Earth's Lost Islands

if you've been watching my videos long enough you'll probably have a good idea of just how active the earth is nothing stays the same for long here and even the smallest changes and something like temperature can have drastic impacts all across the planet's surface of course over the last few hundred years much of the change the earth has been experiencing has been the direct result of man-made factors you know global warming carbon emissions greenhouse gases we've all heard this story before oh my god mia what do you want what what is it no come on i gotta come on mia let's go sit on my lap then come here just sit here yeah okay okay there we go but looking even further back over the past 300 000 years or roughly how long modern humans have been around we can see the earth's average temperature has varied significantly going through periodic sharp increases followed by more gradual dips back into the cold while these natural changes shouldn't be confused with the anthropogenic climate change we're witnessing today which is both far more rapid and far more severe at the very least the effects of changing temperatures were the same back then as they are now each of these peaks and troughs was accompanied by a subsequent rise and fall in the sea level temporarily revealing lands lying just marginally below the surface only to have them inevitably fall back under the water as soon as the trend reversed this cycle of ebbing and flowing means that we as a species have witnessed islands emerge from the ocean long enough for them to become homes for sizeable populations only to eventually become lost again generations later taking with them any and all relics we might have left behind sitting at times just inches beneath the water's surface these sunken lands serve not only as lessons on the geologic past but can also offer us glimpses into the world as our distant ancestors knew it and so today we're hunting down some of these lost islands to see what they can reveal about our own history okay so before i get started i just wanted to say that a while back i made a pretty similar video to this one called earth's lost continents where i looked at many of these strange and often ignored continental fragments sitting on the ocean floor the major difference between those and what we're talking about today is that most of the lost continents never actually rose above the ocean whereas now i'm specifically looking at places we know were in fact dry land at some point during human history now on that video the single comment i got more than any other was people upset that i left out doggerland a part of northern europe that as recently as 8 000 years ago stood above what's now the north sea but what all these people commenting didn't understand was that doggerland isn't an actual landmass in its own right but rather is simply a feature of the much larger eurasian continental shelf or in short it just didn't make any sense to talk about it in that video but this isn't earth's lost continents it's earth's lost islands so yes it's finally time to talk about doggerland checking back to this graph we'll see that 18 000 years ago global temperatures and by extension sea levels reached their most recent low consequently global ice sheets extended their furthest ushering in a period called the last glacial maximum at this time glaciers covered much of the northern hemisphere burying most of europe including joggerland under several miles of ice if you're curious about what the earth looked like at this time then guess what i made a whole other video on that already and so to see these lands actually exposed we need to fast forward to after temperatures started to rise again as the ice sheets began to recede in their wake the retreating glaciers deposited huge quantities of rocky material they had picked up along the way into what's called a moraine building an area of dogoland up above the rest into what's now called dogger bank what would have for a time appeared as a series of low hills in an otherwise flat landscape at the same time europe was receiving many of its first inhabitants who would have found this flat grassy area to be a more than suitable place to live where mammoths woolly rhinoceros lions and other grassland megaphone are roamed resembling an environment not too different from the savannas of africa they'd originated from but as glaciers continued to recede these flat low-lying lands were some of the first to become inundated with ocean water leaving only the local highlands of dog or bank intact by around 6000 bce trapping whatever people and animals had made their way here prior to this for a time these hills survived as a sizable island smack dab in the middle of the newly formed north sea a doomed land that would have shrank year by year as the earth continued to warm and ice continued to melt it's estimated this dogger island lasted until at least 5000 bce giving its inhabitants around a thousand years to develop an entire history culture religions maybe even languages all its own before finally vanishing beneath the waves of course it's hard to say what an island like this would have been like had it lasted into modern times and even harder to guess all the different ways it could have affected both european and world history but i'll be honest that's like half of the fun of looking at things like this the only problem is well i'm not really an expert at this sort of stuff and so i decided to ask for the opinion of somebody who is alternate history hub i guess let's just start with the first one uh oh i wanted to ask you first you're making your video on dogger land like the entire like claim right yeah so i uh i decided to just do uh doggerland that's like max extent and that seemed kind of the wackiest because one the british isles are no longer isles and it kind of connects uh what we would think of as britain france germany and scandinavia just kind of all together so doggerland would essentially be like a weird melting pot for a bunch of cultures that uh really would not interact uh that close by um so yeah that's why i chose doggerland it's like most max extent i forgot what uh what that would date it to um i think it's like you know eight thousand nine thousand years ago it's it's tough because doggerland was mostly covered by glaciers so like yeah you have to hit that time where the glaciers had receded enough for it to actually be exposed and also for it to still be around you know yeah this is one of the things that always happens with you know sort of an alternate geography type scenario is like how much is changed and how much do you uh keep and it kind of fundamentally changes so much that you almost have to uh kind of not think about it but also it's a an interesting way of thinking about how people and cultures interact less so of how doggerland exists but yeah uh i think one uh this is gonna sound weird but one fascinating thing i have about dowager land is the rivers if it continued to exist i mean this is you know this is an extension of europe essentially and so doggerland would not just simply be you know a bigger denmark or a bigger uh uk or whatever it would it would have whole alternate cultures that would mix and match along these river valleys that have essentially just you know not existed and so that that's something that i had to kind of think about all right what so let's change now to just the dogger island so dogger island i think is actually kind of funny and cute um i could imagine this easily being a region just you know kind of devastat not devastated it'd be transformed by the vikings in the medieval age uh i can't imagine this would have any previous settlers before the norsemen well you know what's interesting is you know because it was connected to the rest of doggerland you know before you know in the prehistory there were actually people who lived here you know when it was a real island you know there were actual people there so i you know i think there might have been i think there might have been like a whole other you know culture unique culture yeah indo-europeans only you know came in and changed you know the language structure and you know everything of europe but they might not have made it to this little island it is so isolated you know at least in regards to britain which is right next to france it's like this might have had its own you know its own unique thing going on by the time the vikings got around you know yeah you're completely right i that's the strangest thing about the ice age for me is that you don't really think about this in terms of people living there and completing you know land masses just completely disappearing as anatomically modern humans you know existed yeah yeah in my mind i i didn't even think about that i mean this would be kind of the largest example of what happened with the bretons or the welsh or uh you know any pre-indo-european group like you said uh but it'd be even you know to a greater extent because this is a region that i mean this is a relatively large island too that would have no interaction with the indo-european groups i mean it'd just be kind of a time capsule in a way yeah well you know until until until the viking i mean that would be kind of the i mean that's the biggest tragedy you know this would be something if this did exist we would uh if we would be having a conversation like this in the modern day we would just be talking about how the vikings kind of replaced these people or at least intermingled and yeah overtook them for sure took them but i mean if they were complete say they were completely isolated i mean that's the thing this it really depends on how much communication there would be with the outside would there be even boats that would come and interact with them i think there would be so i don't think we would see a native american type situation but it might be a smaller version of what we saw happen in england how you had a pre you know pre-germanic people uh get taken over by you know the vikings and then they got taken over by the anglos and they got taken over by the normans and so you could see this sort of similar situation that happened in britain happen on you know dogger country or whatever the people would would call it and with that i think i've said just about everything i've wanted to say about dogger bank so let's move on now while in recent years i feel like doggerland has become more and more common knowledge at least here in the geography corner of youtube i was surprised to find a very similar and yet far less known case when looking across the atlantic to the east coast of north america where we can see that the continental shelf extends much further out to sea than the actual coastline into a feature called the grand bank adding to the similarities much of this area was also covered by glaciers just a few thousand years ago because ice grows far more easily on land than in open water the continental shelf also represented the furthest extent glaciers could grow before crumbling off meaning it was here at the very edge of the shelf that the ice sheet deposited much of the rocky debris it had accumulated along its way to the coast this had the effect of building up several large moraines or hills all along the outskirts of the grand banks and down the scotian shelf that were revealed as dry land once the glaciers retreated around 9 000 years ago in total four big islands along with a collection of smaller islets decorated the american coastline for a time the biggest of these was this one located on the very edge of the grand banks because roughly the same amount of material was transported here as to the other islands but was distributed over a wider area this made this particular island larger but also flatter and lower than the others meaning that while it may have emerged some 9 000 years ago the grand bank island was already beneath the ocean by around 8 000 years ago yeah all right so let's look at these these four off the east coast of the us now uh these these are pretty interesting too i think you know each one it kind of has a different story i feel to it but i think there are two in particular that i think have a bit more interesting stories to tell yeah i think um there's one that i see right off of nova scotia that i can't imagine it would change too much it would just be one more interesting aspect yeah i think the two that you're talking about are definitely the the ones that are right out by the ocean somehow uh that's interesting so what's the story with uh with these two ranges all right so let me tell you like what i've been thinking of um like few years ago i did a video on who discovered america first or whatever and one story that i didn't get to include was the theory that there were basque fishermen who would travel to where this island or where the one on the all the way in the ocean used to be and they'd fish those those grounds because these are some of the some of the richest fishing grounds in like the whole world pretty much oh wow and and people just you know it's it's theorized people don't have proof or anything but it's it's thought that there were europeans fishing there before you know before anyone ever knew that america was there there's actually a funny story i forgot who it is now but some european explorer went over here to you know go exploring i guess and he found a fleet of basque fishing ships there already he just he was like you know what the hell like you guys already know about this area like i thought i was discovering it and they're just like no like there's tons of cod here man like that's that's how we sell it to you guys it's like it's like who cares about you know finding a new world and anything like that we just want fish yeah there's just there's so many fish here man oh no that's that's my theory on this you know this grand bank it's called the grand banks this grand bank island where you know if there was an island there and you know there were basque fishermen you know they probably would have set up shop they probably would have and this is like it's it's thought of that they were doing it or fishing here around 500 years before columbus you know which is just crazy to think about i mean i actually uh i mean god that's fascinating uh so this that could i mean that that could easily very much be i don't know if this would because the basque is a very low population i don't i can't imagine the basque would colonize this entire uh region but uh i could see you know you would have some basque villages and stuff that would like be set up they wouldn't even know that it's you know that far away or that close to a continent i mean really if this regents if this island still existed would uh you know even eric the red or any vikings like that have accidentally came across it and since it's a lot you know lower in in uh latitude then the areas they did discover would they think oh this is actually a an interesting region to colonize you know because it's not like well actually you know it sits because it's so much further out to sea it also sits much closer to the gulf stream which would have made it also like a warmer place you know if vikings found it they probably would have you know loved it and so would have anyone i mean i could imagine uh medieval people in some way viki most likely vikings or say basque or whatever yeah that i mean you could easily colonize this area and it would probably be very i mean the the type of fauna and stuff that might that would even live on this region would just be fast i mean because you know it's pr it's too far away from north america to really i would imagine have mammals but there could be so many weird bird like alternative bird species on the side oh you know what i just thought of wow because you said birds you know i made a video about the the great ark the great arc yeah yeah and you know there would have been no predators this could have been like their perfect like homeland oh my god oh god now i'm just okay you have to include this in the video or i'll include this or something i don't know i know we're not even this is even part of my video the national bird just have to be the greyhawk on the coat of arms you know coat of arms they survive just as as much as the kiwi is the new zealand and uh you know whatever yeah yeah we'll call it auckland that's what's called you know that's perfect yeah it's called awkward well it's funny because i wanted i was gonna say that because those other islands right off nova scotia are you know right off nova scotia i would call them like new pharaoh because of the pharaoh islands you know auckland that's perfect like aqua they're all coming together now they sound like they would fit right into canada too honestly you just show this map to somebody in the present day and just be like oh you've never been to auckland you've been in the new pharaoh islands and they'll just be so confused and they're because most people probably aren't spending their time looking at canada and the math like we are given its distance from the mainland as well as its rather short lifespan i'm pretty doubtful any sizable human populations ever made their way here and if they did were yet to find any evidence of it the same however can't be said about the second largest of these islands found all the way down here off the coast of cape cod what now forms the feature known as george's bank while its shape and size would have changed constantly after its first emergence given its proximity to the massachusetts coast a place that was well populated by this time i can't help but feel there's a good chance people were living here all the way up to its inevitable plunge into the ocean when exactly this happened however is a lot harder to determine than i initially thought i couldn't actually find any credible sources giving even an approximation of when the bank finally washed away although i did find a map from 1813. here we can clearly see george's bank labelled and if we look closer we'll find this little detail right here what was meant to represent a shoal or an area of exceedingly shallow water dangerous for ships to sail over this area is described as being very thick with sand containing stones as large as a hen's egg and even several parts of the shoal ground dries at low water with an offshore wind or in other words just a little more than 200 years ago there were still parts of this bank that could occasionally rise above the water that's why in satellite pictures like this one you can still make out george's bank as the water picks up the sand and silt from its surface alerting us to the island's presence while simultaneously helping to wash it away but all right you're the the one that's all the way in the corner you see it the the lower left-hand corner yeah is that that's by massachusetts yes that's why i think this is a lot more interesting oh so my thought is that like it kind of stands in the way of massachusetts so if there were you know when the pilgrims or whoever came over they would have ran into this island before getting to uh massachusetts they would have had to sail either around it or through it or they would have just found it and settled there instead of massachusetts you know i think this would be uh i could definitely see this being like a landing ground this would be like the if the british did come and first you know try to colonize north america they would probably try to take this island first settle this island and then use it almost like a staging ground to then go and supply other colonies across north america and so instead of having the 13 colonies you'd have you could have the 14 colonies at first you know say god say imagine there is like a united states you know united states revolution this could probably be the one colony that would actually get away and it wouldn't actually be a part of what we would think of as the united states because it is uh a hub for you know the british and fleets and stuff like that this could be something that the british could easily take and you know kind of quell any uh rebellion within the island and then use it to try to you know launch you know counter attacks against rebels during the whole revolution and that would just be either by its choice or uh i think it would probably be through its choice because its entire economy would probably rely on that trade between britain and america and being that we might have a labrador newfoundland situation where uh this would this area would be much more tied to britain ironically than with the rest of canada and it i mean god it could kind of culturally be even more of a blend between british and american than uh than we would even imagine if there okay if there's a place that the transatlantic accent would actually exist it would be here transatlantic there we go we have our name now it's trans we'll just or transatlantica or atlantica yeah what's maybe even crazier than that however is what we'll find if we look at the last two large islands left on the shelf's edge which together with a number of smaller islands formed a nice little archipelago across from nova scotia although they were both quite small this also meant much of the debris brought by glaciers was more concentrated here building these lands up higher than the others this explains why if we look at satellite images off the coast of nova scotia we'll actually find this little guy sable island the very last scrap of these ancient moraines to have survived both the rising sea and erosion from the waves long enough to make it into the modern day though if its size is any indication it won't be around for much longer in 1901 the canadian government planted over 80 000 trees on the island with hopes of combating the erosion that seemed to break down its banks a little more day by day but by 1927 only a single tree remained alive assuring that so too will this island one day wash away under the never-ending barrage of ocean water becoming only the last of many lost islands along america's eastern coast for our next lost island we need to look around the other side of the continent and enter the pacific ocean for the first time here on the west coast the shelf is far more narrow meaning there are few opportunities for offshore sandbanks but if we look closely we'll find eight small islands forming the isla del canal or the channel islands off the coast of southern california unlike the islands off the east coast glaciers never reached this far south leaving these islands fully exposed even at the height of the last glacial period in this state sea levels dropped by over 120 meters or more than 400 feet lower than they are now exposing a series of marine terraces around the four northern channel islands connecting them into a single landmass called santa rosa now i know what you're thinking if parts of this island still remain then can it really be considered lost and well my answer is yes if the island that once existed was special but lost what made it special after breaking up into smaller parts you see at this time not only was the earth's geography different but so was its biology thousands of years ago north america was home to a variety of megafauna that have since gone extinct and in case you were wondering yes i made a whole video about this as well which means we should all know the biggest of these north american megafauna was the colombian mammoth the largest animal to walk the continent since the dinosaurs growing to such a tremendous size however required a lot of food which in turn required vast areas of grasslands for grazing something that was plentiful here where rolling plains covered thousands of square miles but with lowered sea levels santa rosa sat only around five miles from the mainland making it possible for these behemoths to swim here where they would have found a far more food limited environment than the one they had left one that simply could not support such large animals of course as we all know life finds a way and so over the next approximately 30 000 years smaller and smaller mammoths were rewarded with greater levels of success helping to reduce competition and allowing them to persist and even thrive until a whole new species of pygmy mammoths endemic to only this island evolved compared to their 14 foot tall 20 thousand pound mainland brethren the six foot tall two thousand pound pygmy mammoths of santa rosse wouldn't have even reached up to their tails and would have looked more like newborn mammoths than full-grown members of a separate species standing about as tall as a regular human this phenomenon is called island dwarfism which oh yeah i've actually made quite a few videos on unfortunately just like their larger cousins these pygmy mammoths are no longer around today having gone extinct around 13 000 years ago now it's possible that as the glaciers started to retreat and sea levels rose again the breakup of santa frose into four smaller islands reduced the available grazing areas so much that the environment simply could no longer support the mammoths even at their reduced size but there's also another explanation you see something else that makes santa jose so interesting is that it's here that some of the oldest human fossils in all of the americas have been found with the oldest one the arlington springs man being dated around you guessed it 13 000 years the same time these pygmies disappeared considering the humans of the time were capable of hunting even full-sized mammoths finding an island of tiny mammoths must have been the most exciting day of these neolithic hunters lives and offers another explanation as to what could have caused them to go extinct especially when considering the species had already survived at least one other interglacial period before the arrival of humans that's about it for north america but don't worry there's plenty more of the pacific ocean to explore in fact being by far the biggest ocean on earth there are actually way too many submerged islands or sea mounts to talk about here and so we'll have to focus only on the most notable of these now i'll be honest i already covered most of the big underwater plateaus in the lost continents video but there was one that i didn't get a chance to talk about this one right here that currently supports the tuitu atolls despite covering an approximately 200 000 square kilometers only around 850 square kilometers or 0.4 percent of it is actual dry land and that's on a good day supporting over 80 atolls or scraps of land held barely above the water by the growth of corals around its base but 20 000 years ago with sea levels lower you guessed it much more would have emerged as dry land while this still wasn't enough to unite the entirety of tuimotu into a single landmass it did reveal not only a lost island but an entire lost archipelago the only problem is the earliest evidence of polynesian explorers reaching this area comes from at the most a thousand years ago long after global sea levels had already begun to rise again meaning that by the time the first people likely arrived on its shores this island chain had already been severely reduced in size but like i said earlier the floor of the pacific ocean is chock-full of seamounts many of which lie just below the surface and so looking further west we'll find two more loose archipelagos take form this time much closer to the mainland given their proximity to the asian coast the first polynesian explorers departing from taiwan likely would have reached these shores thousands of years earlier than those of tuamotu when far more of them were above the water and i want you to think about that for a second the polynesians were expert navigators if i had to bet they likely found all of these islands establishing colonies settling villages coming up with trade routes all completely unaware that one by one they would begin to disappear beneath the waves and it's any wonder why the common thread in the story of polynesians was that they were always leaving their islands in search of new ones now i guess it's possible that these people were leaving the comfort of their tropical island paradises to sail out into the unknown time and time again likely dying by the thousands all because they believed there might be more lands out there or hear me out islands have been disappearing in the pacific for the entirety of polynesian history continuously driving those who settled here off their lands forced to sail out in hopes of finding another home if you ask me i think it's far more likely that this was the true incentive behind the polynesian exploration efforts what's really crazy is that i couldn't find any information on archaeological expeditions to most of these lost islands meaning we can't really know for sure when or where settlements were made though if true then there's likely tons of artifacts sitting atop these seamounts just waiting to be discovered but okay if you think that's cool let me show you something else that i found while looking around the pacific the salas similar to the hawaiian islands these were formed as the plate they sit on moved over a weak volcanic hot spot producing a series of failed islands all in a row despite featuring over 110 seamounts only two of these actually breach above the water today forming the island of rapa nui otherwise known as easter island and salazi gomes a far smaller scrap of rock too puny to support much more than a few ferns and passing sea birds back when sea levels were lower however we can see many more peaks on this ridge would have risen above the surface forming a line from tuamotu strait to south america now considering the earliest estimates for human presence on rapa nui place arrival at around 300 ce with the most accepted date being not until 1200 ce it's likely the polynesians never got to witness this island chain but the earliest settlements along the west coast of south america occurred much earlier between six to eight thousand years ago when far more of these would have been exposed while these early americans likely weren't as expert seafarers as the later polynesians would become well they wouldn't have needed to be experiments like those conducted by thor heyerdahl on his con tiki expedition proved that even using only primitive materials and techniques a raft could be fashioned that when set out from early population centers like peru the currents and winds could take it as far as the tuamotu islands knowing this i can only assume reaching these salacian islands from the american coast was not only possible but probably even easier once here each of these islands could have served as a literal stepping stone to the next potentially leading ancient americans all the way to rapa nui and beyond thousands of years before the polynesians of course any evidence of this would likely be buried and sunken hundreds of feet below the water and has yet to be discovered though the reason behind this is simple these are lost islands ones that very few even within the scientific community are aware of and i seriously think i might be the first person to realize that these were ever even above the water in the past in turn this lack of awareness has left these lost islands drastically understudied despite the amount of interest rapa nui receives and so without launching new expeditions and excavations we might never get answers on if and when people found these islands before they sank but it's only by knowing about them in the first place that we can even ask questions like this and i think that's what makes seeking out sunken islands so fascinating to me because really who knows what future exploration might reveal lost and forgotten atop these sea mounts just waiting to be found okay and finally it's time for us to move on from the pacific to the indian ocean though i'll be honest i again already cover the most notable lost lands here in the lost continents video but there's one in particular that i didn't really get a chance to elaborate on as much as i would have liked to so let's take another look at the continental fragment known as the masquerine plateau today the only parts of this shelf not submerged are these seychelles up here and mauritius all the way down here it's in between these two islands however where the bulk of the landmass lies broken into a number of separate banks at least two of these the saya de malia bank and the nazareth bank sit high enough to have been at least partially emergent during the last glacial maximum these would have formed their own separate islands likely even larger than those that remained dry today and along with a massively expanded seychelles stood as a substantial mid-ocean archipelago with parts of these banks currently sitting only 8 meters deep it's estimated that their final peaks became submerged as recently as 6 000 years ago despite this considering the earliest inhabitants of nearby madagascar came to the island from australasia only about 2000 years ago this leads me to believe that no humans ever managed to reach these lands before they sank which means i don't really have a reason to bring them up but i couldn't help but think of some other forms of life that might have made their way here call me speculative biology hub specifically not that long ago yes i made a video this time about the dodos that made the nearby island of mauritius home here the plentiful supply of food and lack of any large predators allowed dodos to evolve much larger than their pigeon ancestors this trend is called island gigantism and also resulted in the rodriguez solitaire the reyonyon ibis and even the tremendous elephant bird of madagascar all within the same general area knowing this we can only assume a similar evolutionary path was taken by whatever birds found their way to these islands as well potentially producing their very own unique species of giant birds um i think i mean the what you know i see here what i see here is i see like a circle i see this very interesting region that could be its own like cultural sphere uh its own trade network because i i i can tell you you're probably gonna say talk about how madagascar are settled by not africans but by southeast asia oh absolutely yeah absolutely so these southeast asians would already have settled you know seiki say six what's it called seychelles yes sorry so these southeast asians would have already settled seychelles and cargatos and rodriguez and stuff like that and obviously they have different names but uh i mean this would be a place where it'd be a seafaring people that would mostly trade with each other but then madagascar would kind of be the outer regions of this cultural area uh and honestly i don't think the people would ever give up their seafaring nature i mean because if they if they crossed all the way from the indian ocean into madagascar it would be almost like a an indian ocean version of polynesians yeah a smaller version of that but i mean we're talking a that'd be a very fascinating uh alternate culture to kind of imagine um as any island nation would and and then each uh i mean these islands are big enough okay so basically that difference from mauritius to seychelles would be from uh nor would be from maine to southern georgia yeah this is uh so this this would be even if they are culturally similar and they would trade which i could imagine you know polynesian style but each island would be its own unique culture viewing itself as its own nation um i mean it would be uh definitely i mean oh the europeans yeah that's something i didn't think i was so fascinated on the people themselves i didn't think about colonialism uh yeah i don't know neither did most people yeah yeah it was very unexpected but yeah i think once the europeans would come uh this would be probably immediately settled by at least the dutch uh but this would be very this would be the stopping ground uh going under the cape of good hope and stopping off in these islands probably the portuguese too right like probably the honestly these could these would probably be some wild islands these would be i mean you'd i could imagine poor amarante that could be like the the freaking vegas you would have you'd have traders you'd have you could even have like a mix of the even higher i mean this could you have somalia like only a little bit further this would be the caribbean of of east africa and it would just be it would be crazy you'd have pirates you'd have traitors you'd have portuguese and dutch ships with the biggest targets on them back but it would also be an arrest area where they could trade and you know socialize and stuff like that and it'd kind of just be this crazy crazy time during the the colonialism i would tell you that well because it'd be like this would already be an area that i could imagine having this own you know thousand years of civilization in a way yeah this would be something that they would have not not only trading amongst each other but they would be trading with east africa i mean this transformed oh there would be you know there would be arab traders there would be arab traders this would be god this pl this place would be bopping that's what i'm talking about uh this would be just the strangest blend of it would most likely already be uh it'd be muslim already but um god i could imagine that would it would definitely be a a strange area once the europeans came and colonized it i'm trying to think of who colonized madagascar the french the french but the french want it uh i don't imagine the french would the french would not have uh this would be either portuguese or dutch because that would be the main people coming under and trading with uh with the indies in fact this would probably be the most lucrative this would be the golden gem of the portuguese empire this would be the absolute thing that they would want to protect more than anything uh because they would just trade through you know they would already have control of a lot of west africa or at least have bases on west africa and then they would trade under south uh south africa and then this would be the most important place to protect because then they could project power into india and trade with india so whoever i mean this would be the center of so many alternate like 16th and 18th century wars can be insane uh this would be i mean this would be something that uh you know would make the caribbean look like nothing all the wars all the piracy of the caribbean's it would look like nothing compared to this and they'd all have their own big birds too it would be you know and they'd all have their own they have some really nice fossils i'll tell you that though as is the case with most of these little to no archaeological work has been conducted on these banks thanks to how difficult these areas can be to access leaving the specifics of their peculiar flora and fauna up to our imaginations for the time being but at the very least we know they wouldn't have looked like anywhere else on earth in fact the same can really be said about all of the islands we've looked at today but by hunting these places down we get one step closer to understanding the role lost islands have played in our own history which yeah now i have a whole video on too hey everyone thanks for watching special thanks to cody from alternate history hub for coming on and giving his thoughts on some of these if you want to know how joggerland might have affected history make sure to check out his video the link will be somewhere on screen if you haven't already also make sure to check out my video on earth's lost continents also i'm still trying to make it to a million subscribers so if you feel like this video earned it you know what to do of course if you'd like to see more videos like this you can help support the channel through my patreon and trust me i know there are tons of other islands i could have mentioned so if you know of any good ones that i could put into a follow-up video be sure to tell me about it in the comments lastly uh like the video you know it helps and i'll see you next time thanks

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Length: 42min 55sec (2575 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 28 2022