The Arctic Circle Is Losing A Country (All Arctic Countries)

hello I'm to camp welcome back so a second channel jewelry video this is M serious way to talk about drug free and the world and stuff and today Onis talk about the Arctic Circle because when the Arctic is brought in TV shows and movies and such it's usually just referred to very vaguely and generate without a fixed location is just like oh yeah it's a faraway place with cold stuff and you don't want to go there because it's so far away in cold and it's like the opposite of Antarctica but the truth is although it is generally cold in the Arctic and although it is generally quite far north the Arctic Circle is a precisely defined region and it's not what you might figure it's not defined by temperature it's not defined by degrees of latitude or being the opposite Antartica instead the way the Arctic Circle is defined is the point on earth where you've gone far enough north where you officially have a 24-hour day and a 24-hour night the Sun will rise for 24 hours in a rotor in the summer and it'll set for 24 hours in a row during the winter obviously in most places in the Arctic it sets for a lot longer and it rises for a lot longer depending on your season that is how you find where the Arctic Circle is which means it's actually changing every single year and in case you want to see what it looks like right now here is the Arctic Circle on a Makita stone map flatmap thorn you were used to on this map it's technically actually a rectangle because that's what the map does to the whole globe so if you actually prefer this map technically speaking it's the Arctic rectangle not the Arctic Circle however for today's video we're gonna be using the Arctic Circle just to keep things a bit simpler so yeah this is the Arctic Circle as you can see it's defined as being a circumference around the North Pole and yeah there are eight countries which have territory inside it right now there is Russia there is no way there is Finland Sweden Iceland Greenland which is Denmark but it's a non sovereign country within the Kingdom of Denmark so you can say Denmark we can say Greenland whichever one makes you happier then we've got Canada then magar Laska eight countries easy is that right and yeah the interesting thing about this though to me is like okay so there's an Arctic Circle and it's defined as being a circle only one use a globe which will use the rest this video what about the opposite of that if you go to the other side of the globe is it still the Arctic Circle or is there the Antarctic Circle because you might have something about the Antarctic Circle but it's a much less interesting thing to me because again this is the Arctic circus like all this countries there's cultures there's people's the Antarctic Circle looks like this it is literally a ring roughly drawn around Antarctica and yeah the interesting thing about this is at the ha Texaco is much colder than the Arctic Circle generally speaking which is already very cold which is why it pretty much nothing lives there especially no people so there's no cultures there's no histories and even today although some countries are allowed to claim their there are very few countries that actively enforce their claims and there are very few countries who expect to get any use from this in the next hundred 200 whatever years because Antarctica right now is pretty much unusable however the Arctic Circle which is again kind of like the opposite of Antarctica you don't realize when you look at a flat map but like the earth is very top-heavy which means there a lot of the places you live right now would be very cold on the opposite side the globe interesting kind of fact there but that means the lava the otic circle is habited by countries you know and love such as Russia Sweden Finland Norway Iceland Greenland Canada the USA etc fun fact I've been to all eh but let's talk about those 8 countries because they have a lot of interesting things in common however I should mention it's really seven countries we're talking about because the first country on its dive into is Iceland so Iceland is a country with many famous things about it although it's not very icy and it's sir you know it's a fun fact about Iceland but yeah basically although Iceland technically has some territory in the Arctic Circle like all of these other countries where they have a puppet Iceland has the tiniest part of the territory in the otic circle just their furthest North Island it's called grimsey is in the Arctic Circle and just this island right here grim sea is only about half in the Arctic Circle if you live on the SAP half the island where most the people do actually live then you actually have about 23 hours and 58 minutes of day in the summer and a 23 hour 58 minute night in the winter but that's not quite Arctic Circle right now the otic circle is about halfway up the island and because the Arctic Circle moves every single year if you cursed as to why that is by the way it's not usually it's like all global warming's coming to get you in this case it's nicely to do glove warming it's just a natural the earth tilts very slightly by about a degree change every 20,000 years and right now it's tilting in a way that moves the Arctic Circle north slightly by a few meters every single year so by about 2050 or so in about 30 years none of my son's territory will be covered by the Arctic Circle which means that there's going to be seven countries in the Arctic Circle so we mostly won't talk about Iceland today because I mean like literally it's like one island it's an interesting enough island they have about 80 people living there and they have a big interest in chess so at one point a random American chess grandmaster just decided to fund their own like crazy never went there himself he was just like let's give them a bunch of money and in his will he left even more money for them so they're all very grateful for that also they recently voted to merge with one of the larger cities nice land which is just the south here a key area I can't set correctly I'm sorry if you're Icelandic I love you really but yeah basically they decide to merge together which is an inch and little thing so that now the territory of actuary technically includes this island right here so yeah weird facts about Iceland again I can talk about Iceland all day but today it doesn't really relate to the Arctic Circle so we won't do it too much instead we'll talk about the fact that the Arctic Circle covers about a it's about 1 in 20 of the world's area just alone so about 5% of the world's surface it's closer to 4 but you know 4 to 5% of the world's surface is in the Arctic Circle this this area right here is about 45% of the world's area you know the area we can exist in it's more than that if the world's land area because there's a lot of ocean but it's about the amount of shut the water area but despite that only four million people live there and that might sound like about right like ok 4 percent 4 million people that sounds about great but then you consider oh there's not 100 million people there's over 7 billion people on earth because that and that means that in this area in 4% of the world's you know surfaces there despite that on the less than 1/10 of a percent of the world's population lives there it's very very very population you know scattered to say the least and yeah this means that every country has one thing in common and that is very unpopulated north's because countries that have their territory in the offic circle generally don't have much of their population they have a lot of territory there like Canada huge amount Denmark you know the vast majority of Denmark's land is actually in the Arctic Circle however despite that none of that let not the vast majority population is not in the Arctic Circle the vast majority of anything country's population is well well stuff of that and interestingly enough this means that all of their capital cities so if you look at Helsinki Moscow Hakan Oslo in fact if we look at the Scandinavian countries they're all very - but all of their capitals are very far south in fact Helsinki is the furthest south and Finland almost that you can get not quite but almost and it actually is the even though despite that it's the furthest north city of over a million people seguro Helsinki fun fact for you right there but then you look at our you know calm Oh Reykjavik even Greenland if you consider it to be its own country even though again within the king of denmark their capital is still south of the Arctic Circle despite most of Greenland's territory being north Canada's is very far south every single one of these can even Alaska's you know state capital Anchorage all of that I think actually largest city let's say for now but basically there are eight cities eight capitals etc and they're all very far south of the Arctic Circle this is because countries have land north of that again most of their people don't live there their actual center you know they're sending their geographic center might be further north but their population center the center of you know their their whole system the whole governmental system is all very far south so just keep that in mind speaker however despite the fact that most large cities in most other countries are very far south again look at Moscow st. Petersburg and etc in Russia which is a very fond off country look at Canada as the best example all of their cities are pretty much next to the border with the USA despite that there are a couple of cities in the Arctic or quite a few they're just not very large with the exception being the mask so you know how I said roughly four million people live you know north of the Arctic Circle about ten percent of those live in one city in Russia this one city right here has a huge density of population it's the big exception to the rule it gets a lot warmer than the rest of the Arctic Circle in latitude and it's one of the farthest north cities of any size you can find again it's a huge industrial Russian city and if you want to see what it looks like it looks like a normal place you can't you can barely even tell looking at just a random street view just for an example you can barely even tell looking at the place I mean this is a bad example right but you can barely tell looking at most of the place that it is an Arctic City this just looks like oh yeah this is Russia like is this Moscow is this another major city no this is Murmansk it's deep into the Arctic Circle but with with this exception which even then it's not hugely deep into the circle all of the large cities which have found north of the Arctic are actually optical I should say are all pretty you know small for their size and still pretty fast now again bear in mind that the Arctic Circle does go you have that far north you can see how like at the very edge of that is where in elec cities like mance girl like you know normo cities in Alaska etc most people who live in the Arctic Circle live just the north of the border which is why another major city Tromso again it's it's only a little bit north of it the my up favored example vote is one you'll find in in Russia because again most of the larger cities which are north of the Arctic Circle are found in Russia and one of the biggest examples in my opinion is Nora Liske so this is Nora Liske right here or no risk again I'm not like I'm not a Russian pronunciation genius hopefully that's not what you came to this video for if it is I'm sorry for you but if you look at this city right here for instance one there is a Lenin statue which is a benefit we'd want to find and two this is a very clear example of like this is a city in the Arctic that was built to be an Arctic powerhouse if you look at it you can see it was literally constructed and honestly yeah yeah as in like it was very clearly designed it's got a grid and everything like that and yeah this is a good example of like a prebuilt city which struggles in the Arctic where as Murmansk is one which does surprisingly well sing with tromsø etc so yeah basically most settlements in the Arctic Circle very far south and not very populated in the grand scheme of things and although a lot of people live in these huge cities a huge percentage of them do a lot of people also live in very remote towns villages etc if you look at resolute for instance which is just a random place in Canada this is one of the places that just blows my mind is like oh wow some people live there it exists this is the center of civilization on the entire island it's like a few shacks where you can go and buy something I guess and then it's pure wilderness off that you can literally see the line where it's like oh and then it's the wild and because the the villages the settlements are so small and so far apart it means there's pretty much no infrastructure this more north and I mentioned in my video talking about how like Oh yesa Kenda has bad transport this reason it's not just because it's not really feasible to you know have a good link to you know resolute on this side and right here it's not just because it's not really feasible in terms of the economics to have a huge highway going from you know all the way north in Alaska to all the way south it's not just for practical reasons they don't do it it's because you know first sorry for theoretical reasons it's also practically very hard to build this bond North the permafrost goes up and down it makes it hugely difficult to construct anything up here which is why everything you see this barn off looks like kind of a mess so let's take another example one of my favorite just questionable cities which is Barrow Alaska it has second name which is used in Google Maps encash Kuras they had a referendum on changing it and it was a that's a whole thing so they change their name back to the native people name so I can't say it cuz look at that look at this combination of characters together can you say utq IA g Vic you took Vic ID enough anyway that said so they change their name recently but Barrow Alaska is but you probably know it as if you know your cities in Alaska and this is a city which one blows my mind that it exists so if we go onto just a random street view of it it's like oh so yeah it's look at everything around here you can see how everything's built differently the every car is built differently you know it's like a different type of car all the way if their life is so hugely different in terms of what they can economically get available to them and how they have to live their life than what the house has looked like but yet so much is still the same despite the fact that it's one of the most northern Lisa I think it's the most northern set up settlement in America despite that fact there is still a Japanese restaurant I looked into this particular once I was like a sucker restaurant is that really a Japanese restaurant yeah it's Japanese restaurant set up by Korean immigrants to America I don't know why Koreans would emigrate to this far north in Alaska and then set up a Japanese restaurant I cannot wrap my head around why that's the case or why that's a thing but it is a thing there is so many things up here well you know there's a bank there is a fertile there's a pizza shop despite it being a really harsh place where if you go outside in the winter at just the wrong time and you forget your keys and you can't go back in your house you'll freeze to death in the outside you have minutes to get to the colder you know it's it's deadly it is not just harsh to survive economically it's harsh to survive on a physical level but there's a Mexican Grill here there's a it's it's um it to me singing at a pub less place but like this but free pass in population no roads in or out the only things that get to them because there's no even really practical ice access is you know Plains despite that people kind of fried and still live like normal there and I find that just be hugely fastening that despite the Arctic Circle again I mentioned it's not based on climate but generally speaking is very cold despite that people managed to make it work and it's just like another thing we're like you know how some people come you know are used to living in places where it's always warm I think you know California is the big stick I love this rust it's warm all year round it sometimes gets less warm or more warm but it's always warm there I live somewhere where there's about 15 degrees of temperature variance between like a normal summer day and normal winter day and that's really low parently compared to the urban average some people live in places where you have like a huge hundred degrees spread there are places in the optic that can be as hot as 30 degrees in the the summer or as cold as minus 50 in the winter in the same city in the same place you have to deal with both of those extremes and that is just a fact of life for some people a small percentage of the most population but it is still a fact of life and yeah I just find that pretty interesting so the other facts we should talk about well talking about the Arctic is that the Arctic is a lot colder than it should be sorry a lot warmer than it should be the reason so many people live in the Arctic 4 million compared to literally you're measuring in the the dozens for Antarctica and even then they don't permanently live there they like live on rotations no one really wants live in Antarctica and does for any non-essential reasons but a lot of people live in the Arctic and that's where they made their houses so how is that the case and for the longest time I've never understood how like people always say like oh there's the Jetstream and there's the oceans and they keep you warm but actually the Arctic is kept warm by the ocean and that seems weird but because there is so much ocean here that again Antarctica is a permanent lab mess there is no permanent landmass at the North Pole there are stations there there are things of flags in and so on and so forth but there is no permanent ice on the Arctic which means that there is water there all times water always stays I think the coldest it gets is like minus 1 then it starts to freeze but because there's so much water there which isn't freezing that keeps everything around it a lot warmer it's a really weird effect which means that effectively a lot of places which should otherwise be entirely freezing managed to survive that's why a lot of northernmost last shoots in Europe for instance are freezing on the upside of you know in the North America and I find that kind of fascinating I also find it fascinating that again in North America Europe Asia all have land Northy otic circle but only antarctica has land south of the Antarctic Circle and also it's worth noting the Arctic Circle and the struggle of how cold is up there is one of the biggest problems of I guess Russia so the reason again one of the things that I think confuses people a lot at first is like Russia such a hard struggle to get Crimea let's not focus on where it belongs to but let's just say they really wanted Crimea why would they even care so much by having a port here it doesn't make sense Russia has so much ocean why did they never dominate the oceans why did they never have a huge you know vast empire which belong to them because they could colonize the seas and that's because most of their sea was not usable for most of the year if it freezes in the winter your ships can't go anywhere so Russia mainly has two fleets they have a pacific fleet which i think is based at Vladivostok I'm not I'm not innately aware of all the Russian military tactics but I believe there the fleet based in the Far East and they have a fleet based in in the Black Sea over here they that's the only places they can actually base ships because even if you ignore the fact that there's a huge you have to go for so many countries and pasta Denmark etc to get out from here it freezes over here it freezes over all the way up here most of Russia's sea even though it has a lot of access some of the most in the world freezes over besides in the Black Sea which again still has the turkey she's still with and besides in the Far Far East which they again in both sides they put a lot of effort into getting Crimea that's why there's a and - you put in getting this area in general that's why there's the whole Crimean War not the current one the one hundred over a hundred years ago on and they put a lot of effort into getting Vladivostok during the world wars and yeah that the reason for that is because you know the Navy was becoming more important and Russia despite having some of the most see in the world could not have a Navy because of how you know that that their place is so far north you don't unnecessarily anticipate that but yeah it freezes up here which is a problem and you might not realize that but that's why Russia's like that so more facts about each other country because I just want to mention that Russia one of the things they did used to own that they don't anymore is Russian America or Alaska so Alaska is actually a piece of territory that Russia sold to America if it weren't for Alaska then there would be obviously no America north of the Arctic Circle Russia sold a part of there you know so if we go back to the market just for fun the poverty in America which is north it was you know sold to them by Russia so if it weren't for that sale they wouldn't be not fair but why did Russia sell Alaska to America because so many people mock this on a like on a daily thing like oh yeah we boy up for like I think it's eight million dollars or something and we're making that investment payback but at the time it was like hugely unpopular in America to buy Alaska it was seen as like wasting money just giving money to Russia and on the Russian side of things they didn't want it they really was sure because the British were expanding in North America at the time you can see how much territory they ended up with but yeah basically you know like Russia was sure that eventually Britain would just take their stuff and they wouldn't really be able to defend it too well so they figured sell it to America or lose it it's the same thing with the Louisiana Purchase like you know one of the hugest purchases in American history they the French sold it because they were sure it would be taken eventually and they needed the money for other things same with Russia needed money had territory they thought would be invaded and that's why these deals make place it's not it's not that some terrible tactician and Russia was just like yeah it was Russian America good for anyway right it's it's that's not how these things come about geopolitical interests change a lot 150 years and that's why I expect the optic will change a lot to one Greenland is a country which is very likely to eventually go independent it's it's currently not sufficient in the slightest because they have fishing and not too much more as an industry most their money has come from Denmark however despite that they have a huge nationalist movement and again they really don't want to be a part of Denmark so at some point it's likely that they'll go independent again i knows what that point is maybe the same time Iceland leaves so we'll likely see the power of balance shift but again Green Line will never be a major power just kind of like a huge Arctic player I guess by itself and yeah it's also worth noting that Canada all of its land that is in the Arctic Circle is owned by Canada as a whole not by any specific province and it's also very very very unpopulated again there are settlements here like resolute like I mentioned Polaris and my favorite one is a lot this is the northernmost partly settled place in the earth I want to say but yeah a lot it's just a place where five people live for Canadian military purposes it's it's one the craziest like this is what it looks like this is the northernmost settlement it's a few houses and I don't know when all that is covered in snow and that's it so anyway I could talk about the optical day I love cold places I find them fascinating like I said I've actually been to all of the countries in the Arctic Circle but I've never been north of that circle like I think on flights I've gone maybe potentially and I'm not sure but I've never been to any city Northy optic circle so at some point I'm gonna go to my I mean I've inter I mean be very close but I'd love to go to tromsø sometime I think that's the most accessible Arctic City so that's the thing though I think I'd recommend because I've looked into a whole bunch like it's always been on the list but there's no flights from London director there you have to go live I like Oslo and I hate connecting flights in Europe because they seem a bit of her I I don't usually do connecting flights unless there's like some fun reason to so yeah anyway that's that's why Tromso is like on the list and like I guess I'll show you when I first go to the otic circle but before I go though because I I want to talk about the artisan more like I said I like cold places could do it all day but there's one big question that's been on my mind so again I generally speaking this is how I would find my beliefs I like to look at evidence first and then try and work out the faction there a lot of people respond to my Canada transport video by saying ah you see as an ardent communist this is why all of this is wrong I'm gonna try and justify this really backwards Lee if like or really we should form more money into it and make it more expensive it's like well but yes um I'm not that sole person so here's a few things in the Arctic I can't quite linked together so every single country which has some to its territory is generally very left-leaning politically the one exception to this is of course Alaska Alaska is a red state in a very conservative country of the US however it's worth noting the Republicans in Alaska aren't the same as the rest of the country also worth noting that they have the Alaskan Independence Party at one point so politics in Alaska is very very strange and also worth noting that Alaska is one of the few places in the world which has a ubi a universal basic income and it's not phrased as a UPI it's not like oh this is so you don't have to work like in a lot of countries that is it's just oh yeah you live in Alaska and it's hard here so have a bunch of money on us I think it's paid for by all maybe well maybe it's just one of those fascinating things that like you know all of these countries are quite left-leaning Alaska's are maybe exception but it's still not really Russia a few people will say it's an exception but I mean they literally have the Soviet revolution you know one of the very few countries on earth and even today where Putin's and sure and you can argue he's not left it's like the second largest party in Russia is the Communist Party if if Putin Falls the Communists are taking over again you know so you know there's like every country is very left-leaning politically speaking they're also very well-off economically with Russia being the huge exception although even then on a global scale Russia does quite well all of the countries even the ones about oil because Norway has a bunch of oil of course yeah right that's the easiest thing but like you know Sweden Finland Iceland Denmark Canada and America all very very high income countries with the Nordics being particularly high and then the other thing is the fact that all of these countries have very very poorly developed north and a lot more territory than most countries so the first largest country is north the Arctic Circle the second largest country also North the third largest country also North depending on how you want to measure that China's not but it's the biggest exception in the top four they're all very large countries my fear that one alone would be like okay they can easily get their borders because if you claim land in the Arctic that no one's claimed before no one's gonna go there and refute you because it's so cold and no one what's the general ego that's collected so Sweden Norway and Finland much bigger than most Central European countries Russia biggest country I mean what more do I need to say about Greenland Canada and America so yeah lots of land lots of money left-leaning politically I don't think necessarily the hope you will be like a left-leaning means make money right but they're left-leaning in like the business friendly way so it's not like a you know your traditional Venezuelan dream or whatever your actual dream is so there's this like there's this whole thing of like how do those things link together I don't know for sure I I would love to know your conclusions again please don't do this thing where you're like here's my political beliefs let me wrap my facts around this because I see so much of that let me know if you have a good fear about that because it's one of those things that I think about a lot like trying to work it out and I don't think I have an answer for you because there are parts of the world where they're very they have a lot of the same features but they're not in the Arctic again if you're left-leaning politically in enough par of the world and you're not in the Arctic Circle there's a lot of countries doing horrific aliy from that a lot of countries which have a lot of land area in other parts of the world you know I mean look in Algeria or the DRC or whatever not great doing you know because it's the similar thing so yeah what do you logic is let me know comments down below but for now second channel don't care goodbye

Channel: ibx2cat

Views: 131,124

Keywords: arctic, circle, iceland, leaving, losing, country

Id: 8V4iai5YkTo

Length: 24min 35sec (1475 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 29 2018