Finding the Source of the Nile River
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2021
- The source of the Nile has been sought after for millennia to no avail. But today I take a look at where this question comes from, those who tried to solve it, and why. Who knows, maybe by the end we'll even get an answer to our question, as well as get a glimpse into Africa's future.
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We already know James May was the one that found it though
True
With a Volvo estate 😅
Lol, that episode is the first thing i thought when I read the title.
Came here for this comment
I see there is a Top Gear lads meeting here
The fact that Diogenes was indeed right, and Ptolemy wasn't betrayed by believing his tale is truly heartwarming.
The fact that the Mountains of the Moon existed after all when it seemed like an urban legend was quite the twist I didn't expect. Usually with these "guesses" of what the unknown is is usually wrong, and when Ptolemy pushed the theory of the Mountains of the Moon being the source of the Nile, I thought it would be like his Geocentric model.
Well, water running out of mountains into lakes and rivers isn't exactly unique to the Nile. It's how pretty much every river in the world forms.
It's one of those cases where natives' oral history reached outsiderd and got changedbup then interpreted as myth.
@boy Afrika Oh I'm certain that the land that ancient merchant had reached was indeed Rwanda, and the Rwenzori Mountains
@boy Afrika That's awesome. I really hope African history and African cultures will be more widely known around the world in the coming years thanks to African content creators. Maybe 10 years from now there will be R-Pop (Rwanda) that will be as big as K-Pop is today ;)
@@aaronmarks9366 Africa could be the most prosperous continent on the planet with its abundant land and natural resources. History is full of examples of people rising from the bottom to the top and vice versa.
David Livingstone died from dysentery and malaria on 1 May 1873, at the age of 60, in Chief Chitambo's Village in North Rhodesia (now Zambia). His heart is buried in Africa, under a Mvula tree (now the site of the Livingstone Memorial), but his remains are buried at Westminster Abbey.
Yep, that sounds like a pretty good burial combo.
Take the man to the hall of dead heroes but keep the heart where he died trying.
amazing
He dint get to play zeldore
Stanley also uttered the most British statement ever: "Dr Livingstone I presume", after finding him missing in the middle Africa.
So, basically he was trolling the Brits...
He was Welsh at one point
@@vincentcleaver1925 no?
@@vincentcleaver1925 What American wouldn't?
@@firstconsul7286 Stanley was a British immigrant to America though, if you think he was trolling himself
I remember when Caelan hadn't even shown his face, now he's got a whole set for himself. My baby boy is becoming a man 🥲
Seriously, love how much you've grown the channel over the years. Keep up the good work.
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Ikr
@@learnmaths3329 Ikr
Caelan is a cool name, too.
Yeah I subbed at 10,000... a week later he had over tripled his subs and now here he is at almost a million
I climbed Mt.Stanley with my girlfriend, now wife, back in 1982. I've just been through my collection of diaries and letters to confirm this. In the same century it was first climbed. This is a little more encouragement to produce something of my two years traveling in Africa then (and the rest). Thank you Atlas Pro, I appreciate your work.
Did you being in Ethiopia and Algeria?
Have you ever thought about how amazing it is that people hundreds or even thousands of years ago drew such accurate maps of the world without satellite imagrie.
Well, they had a few misses here and there but the shape of the continents and countries in maps closer to the modern era is really similar to what we can see on google earth.
The oldest "maps" are only around 2K to 2.5K years old. Kind of recent when you think about it.
And they aren't accurate to terrain and don't have to be they show locations
This channel has been growing ever since. The fact he started showing his face might entail more in the future. For a geography nerd, this channel is a gold mine
Yeah. This channel is basically the inverse of a glacier.
same cant be said for the african glaciers
Yeah, let's hope he shows more than his face. I agree.
@@jtn81x Ditto
@@jtn81x bonk
Hey man, Im currently studying Geoscience in college along with a lot of biology/ecology modules and your videos have been fantastic at helping me with my work and for helping me learn more!
Also, I feel like the format is very helpful in learning how to structure thoughts and findings in a compelling way 🙌
these videos and a couple others saved my highschool advanced science classes😂 no way i’d pass without the goats who make this kind of content.
@@svntn mad respect goes out to them.
Yooo, same! I love being in class and already knowing a bunch of these things because of this and many other channels.
Haha I remember using the "When the Sahara was Green" video to help me write one of my 4th year papers (full credits ofc)!
Casting WonderWhy as David Livingstone was a genius move.
Contributions to the Nile are from all over the area. In Burundi, for example, tourists are guided to the source of the Nile and there is no question about the fact that the water eventually will reach the Nile.
“He got the attention of King Leopold II” nothing good ever comes from getting Leopold 2’s attention
I believe Leopold II is only surpassed by Hitler and Stalin for the being responsible for the most amount of death in history.
@@TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN Ghengis Khan and Mao Zedong killed more people the both Hitler and Stalin.
@@TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN to be honest "people killed by Stalin" estimates are often weird and exaggerated. Almost as if some people just count every person who died in USSR during 30-year Stalin rule due to any reason as "casualty of stalinist regime". This does nothing to highlight the real brutality of GULAG and nothing to honour memory of its real victims. Mostly used by people who want to blindly hate on USSR or excuse right-wing dictatorships by claiming left-wing dictatorships killed more. They want to prove their ideologies, not to learn what actually happened. There are also some tankies who just underestimate the number of victims, or excuse such brutality, like wtf. It is very hard to find objective estimates.
@@nathanahern2999 if we counted as a percentage of population probably many ancient/medieval rulers caused more deaths than 20th century ones. Only if we count numbers 20th century stands out, because the world population itself was much larger than before
@@KateeAngel No, Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward happened in the late 50’s and early 60’s which is after Hitler and Stalin. Here are the numbers:
Mao Zedong- 78mil
Genghis Khan- 40mil
Stalin- 23mil
Hitler- 17mil
Léopold II- 15mil
Ptolemy was the atlas pro of his time, brilliantly grandstanding, I love it
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he didn't really say which one though :p , there was actually an entire dynasty with that name.
@@Napoleonic_S Claudius Ptolemaeus. The Ptolemy. It was a common Greek name and while he was probably Roman, he’s absolutely the one everyone thinks of when you hear it. The Ptolemaic Dynasty is completely separate thing that shares what at the time was a pretty common name. Much like Alexander is still a common name, we all instantly know The Alexander
@@dmcgee3 Ptolemaeus was & is a Greek Family name/surname.
Alexander(Αλέξανδρος) is a first name. Don't mix them up.
Ibn Batutta
Caelan, you are an incredible story-teller. I'm always really impressed by how you script it all out, and the lesson of this video took me by surprise. I'm sharing this with the many faculty at my college interested in climate change. Thanks for your great work!
Lol! Please don’t ... it will be embarrassing. This guy gets a lot wrong... mostly about “climate change “, quite funny when he said”over 100 years of climate data” 😂... so funny. I encourage you to look into the weathering of the Sphinx ... climate changed all the time. Wake up! Or do you need a carbon tax? Haha
Yo I absolutely loved this video. The topic, stories, info, and how you presented them were great. I think this is my favorite since your Ice Age series and that's saying something. I'd definitely enjoy more videos in this sort of style, with some more classic Atlas Pro style vids continuing as well. Great job and I loom forward to the next journey!
I found this channel about a week ago, and now I'm just binging everything. this is some top quality stuff!
Gt
I did the same thing last year when I found it
I'm almost jealous! I wish I had that much new Atlas Pro videos to watch!
This was me last year!!!
Welcome to the AP family!
James May found the True Source of Nile™.
James May and two other blokes
Nice
I thought that as soon as I read the title
Hey i also covered the time-lapse of east Africa on my channel if you dont mind checking it out ua-cam.com/video/X3Zo22r_2T4/v-deo.html
@@fishingfan1500 me too
Honestly, this is the kind of story I have been missing from youtube for some time, at least on the geological side of things. Keep it up!!
I have to say, I know this is an old video, but it is still one of my absolute favorites of all time! This is my go to topic/story when I want to hook someone into talking about geography and history! Such a great channel, keep doing the amazing things, turning learning about our world and history into an engaging story!
Love the large amount of colouring pencils solidifying your position as a geographer.
Filling in the gaps in our knowledge with brightness and contrast.
He is an artist
15:10 he didn't claim it for Belgium and by extension himself, he claimed it for himself and by extension Belgium. It was only made actually Belgium's rather than simply his personal property a while later where even by the standards of the Belgians, who were probably the most brutal colonizers in the scramble for Africa, he was going too far and treating people too horribly. And honestly the fact that they had this line is in a way kind of worse than if they didn't. It's not just that they were so racist they convinced themselves Africans weren't even people, they just had so little care (or so much contempt) for these fellow human beings they were willing to treat them so brutally
He also used donations from humanitarian organizations that were supposedly being run to counter the East African slave trade around the Great Lakes to fund his expeditions in Africa in which natives were made to sign away their autonomy to him.
He almost made a purchased on the kingdom of Sarawak in Borneo. But luckily for the people there, the English king then, James Brooke who was the personal sovereign of the land has the foresight to ignore his offer.
Yep its like saying "Britain controlled the opium trade" is actually saying Queen Victoria got all the profits from getting China addicted to opium.
History = 'HIS' story.Usually unrelated to 'the truth'!
Someone just learn what "The Royalty" means
@@chippysteve4524 OK boomer. Keep saying cringe ahistorical truths and etymologies.
I just love you. I love the quality of the videos, i love your voice and entonation, i love the topics, i just love this channel so much. Really, thank you for putting thios much effort, i really enjoy your videos and look forward for them being posted. Also i like that you appear more on your videos, it gives them more of a personal touch, it's like seeing a painting tutorial vs a Bob Ross painting tutorial.
Been following the channel for a while and it is yet to disappoint me. Great work, just needed to say that.
Very much enjoyed this thorough video, and would very much love more like this. Maybe even a whole series about each continent’s longest and/or largest rivers and tributaries.
Thank you for the constant content as always!!
Nice addition to the quinine bit: they put it in a tonic at the time to make it more palatable, resulting in today's tonic water you can buy in the supermarket and mix with gin. Nowadays it still contains quinine.
They had to add sugar because Quinine is bitter af
also quinine is fluorescent, it glows under UV light, and so does tonic water.
Is that why the bottle of tonic water always says “contains quinine?” Cause of the quinine in it?
@@alberts8696 Are you sure that is a question? 😀
@@alberts8696 yeah, it’s the same Quinine
Here I thought I would watch a video about the Ethiopian Highlands and the Blue Nile for contributing with 85% of the Nile's water and 59% of Egypt's in particular.
I assume ancient egyotian and ethiopians knew about blue nile
This is a discovery of white nile by the explorers .. they also made a mistake by thinking white nile makes more volume than the blue
And they thought that white nile was the source and provided much more water
“Ptolemy was the Atlas Pro of his time”
This dude has ZERO trouble with his self esteem
Man, what a journey. Great video dude, that covered so many interesting aspects about this question!
This was a great journey. We started off with trying to solve a mystery, reframed the goal in terms of fighting injustice, succumbed to selfish desires, then accidentally stumbled across the answer to the mystery when we weren't looking for it, and it revealed clear evidence of how our selfish desires are shaping the future. Brilliant. Thank you for not shying away from addressing the serious evils and consequences of our actions even though the original question was a simple, seemingly unrelated one.
Nobody:
Random person on UA-cam: "Imperialism & Colonialism shaped the future. Brilliant."
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@@10DGjoHnSon it's not the revelation I thought was brilliant, but the delivery. I didn't know that the video was going to be about colonialism and climate change when I clicked on it, but as he went through the history, those were the stories that revealed themselves and made more of an impression on me than learning the location of the source of the Nile did.
Can we expect more island videos? Studying island biography and geography right now. I highly recommend researching Papua New Guinea, as it’s very interesting seeing how there is still much more to discover on the earth we live on. Anyways love the videos and good work! Keep it up!
Work at the national aviary I agree with the New Guinea statement
The Victorian Crown Pidgins (or discount peacocks as I call them) are a perfect example of island gigantism
and thats just tip of the iceburgh
We got one this week!
I've seen so many videos about the source of the Nile I almost didn't watch it. But I love your videos so I did. And I didn't regret it. You had so much more interesting information about it than anything I've seen about it before. I like the longer videos. Hell I'd watch full documentaries if you made them. Thanks for making great videos. One of my favourite UA-cam channels by far!
Excellent video with an excellent conclusion. Keep up the great work Caelan!
Everyone knows that "James May is the first to ever discover the source of the river nile™"
U beat me to it
@@Bhatakti_Hawas i didn't someone beat me to it but i just wrote it and changed it a bit and somehow got 28 likes
Yes indeed, Captain Slow is the one who found the true source of river nile
Honestly, whenever you upload, it automatically becomes a good day. I was really sad today but as soon as you uploaded, I became happy. This topic has always frustrated me as a geography nerd. Looking forward to seeing the video
haha
same
channels like this and real life lore are quite addictive
@@RomilGorka tbh this is in my binge worthy channels list
Like anyone sailing in a croc-infested river,you may want to look at taking responsibility for your own buoyancy ;-)
This was one of my favorite videos you've made. Keep it up!
Came for the stories and your relaxing voice. Left with an odd sense of amazement on how well paced you transitioned to a more urgent topic
I’d love to see more videos like this. It’s crazy how one question can have such a profound effect on the world.
I 100% agree! 😀 I am a history and geography nerd so to get both packed into one amazing story, and then add profesional and satisfying images (the way you do it) to get an good idea of what things look like, it all makes for one awesome video!
My question is "What happens if the Nile dries up?" because it certainly seems like that's a possibility from this video.
The “Mountains of the Moon” actually do exist. That is the other name for Mt. Rwenzori, located on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The name comes from the fact that the mountain is permanently snow-capped the whole year and from it's top runs streams that flow downwards converging to form one of the main tributaries of Lake Victoria from which the Victoria Nile starts. :)
চাঁদের পাহাড় is the famous Bengali novel on a fictional expedition here.
This is a fascinating connection
@The Imperishable Star Depends on where you're from. My people call it Nam Lolwe.
Yeah that's like.. the entire point of the video
@The Imperishable Star In Luganda, the traditional name is Lake Nalubaale
More info than I knew. I wasn't aware of Livingstone's thoughts on slavery.
You should get some sound absorbing foams in your room. It would greatly increase the audio quality! But great video as always!
This is one of your best video's so far: imagining the thrill of seeing all these new area's on an undocumented continent together with the brilliant illustration of the way the climate is heading... just wow!
Every ancient egyptian knew the source of the Nile River was in the heavens.
Mount Targon
And heaven is ethiopia
@@rediettadesse2828 Sudan
They knew Sudan was a country, it was called Kingdom of Kush, so no not Sudan
This is a top class video. Very sad with the problems of audio, but I think that this is one of your best videos. Amazing!
I was super impressed by all the areas of biology you covered in "why there are no penguins in the arctic" but with the history that you covered about the subject in this you really have outdone yourself
Started fof the source of Nile, ended up getting so sad fof our continent in particular. That was some content!
The drawing of Frederick Russel Burnham is actually of Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout movement.
Would love to see these kind of stories on Himalayan mountains and rivers! ❤️
i definitly want more of this topic and videos overall. i really love your vids!
I was wondering why you sound really like WonderWhy when reading that journal. Wow, it was really him.
So it's you who summoned WonderWhy back for his latest video.
This was a fun surprise. :D
amazing video! would love to see more videos like this containing the other 90% of information you found about this topic that didn't make it in this one. I also really liked the setup for this video, you sitting behind a desk/table really made it feel like you were a teacher and all of us your students :)
Thanks for the educational video. Impressive visuals and I like the attention to detail by getting the WonderWhy guy to read Livingstone's letter with Scottish accent. Little details matter the most. Keep up the excellent work.
Have enjoyed your content for quite a while, but you have stepped it up a notch. The production value and connections made are a joy to watch. Thanks for that! May beg you to pop in on my classes in Indonesia, I teach English in primary, but secondary levels need your passion! Sehat selalu.
An interesting subject yet again.
Keep up the good work!
Hey i also covered the time-lapse of east Africa on my channel if you dont mind checking it out i would really appreciate it so much ua-cam.com/video/X3Zo22r_2T4/v-deo.html
Absolutely want more videos like this.
In my opinion you've been killing it lately!
Im very glad i came across your channel. You present your content in a very interesting and engaging manner, it is clear to see, you care about the stuff you're talkin about. And the sources check out. Big thumps up. But I would suggest u contact a voice coach.
This is the second or third time I watched it and still enjoying it during last years, Thanks
Motaz from Sudan
This man really posting at 6am. Good thing I have to wake up for high school at 5:30am.
Good thing I have to wake up for work at 5:30am. Hope you have a good day at school!
Love the soundtrack and the narration. Memories of my 7th grade world geography class. Shout out to the sweathogs of Mr. Fairchilds geography gang!
Love your videos Caelan, wish you the motivation for much much more.
This was amazing
I remember when you were a small channel and now you're almost at 1 mil!
Anxiety, fear and insecurities. These are the sources of the Nile.
I'll see myself out...
Good. Don't come back.
If Livingstone didn't come back, how do we know whether Stanley actually found him?
Maybe he brought back something personal of Livingstone's.
Also, Livingstone himself makes note of the encounter in his journal which was recovered and returned to the UK after his death.
Also, Livingstone's black followers made an enormous effort to bring his body back to the UK so obviously they knew Stanley found him. There are even photos of them in the UK.
David Livingstone died from dysentery and malaria on 1 May 1873, at the age of 60, in Chief Chitambo's Village in North Rhodesia (now Zambia). His heart is buried in Africa, under a Mvula tree (now the site of the Livingstone Memorial), but his remains are buried at Westminster Abbey.
Amazing video! Loved the new format.
I liked this video so much I saw it twice. This is something I never do. I love to see you talking. Good job.
Me: *spots a million coloured pencils and artwork in the background...* Caelan! You draw! *smile*
I'm loving these tiny peeks into the man behind Atlas Pro. I live on your content and I enjoy your vids so much. Thank you so much for your hard work! Love from the Caribbean... hope I spelled your name right!
Funny that we got a video by Real Life Lore on the longest river about a week ago and now we got this one :D
Was just thinking this
Not only more of this kind of content, but also an extended version of this vid, please.
Great vid demonstrating the impact of global warming. I grew up in New Zealand and the same thing is happening to the glaciers there. Another photograhic source on the impacts of pollution has been the photos taken during the Covid pandemic, where clear blue skies from around the world where reported for the first time in some peoples living memory. The reason for the clear skies is mostly attributed to no car and truck movement. Unfortunately all those clear skies have gone again as we turned the engines back on.
Ptolemy the Atlas Pro of his time. Cracks me up every time!!
You should make more videos about Africa for sure, and maybe elaborate more on pre-European conquest Africa nd its cultures to give context for what has happened since (because I feel like that's never covered enough by anyone for some reason). I loved the video though, and definitely interesting to learn more about Livingston and Stanley was interesting because we only learned about them briefly in Highschool, and there was no mention of Livingston's reasons for being in Africa. I feel like your videos and other sources of free history content are very important for everyone's education with things like Texas's critical race theory bill (basically prevents teachers from talking about racial issues in history in any depth whatsoever) have been passed limiting the extent to which teachers can discuss historical events, and things like that effect more than just a single state as publishing companies have to change textbooks (which are the same ones sent to many other states) to fit these requirements. Basically what I'm saying is keep up the good work!
The Romans also explored Africa searching for the Nile's source. They wanted to know the reason behind the annual floodings. Emperor Nero sent an expedition, which came back to Rome years later with a great tale...
I don't wait for the video to even start before hitting like. That's how much I trust your videos are amazing.
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May found the source of the Nile years ago. In station wagons, nonetheless.
Only James May found it and there were his 2 of his followers that found it later
Technically they were estate cars as it's a British TV show.
Ew
Dilate
Right I need to correct you on a mistake you have in this video. The Congo was never under Belgium control, it was the exclusive "property" of Leopold, and it was in fact the Belgium government that put an end to his cruelty.
It was for a short period after Leopold’s deaths.
Your correction is incorrect, and even if it wasn't it wouldn't absolve the Belgians in any way
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At no point did they mention the role of Belgian people though.
Just found your channel. Really good content! Keep you the great work!
Love your content, please keep up the great work!
The quality of your content is getting better with every new video.
Is no one going to mention that he had some with a Scottish accent read out Livingstone's diary? That's some dedication
The earth was significantly warmer just a couple thousand years ago than it is today. Greenland used to be habitable and Vikings described Canada as warm.
"That Merchant Diagonies," is so funny it kills me every time he says it.
This video was so touching in the end when you talked about and showed visuals of loosing glaciers in Africa. We always associate Africa with Sahara desert and then grassland and rain forests but never with ice capped mountains and glaciers. Though we were introduced to them in the first half of video but later hit hard when you talked about climate impacts. It kinda same feeling which we got seeing the penguin video. Something triggered deep in me (it’s way way better than climate change sumit speeches) 👏👏👏
This is exactly why the climate change crap should have been left out of this video. Glaciers on mountains in Africa are a small snapshot in time when looking at global climate...
Great video! Btw. I would never judge the explorers or European hunger for the riches of Africa according to the modern standards - but I totally agree that Leopold II. was truly notorious supervillain - so evil that even the most greedy colonizers and rulers of his time called him evil when it came out what was actually happening in Congo. I was kind of shocked when I read about him.
Hi, I love your videos! I live in St. Maarten in the Caribbean, the Island is part of a pre-historic landmass, now submerged, which included Anguilla and St. Barths, called Greater St. Maarten. I have found very little information on this and thought I would mention it here, and hope someone covers it at some point. ☺
I would like to see more stories like this. Exploration and expeditions awakens wanderlust and wonder.
Great video, but is it perhaps possible to make a video on how you get all these beautiful maps in your videos. Google provides decent maps, but the ones you produce are so much more detailed!
The loss of glacial mass on the mountains of Africa is tied to decreased precipitation not an increase in temperature. It’s possible the decrease in precipitation is tied to anthropogenically induced climate change or it’s variability in multi-decadal oscillations that drive changes in the monsoon. I am an atmospheric scientist and can forward you some journal articles on the topic.
Very well done, as always. I would love to see you make a series on what loss of soils means for biogeography. Ref: David R. Montgomery Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization.
Thank you for this brilliant video, great work. Would surely love to see more information or video from you that you mentioned at the end of this vdo.
great video! i really appreciate that you have come to actively recognize and criticize colonization-if i recall correctly in one of you previous videos you literally said that the US took its current form once all the land had been "claimed by someone," completely erasing the countless indigenous nations and the wars and genocide employed to overtake the land-I'm glad that in this video you made it clear that the "golden age of exploration in africa" was colonization and exploitation as much as it was exploration.
My one criticism for this video is with your phrasing "scientific records"-science can be described as a process by which hypotheses are tested to determine information. Indigenous people may not have been keeping paper records, or practicing cartography on paper, but that doesn't mean indigenous people did not practice science or have cartographic information, just that their data and record-keeping methods were not known or were incompatible with European methods of cartography and record-keeping, forcing them to collect their data themselves.
in any case, great visuals, great script, and great message overall-keep up the good work!
C, this is, by far, the best video you’ve made all pandemic (even if you lost your voice part way through). It brings a critical, yet gentle, voice to the overwhelmingly western narrative of Africa in the last century, full of your signature factoids that make your maturing channel so interesting and watchable, culminating in a convoluted, sensical conclusion that kinda T-bones my train of thought. So yeah. Bump up the intensity of your message, even if you’re still formulating it half the time, and keep these kinds of videos coming.
Completely agree.
His channel was always good but this year's videos have been impressive.
I loved the 23 minute video. Thanks for the journey.
Dude, you are awesome! Great job as always!
"Ptolemy [...] was kinda like the Atlas Pro of his time" is a very clever way of claiming Atlas Pro is the modern Ptolemy lmao
First: Yes, I could see more of these kinds of videos!
Second: Does the disappearing of the glaciers gonna have a large effect in the Nile or other rivers like the Kongo? Or is there enough rain to sustain them?
Maybe some prediction reports.
Well, we have over 100 years of climate data, we know everything... 🤡
Probably enough other mountains and rain to support
I thought I heard the Nile survived before the ice age
I hope so, sounds likely
This needs to be a program on television or something. This is amazing.
Oh yes, many more videos like this please. Your documentary style has evolved into such a cool thing! I love the combination of geology/physical geography with history and with current events. Excellent stuff, love what you're doing.
I've watched 3 video's about this and I'm still excited to see your twist on it
Ptolemy may have been the Atlas Pro of his time but Caelan is the Atlas Pro of our times!
I think with this video you've mastered the production of bringing together your footage with the graphics with respect to the narrative of the video.
It made me much more immersed.
PS: shoulda mentioned the explorers who actually found the source of the Nile... Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond.
Remarkable piece of work! Congratulations