmmlbkkn
    @knrdvmmlbkkn 7 месяцев назад +2

    The amount of misinformation is irritating.
    00:07-10, 01:28, 06:10-14, 11:43-45, 15:44-50 Where's that? I don't recognise the place. Extremely beautiful, but probably not in Åland.
    00:27 That doesn't look like anywhere in Åland.
    01:09 No, Föglö.
    01:10 That doesn't look like anywhere in Åland.
    01:33 I want that one.
    03:12-21 That doesn't look like anywhere in Åland.
    03:28-35 That doesn't look like anywhere in Åland.
    04:34 Where's that? I don't recognise the place. Probably not in Åland.
    05:23-26 That doesn't look like anywhere in Åland.
    05:40-44 That doesn't look like anywhere in Åland.
    05:50-54 Not A but Å. Some have personalised plates.
    06:54 Flamingos? They're not native to the country.
    09:09 That doesn't look like anywhere in Åland.
    09:19-29 That doesn't look like anywhere in Åland.
    09:31-41 The "daler" coins were deemed illegal when they attempted to issue it in 1991. It was never an official currency. The daler coins were in circulation but only exists as collector's items/souvenirs. The Finnish mark was the official currency of Åland until 1st July 2002, for a time coexisting with the euro (official currency from 1st Jan. 1999 but with coins and notes in use from 1st Jan. 2002).
    10:28 The prices are correspondingly higher as well.
    10:44 Horrible pronunciation. It's a hard g and silent t in "berget"; open o in "Godby".
    12:57 That is NOT Södragatan. It's the walk path between Norra Esplanadgatan and Storagatan (formerly Södra Esplanadgatan) (seen to the right), looking west.
    13:38 Tax-free sales on the ferries started long before that.
    14:27 Not from Åland.
    14:43-48 Where's that? I don't recognise the place. Probably not in Åland.
    15:21 Foreign? No, official/national!
    17:35 Then show us pictures from Haraldsby in Saltvik! That's Strandgatan (with Bussplan, formerly Ålandsplan) in Mariehamn, just outside the library. The police station showed is now torn down and replaced.
    18:53 I want that one (if the aforementioned one isn't available).

    • @TheLegocreatorman-hx3ws
      @TheLegocreatorman-hx3ws 5 месяцев назад

      Åland is not even close that beautiful at all. I lived there. It was horrible!!!!

  • @mechasam
    @mechasam 3 месяца назад +1

    Ah yes another video made with stock footage from random countries with an AI voice. Guys, just report/flag these to RUclips.

  • @andersnyberg1888
    @andersnyberg1888 10 месяцев назад

    at 8:49 in that vid.. it´s not an elk!!! Jeez...

  • @perberge
    @perberge 9 месяцев назад

    You spent 20 second talking about Kastlholm. You skipped mostly everything of its amazing and brutal history. Iw been more or less everwere you talk about and Kastlholm was of the most interesting Iw been att Åland. And not to forget Bomarsund Fortres wich you skiped totaly.

  • @alistairjensen7897
    @alistairjensen7897 Год назад +2

    Oh please... The sun shines roughly 2 weeks every year

  • @twanabaiz9516
    @twanabaiz9516 Год назад +1

    We Kurdish people has name for boys Aland but we not pronunciation as Olan as it’s (Aland)

  • @cinderellaandstepsisters
    @cinderellaandstepsisters Год назад +3

    Åland belongs to Finland.

  • @MrDannexk
    @MrDannexk Год назад

    Åland Islands was ́t never inhabited by the sammis.

    • @bombadombom
      @bombadombom Год назад

      No, why would it be? Sapmi lives in the north.

    • @MrDannexk
      @MrDannexk Год назад

      @@bombadombom Exactly my point, but "fact" nr 16: " The Aland Islands were originally inhabited by the Sapmi People" 4:06 - 4:15.

    • @bombadombom
      @bombadombom Год назад

      @@MrDannexk You're ignorant to the history of white people, in fact white people doesn't have a land of their own, they all spawned out of the devils portal and began to supress minorities. /s

  • @wallflower3723
    @wallflower3723 7 дней назад

    absolute slop video just using random videos/pictures from all over the world