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Antipodes - The Opposite Side of The World From You
🌍 Did you know there’s a spot on Earth exactly opposite yours? Welcome to the world of Antipodes! In today’s episode of Open Atlas, we’re diving into the fascinating phenomenon of antipodes-places on Earth that are precisely opposite each other. Think of it as an Earth sandwich!
From unique pairings like Spain and New Zealand to Argentina and China, join us as we explore these opposite twins and uncover what makes each spot special. Stick around to find out where you’d end up if you dug straight through the planet and hit the other side! Subscribe to Open Atlas to explore more geography wonders!
Sources
Antipodes Map and Geographic Information
Interactive antipode maps like those at Antipodes Map - Tunnel to the other side of the world provide data on location pairs across Earth.
Geographic Studies on Land and Water Distribution
Information from National Geographic and academic studies on Earth’s land and water distribution provide insight into why most antipodes lie in oceans.
Popular Culture References to the Earth Sandwich
Coverage of the Earth Sandwich challenge is available through outlets like The Guardian and BBC.
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Andes vs Himalayas: The Ultimate Mountain Showdown
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In this video, we pit two of the world’s most iconic mountain ranges against each other: the Andes and the Himalayas. From towering peaks to incredible biodiversity, trekking adventures to rich cultural histories, find out which range stands tall in the ultimate mountain showdown. So, which one would you rather explore? Sources: National Geographic - Andes Mountains Overview Encyclopedia Britan...
Why Point Nemo Is the Strangest Place on Earth
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Join us as we explore Point Nemo, the oceanic pole of inaccessibility and one of the most remote places on Earth! Discover why this isolated spot in the South Pacific is so significant, from its role as a spacecraft graveyard to its fascinating ecosystem. Learn about the challenges of accessing this distant location and why it captivates geographers, space enthusiasts, and adventurers alike. Do...
Why Africa and South America look the same
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Ever wonder why Africa and South America look like they could fit together like puzzle pieces? In this episode of Open Atlas, we dive into the fascinating history that links these two continents. From their shared origins in the supercontinent Pangaea to the evidence of plate tectonics that tore them apart, we explore the geological forces that shaped their striking similarities. Learn how thes...
The Anglo Zanzibar Conflict Was The Shortest War Ever
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Imagine a war that lasts only 38 minutes-sounds impossible, right? But that’s exactly what happened during the Anglo-Zanzibar War, the shortest recorded war in history. In this video, we explore the incredible story behind this lightning-fast conflict, from the tensions that sparked it to the rapid bombardment that brought it to an end. Learn about the key players, the stakes involved, and the ...
The 5 Stages of a Geopolitical Crisis (and How to Survive it)
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Geopolitical crises are becoming more frequent and can have a significant impact on our daily lives. In this video, we break down the 5 stages of a geopolitical crisis-Early Warning Signs, Escalation, Crisis Point, Stabilization, and Recovery-and show you how to navigate each one. Whether it’s a conflict, economic collapse, or political upheaval, understanding these stages can help you stay saf...
Russia's Empire in 2024
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Discover the evolution of Russia from its medieval origins in Kievan Rus' to the colossal Russian Empire and its modern-day incarnation. This video explores how Kievan Rus' laid the groundwork for the rise of Moscow, which would eventually expand into a vast empire under the Tsars. We delve into the transformative periods of Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, and Catherine the Great, as well a...
Anguilla: 33 Beaches & Ancient Secrets of a Battled Island!
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Description: In this video, we dive into the fascinating story of Anguilla, a small island in the Caribbean with 33 pristine beaches and ancient artifacts dating back to AD 600. Discover the island’s unique geography, its colonial history fought over by European powers, and how Anguilla’s people secured autonomy while maintaining close ties with the UK. We'll also touch on the island’s culture,...
The Lost Wonders of Earth (And Why You’ve Never Heard of Them)
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Earth is full of hidden marvels-ancient cities, natural wonders, and mysterious monuments that have been forgotten by time. In this video, we uncover the lost wonders of Earth that you’ve probably never heard of, from Cambodia’s ancient city of Koh Ker to Japan’s underwater Yonaguni Monument. These incredible sites offer a glimpse into forgotten civilizations and the mysteries of our planet, ye...
American Samoa: Volcanic Island Drifting to China? Uncover the Hidden Secrets!
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Discover the incredible story of American Samoa 🌍 From its unique geography and rich culture to the dangers lurking beneath its lush landscapes, this episode takes you on a journey through the extraordinary contrasts of American Samoa. Learn about the volcanic hotspot, explore the vibrant marine life, and find out what makes this remote U.S. territory so special. 🌴 Don't miss out-hit subscribe ...

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  • @donuthole7236
    @donuthole7236 19 годин тому

    Is there actual footage of Point Nemo or is that a secret?

  • @stonewoodstudios
    @stonewoodstudios День тому

    Fascinating video, but you sound like a student padding out an essay. Six minutes of video for, like, two and a half minutes of actual information. EDIT: Or the script was AI generated, as suggested by others. It's probably that.

  • @phearlesspharaoh3697
    @phearlesspharaoh3697 День тому

    It’s odd you can’t find it on Google earth.

  • @matthewluecke3704
    @matthewluecke3704 День тому

    Sometimes, the closest human beings to Point Nemo are on the International Space Station.

  • @MaxRaymondMusic
    @MaxRaymondMusic День тому

    Use KM instead of miles... Miles is unprecised and almost just the USA use it. It makes your less credible and serious.

  • @danielvalles9554
    @danielvalles9554 День тому

    It's the Audit the Audit guy!

  • @kylerittenhouse5426
    @kylerittenhouse5426 День тому

    Audit the Audit?

  • @simonagree4070
    @simonagree4070 2 дні тому

    Hmm. Gilligans Island? A missed opportunity for Superman's Fortress of Solitude? And if it's a convenient dumping ground for space junk, how can it be useful for studying marine biology?

  • @nellidivina5280
    @nellidivina5280 2 дні тому

    We can teleport to point nemo

  • @Malbeefance
    @Malbeefance 2 дні тому

    I am inclined to believe Point Nemo is also the location of Ryleh.

  • @TobiasBritton-j9j
    @TobiasBritton-j9j 2 дні тому

    Not see anything,

  • @johnwood551
    @johnwood551 2 дні тому

    So you’re saying it’s wonderful for being a garbage dump for space junk. Why don’t we make our space junk fly towards the sun instead and just burn up instead of trashing the ocean ? Too bad you didn’t show the island and what it’s like.

  • @garyssmith4559
    @garyssmith4559 3 дні тому

    Redundancies and repetitions and rephrasings a gogo! AI generated?

  • @mr.iforgot3062
    @mr.iforgot3062 3 дні тому

    Hawaii is the most distant island.

  • @IndianLondoner
    @IndianLondoner 3 дні тому

    Thanks 🎉

  • @IndianLondoner
    @IndianLondoner 3 дні тому

    Thanks 🎉

  • @oriraykai3610
    @oriraykai3610 3 дні тому

    I would think being the home base of the Nautilus and Captain Nemo would be in the list. 😆

  • @rubiks6
    @rubiks6 3 дні тому

    Blah, blah, blah. 99% of the verbiage was insignificant.

  • @gonshocks
    @gonshocks 4 дні тому

    How does "1,400" miles become "thousands of miles"?

    • @blue9multimediagroup
      @blue9multimediagroup День тому

      Is 1,400 not at least a thousand?

    • @stonewoodstudios
      @stonewoodstudios День тому

      ​@@blue9multimediagroupIndeed it is more than one thousand, but he said "thousands". Plural. I mean, you could argue it's "1.4 thousands" but that feels weird.

  • @MrPoornakumar
    @MrPoornakumar 4 дні тому

    Himalaya's (Hima=snow. Alaya=abode, in Sanskrit) are invariably mentioned singly, but should be associated with other mountain ranges too - Karakorum, Hindu'kush, Kun lun, Tien'shan, Altai & all converging at Pamirs, itself a crazy knot of all these. Minor ranges like Hinduraj, Zanskar, Ladakh ranges, though lofty, run for short distances at various angles to Himalayas. I clarify this - the 14 eight thousanders are: Everest or Chomolongma (8848 m Himalaya), K2 or Godwin Austen (8611m Karakorum), Kanchenjunga (8586 m Himalaya), Lhotse (8516 m Himalaya), Makalu (8485 m Himalaya), Cho Oyu (8188 m Himalaya), Dhaulagiri I (8167 m Himalaya), Manaslu (8163 m Himalaya), Nangaparbat (8125 m Himalaya), Annapurna I (8091 m Himalaya), Gasherbrum I or K5 (8080 m Kara korum), Broad peak I or K3 (8051 m Karakorum), Gasherbrum II or K4 (8034 m Karakorum) & Shisha Pangma or Gosainthan (8027m Himalaya) are in both ranges. No seven thousanders are outside this Asian region, in any other continent. Aconcagua the highest peak outside at 6960.8m, is in Andes (South America) & 222 peaks (all in Asia) are higher than it. North America's highest, Mt. Denali (McKinley) at 6190.5 m is ranked 809. None in Africa or Europe exceed the 6000 m limit. Highest point I reached , Mt. Khardung La (I am not a mountaineer), is revealed to be at 6002 m in recent reckonings. Himalayas runs for a 1000 miles (1600 km) between the anchoring peaks Namche Barwa (7816m, ranked 47) in east, around which River Brahmaputra takes a turn to south and Nanga parbat (= naked peak, 8125m, ranked 8) in west, mistaken to be in Karakorum range, because of its proximity. Longest glaciers outside Poles are in this region: Fedchenko 77 k.m. is in Pamirs (Gorno Badakhshan, Tajikistan). Siachen (76 k.m.), Biafo (67 k.m.), Baltoro (63 k.m.), Batura (57 k.m.) & Hispar (49 k.m.) are in Gilgit-Baltistan region straddling Karakorum range. A feature associated with Himalaya range (between Himalayas & Kun'lun ranges) is the unique Tibetan plateau at uniform elevation of about 4500m (14760 ft; incidentally 4,384.4 m = 14,384.4 feet) with "rare" atmosphere (a third less air pressure than at sea level) that it is hard to breathe while the native Tibetans are well adapted. Tibet is about a million square km. in area. Comparable Altiplano area is in a wide stretch in the Andes (in Bolivia-Peru) above 4000 m, on a tenth of Tibet's area. The heating in summer of Tibet plateau is the reason for regular Monsoon rains in South & South-East Asia. This too is unique in the world (can't see anywhere else). Culture is a consequence of Geography (Orography & Climatology that depends on Ocean currents). Andes is the longest mountain range. Though we consider them as "separate", it is but a continuation of the same Mountain chain, called "Rockies" in North America (Rockies is the continuation of Andes). Bio-diversity you allude to is a consequence of this "long" mountain chain from N.Pole to S.Pole covering "all" Latitudes (Koppen's climate zones). But isn't so in a continuum of mountains in Himalaya group, in which the Northern marker is "Khan Tengri" [7318 m/27° 36’ 30”N/ 88° 06 ‘42“E] & Southern marker is "Kabru South" [7010 m/42° 12’ 39”N/ 80° 10‘ 30“E], a sub-peak of Kanchnjunga. It implies a stretch of only 15° in Latitude. So, where is the scope for comparison? 7:40 You mentioned "Sherpa" which is actually Sher-paw (Sher=tiger, Paw=foot in Nepali & Hindi sharing same alphabet, grammar & Sanskrit roots). Nepal falls within the cultural zone of North India, irrespective of political divisions. Only that the British failed to win that land & incorporate it n their Indian Empire(the King/Queen of England is the Emperor/Empress of "Empire of India" too, created by them, if you read the Indian coins minted before 1947). Hindus whether in India or Nepal (Nepalis can freely move in India; my car-washer is a Nepali gentleman who lives with his family) make the same pilgrimages to same places ("Kumbh Mela" in Prayag where 10 million people might gather for a holy day, or eternal Varanasi; there are 51 Shakti-peethas too as per legend - 5 in Bangladesh, 2 in Nepal, 1 each in Pakistan, Sri Lanka & Tibet and of course, 0 - none in USA). 8:18 To sum it up - it is stupid to compare. I don't know (nor care) who is the winner. But I can say you're the loser, with abominable paucity of knowledge but still deign to proffer an opinion. You need to learn a lot, before.

  • @FashionFunPJ
    @FashionFunPJ 4 дні тому

    Okay…let’s Pollute the oceans with space trash instead of letting the trash float in space, where there is Zero Impact on Earth

  • @IsamuLicca2
    @IsamuLicca2 4 дні тому

    little to no actual content

  • @welfarebeast8576
    @welfarebeast8576 5 днів тому

    So strange, so strange, a spot on the ocean. Well: How deep is it there? This video will give you no answer…

  • @chipsramek3868
    @chipsramek3868 5 днів тому

    WOW ... They are really afraid ! People are finally understanding there never was an International Space Station and no one ever visited the Moon ... and the Con man Elon never rocketed a TESLA Roadster to Mars. ALL LIES ! Notice how the International Control Tribe (Bankers) worked "Climate Change" into this propaganda ... They really want another World Wide Carbon Extortion Fee ...aka... Tax. Once enough people understand We do Not live on a spinning Ball they loose their grip on us. The sky rotates overhead around our Level Plain. The sea is level all over our World ... F the science lies we have been sold.

  • @tominiowa2513
    @tominiowa2513 5 днів тому

    Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.

    • @robertleach5355
      @robertleach5355 5 днів тому

      Ok, when it said: translate to English, I was impressed.

    • @tominiowa2513
      @tominiowa2513 5 днів тому

      @@robertleach5355 Wonder how the Eldars feel about having human space garbage dumped on their city?

  • @BobSmith-xe8we
    @BobSmith-xe8we 6 днів тому

    Welcome to audit the audit where we point out the right and wrongs of police activity lol

  • @SL-AGiroux
    @SL-AGiroux 6 днів тому

    This is what Pacific rim was made for!!

  • @s27gonier
    @s27gonier 6 днів тому

    so its just a free dump to leave spacecraft garbage for the fishies...or plankton. for ppl so smart, should be coming up with a better way of disposing their waste...too smart to recycle 🙄

  • @jimgreen5788
    @jimgreen5788 7 днів тому

    Open Atlas, at 3:51, "South PECIFIC Ocean"? Hmmm!

  • @stoobydootoo4098
    @stoobydootoo4098 8 днів тому

    Nemo? Jules Verne? Sounds a bit ominous!

  • @linhlethithuy8259
    @linhlethithuy8259 8 днів тому

    what a fantastic video! I really loved the visuals and the way you compared the two mountain ranges. Honestly, though, I feel like the Himalayas get too much credit when it comes to trekking experiences. the Andes have some stunning trails and unique cultures that are often overlooked. What do you all think?

  • @CanadianSmoke
    @CanadianSmoke 9 днів тому

    48°52'05.9"S 123°23'06.0"W -48.868306, -123.385000

    • @stoobydootoo4098
      @stoobydootoo4098 8 днів тому

      I think you're about 50 ft out!😊

    • @CanadianSmoke
      @CanadianSmoke 7 днів тому

      @@stoobydootoo4098 Nice!!

    • @welfarebeast8576
      @welfarebeast8576 5 днів тому

      How deep is it there? The video don’t say…

    • @CanadianSmoke
      @CanadianSmoke 5 днів тому

      @@welfarebeast8576 I believe it would be approximately 4,000 metres. (13,000 feet)

  • @JamaicaWhiteMan
    @JamaicaWhiteMan 10 днів тому

    AI, and "miles" mean nothing to me. You have a problem using real units for distance? Might as well have been "football fields".

    • @LegendofLaw
      @LegendofLaw 8 днів тому

      Its real distance to Americans. Use your small brain and calculate.

    • @JamaicaWhiteMan
      @JamaicaWhiteMan 8 днів тому

      @@LegendofLaw How about you join the rest of the world? Oh, forgot, you're MAGA. Good luck with that.

    • @LegendofLaw
      @LegendofLaw 6 днів тому

      @JamaicaWhiteMan yep...and MAGA one. So bye bye Jamaica bullshit. Keep living in your 3rd world

    • @BradleyTrieloff
      @BradleyTrieloff 5 днів тому

      Miles are a real unit of measurement, why would you think it isn't?

    • @BradleyTrieloff
      @BradleyTrieloff 5 днів тому

      ​@@JamaicaWhiteManwow, just... wow.

  • @charjl96
    @charjl96 13 днів тому

    "Did you know there's a place on Earth that's farther from land than any other point?" Yeah, there would kinda have to be, don't you think?

    • @stoobydootoo4098
      @stoobydootoo4098 8 днів тому

      There could be 2 or more places that are the same distance, to the nearest millimetre ... er, I don't think I've thought this through ..😅

    • @chipsramek3868
      @chipsramek3868 5 днів тому

      That was part of their Fear Porn content ... keeping the World safe using the far away place as a dump.

  • @reddeadlarvae
    @reddeadlarvae 15 днів тому

    Don’t watch. It’s not a place. Just coordinates in the ocean.

    • @rubiks6
      @rubiks6 3 дні тому

      Perhaps you need to look up "place" in a dictionary.

    • @MaxRaymondMusic
      @MaxRaymondMusic День тому

      Thanks... I was about to lost my time wat hing this useless video.

  • @deadname...
    @deadname... 16 днів тому

    What intrigues me the most is it's the most distant and undisturbed point on earth from humans, and what do we do... Use it as a garbage can, I understand why but it bugs me.

  • @ARFirstRaptor2011
    @ARFirstRaptor2011 19 днів тому

    Well, pharaphrasing - you are saying point nemo is undisturbed so it is perfect for biological research, at the same time humans use that as space junk yard... therefore, point nemo is Not undisturbed by humans. We humans will find a way to trash everywhere in planent and beyond

  • @jeffwangerin8089
    @jeffwangerin8089 19 днів тому

    So what you’re telling me is point Nemo is the strangest place in the world because there’s no laws there that prevent space agencies from dumping their garbage there. Am I getting that right? Because I’m thinking there’s far stranger places than that.

    • @chipsramek3868
      @chipsramek3868 5 днів тому

      The US Coast Guard dumps its used batteries in a big pile underwater in the Gulf near FL.

    • @benjamincornia7311
      @benjamincornia7311 4 дні тому

      Exactly, it’s not strange at all. It’s just another place.

    • @Bad.Pappy.Official
      @Bad.Pappy.Official 3 дні тому

      Far stranger places like New York.

  • @WOOD-BOOGER-lc4fl
    @WOOD-BOOGER-lc4fl 20 днів тому

    Antarctica is more exciting

  • @ayushbhandari1779
    @ayushbhandari1779 21 день тому

    Nice

  • @JOBT0
    @JOBT0 26 днів тому

    Hi, I like your videos a lot, interesting and leaning, but I got one problem thought. In Miss one thing and a Think Aim Not the only European how doesn't understand Units in US-style Measurement's length, Speed, deferents volume etc. So, please put in some small signs every time you mention stuff like that, for us Lbs, gallons, miles, is "jiddrich" Or if you put in your script before rendering it out. The rest of the world will thank you, and follow the content better. The last thing, thanks to good content. 😃

  • @SeverityOne
    @SeverityOne 27 днів тому

    '...it's the farthest away from any landmass (which is the incorrect term)...' Proceeds to show stock footage of a bird. Which got there... how exactly? Fly to the middle of nowhere?

  • @colinwalker777
    @colinwalker777 27 днів тому

    Video and Script sound like it's straight out of an AI generator.

  • @BobTheChainsawMan
    @BobTheChainsawMan 27 днів тому

    Pretty good video, but I have to say that sometimes it feels like you're "stretching" content a bit, there are too many transitions and I wish you would just get to your point a little faster lol. But still a good video!

  • @Playeszz
    @Playeszz Місяць тому

    I’m first Lez gooooo