Where Was the Last Place Discovered on Earth?

it seems like today the world is full of people there are seven point four billion of us after all and it seems like everywhere has already been discovered there are satellites an International Space Station GPS and there have even been explorers like this gentleman after all but it didn't always used to be like this the world used to be a much larger place the question is where and when was the last piece of land on earth that was discovered by humans to start literally at the beginning of humanity we go back to Ethiopia in 195 thousand BC we don't really know exactly when humanity discovered certain parts of the world this long ago but we do have our best guesses that we can make based off a fossil evidence that has been discovered so let's go with our best guesses for now the oldest Homo sapiens fossils to date were found in Ethiopia so human exploration likely started from here with an entire world to explore it took until 140,000 - 160,000 years ago for humans to discover modern-day Sudan but by 125,000 years ago humans had reached the southern point of the African continent and at the same time had also crossed the sea into Arabia or modern-day Yemen this new group of Arabian based humans had reached Israel by 100 thousand years ago and Oman by 75,000 to 125,000 years ago back in Africa 90 thousand years ago humanity had reached the Democratic Republic of the Congo back over again in Asia 70,000 years ago humans first arrived in India and 67 thousand years ago had reached the Philippines marking the first time that humans arrived in Oceania fifty thousand years ago humans first arrived in Taiwan and 50,000 to 80,000 years ago humans also arrived in Egypt for the first time humans arrived in Australia forty-eight thousand years ago those early settlers to Australia and their descendants would remain almost completely undisturbed by the rest of the human population until 1770 with the arrival of Captain James Cook a guy who liked doing that a lot we'll get back to him later so about 47,000 years ago humans arrived in Japan and 1,000 years later arrived in Laos and Indonesia finally 45,000 years ago humans arrived in Greece which was the first place and first time that humans arrived in Europe usually when humans arrived somewhere for the fur time things die so naturally the Neanderthals of Europe would mysteriously vanish 5,000 years later humans settled Italy 43,000 years ago and based on our knowledge of fossils somehow skipped France and arrived in the UK around 43 thousand years ago and Germany 42 thousand years ago on the other side of the world humans had discovered China 39,000 to 42,000 years ago Tasmania forty-one thousand years ago and New Guinea forty thousand years ago sometime later thirty four thousand years ago humans got around to discovering Sri Lanka and then we discovered another new continent North America was settled 25 thousand to forty thousand years ago from across that land bridge that used to exist because walking somewhere is somewhat easier than inventing boats to sail there and that's why there were millions of people already here when Columbus arrived but anyway by twenty eight thousand years ago a good chunk of Europe had been explored including France the Czech Republic Romania Poland and Russia Portugal was finally reached twenty four thousand five hundred years ago and Sicily twenty thousand years ago so strangely this means that humans had reached to North America before humans reached Portugal but anyway the mainland United States was first reached sixteen thousand years ago and humans first arrived in South America fourteen thousand eight hundred years ago where the oldest remains have been found in Chile back across the ocean in Europe Scandinavia was first settled by humans in around nine thousand two hundred BC and Ireland in 7700 BC the Baltic states were first settled around then in 7600 BC over in Asia Cambodia was reached in seven thousand BC and this super remote island above Siberia called Yaakov Island was somehow discovered back in 6300 BC which is weird because there's still a lot left undiscovered jumping back a continent Malta was discovered at 5200 BC and across another ocean Puerto Rico was eventually discovered at 4000 BC which coincidentally is when the Sid Meier's Civilization games all began this is presumably when people started sending out their settlers for the first time Greenland was reached in 2000 BC Fiji Vanuatu and Samoa were all reached around 1000 BC by the Polynesians a while went by with no new discoveries until 209 ad when Hawaii was also finally discovered by the Polynesians they remained there undisturbed by the rest of humanity until 1778 when that same guy named James Cook had to land on their islands as well anyway the next big discovery was Madagascar which despite being enormous and right next to Africa remained undiscovered by humans until 500 AD the Roman Empire rose and fell and in that entire time there were no humans on Madagascar what else is weird is that the first settlers here didn't come from Africa like you would think but came on canoes all the way from Borneo across the entire Indian Ocean so moving on the Faroe Islands above Scotland were discovered in 600 AD the Bahamas at 850 ad and Iceland remained untouched by humanity until the Vikings founded in 874 a be the final significantly large and habitable place to be discovered by humans was New Zealand which saw no humans until the arrival of the Maori Polynesians sometime between 1250 and 1300 next we enter the great age of European exploration in which were about to find out - only resulted in the real human discoveries of a few scattered islands the Portuguese are the first humans to land on six of these islands in a row Madeira in 1420 the Azores in 1439 Cape Verde in 1462 annobón in 1474 South Tomei and príncipe in 1485 and one poor exiled Portuguese soldier landed on st. Helena in 1516 the only place the Spanish were the first to arrive at where the Bonin Islands south of Japan in 1543 and the Polynesians landed on the Chatham Islands in 1550 the last such polynesian discovery back over in europe this frozen hell hole called Svalbard were made untouched by humans until an English Whaler landed here in 1604 Bermuda was landed on by a group of shipwreck Englishmen at 1609 and Yan Mayon was also first landed on by a Whaler in 1615 Mauritius was landed on by the Dutch in 1638 and the dodo quickly vanished from the island afterwards Reunion Island was reached in 1642 by the French Tristan da Cunha by the Dutch in 1643 the Falkland Islands by the English in 1690 which would remain almost totally irrelevant until Margaret Thatcher Rodriguez island in 1691 by the French ill st. Paul and ile Amsterdam both by the Dutch in 1696 Ascension Island was first landed on in 1701 by 60 shipwrecked Englishmen who were stranded there for two months the Seychelles in 1770 by the French the Kerguelen Islands in 1772 also by the French South Georgia in 1775 by that overachiever James Cook once again Lord Howe Island in 1788 by the British and Prince Edward's Island in 1799 by the French by 1800 there really wasn't a whole lot left to discover but that didn't stop people from trying and succeeding the South Shetland Islands were landed on in 1819 by the British Matt curry Island in 1820 by the Russians the South Orkney Islands in 1821 by the British and the Carosi Islands also in 1821 by some British sealers that got shipwrecked and stranded there for over two years well that's about it ah right except for the seventh continent that's bigger than Australia at the bottom of the globe Antarctica was never even seen with human eyes until 1820 when this Russian explorer discovered it but failed to actually land on it that means that humans had seen the planet Uranus before anybody had ever seen Antarctica so after seeing it in 1820 it took a while to actually land on the continent it wasn't until 1895 that the first confirmed landing happened by a team of Norwegians and with that moment every piece of land on planet earth from 195 thousand BC all the way until 1895 had been finally landed on by the human species so thank you all for watching this video I hope that you found it informative or interesting and if you did feel free to post in the comments to continue the discussion if you are interested in informative videos like this one in the future you can subscribe to my channel by clicking here and you can check out some of my other videos over here on the left thank you all for watching again and we'll see you all next time

Channel: RealLifeLore

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Id: HfLVYr38D0Q

Length: 8min 51sec (531 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 21 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/colefly]

That is until I dump a bunch of gravel of the continental shelf and claim it with my own flag

[u/hobobob182]

The fact that we saw Uranus before we saw Antarctica is crazy to me

[u/fireattack]

It looks like the author skipped Russia (or most part of Russia) and it magically became red when he was talking about the US.

[u/kumk]

The wikipedia article for Crozet Islands states that they were discovered and landed on in 1772, where the video states they were discovered in 1821. Maybe some of the years are nor correct but I would say they are broadly right. Never the less I found the video very informative and enjoyable.

[u/lumpking69]

Didn't I read on the news a couple of months ago that someone found an undiscovered (shitty) island accidentally via google earth?

[u/GanasbinTagap]

Yeah it's not as simple as that.