Hi, this was surprisingly accurate for a 12min long video. I actually spent 13 months in Port-aux-Français a few years ago. I came as a network admin but I also had to maintain seismology and magnetism equipment. There is no longer any greenhouse nor sheep. It's now forbidden because it's a natural reserve. I had the chance to hike to a lot of different places over the eastern part to work mainly with birds, seals, cats and plants. There are a lot of isolated shelters made of bits and bobs across the island. Sometimes it's a 12 hours walking trip split in 2 days. There are no tracks so you have to use gps and maps a lot. Terrain is really hard to walk and the weather too. It's mainly rocks and swampy terrain. We were 40 during 10 months (we only had 3 boats this year) and you actually make new friends and family there. The environment is mind blowing but the social experience is by far what changed me the most. The tourist path can be a bit deceiving, there is a lot of wait, it's horribly expensive and you only stay 2/4 days on each islands. Cheers
@@ailleurd Hi, kind of. There was something like two families sent in 1912 to live there with sheeps. It was at a place called Port Couvreux. I don't think they all died but it didn't end well. I've heard that they once received visit from a ship and one of the wife left with one of the crew ^^. I actually visited the place, the main building is fully closed but you can still sleep in the "sheep house". The old cemetery with fallen wooden cross is quiet a scenery and tell you it's not a place to settle. To go there it's a two days walk from the base, you really feel at the end of the world there. We were capturing cats to evaluate the population there. We stayed 10 days in this little cabin, the 3 of us. Simple life there, no coms, no running water nor electricity. 4 beds and an old plywood table burnt by candles ahah.
@@kugul1683 I've lost 95% of my pictures due to hard disk failure. But I had the chance to recover the ones from Port-Jeanne-d'Arc where there was the "whale industry" and the ones from Port-Couvreux.
@@julm7744 Sheeps were located on a small island in the gulf, cats are all over the place. It would be quiet impossible to exterminate them from the main land. They do kill them now in certain location where cats eat baby Albatros tho. The debate was more like, why getting ride of the sheeps, they were eating the imported grass that grow on this island. Now no more sheep and this particular grass is blooming in the gulf. The "harm" by the sheep is already done. In the end it's mostly politic like usual :(
my granduncle was part of the first expedition to ever climb on mount ross, the highest point on the island at 1850m above sea level in 1975, it was the last remaining french mountain unexplored by humans
Fun fact: The little number of insect species living on those islands all have tiny, usless wings. It's thought that it's an adaptation to the insane average wind speeds, as normal winged insects would be blown out to sea and die.
Very interesting 🤔 what a strange adaptation. makes me think those wind speeds must be hard to live with, I wonder what standard a Kerguelen storm/hurricane/tornado must be like twice as bad as what the norm is
@@urgiduurrgghh5842 Yep there is a fly without wing which lives in cabbage, it's called Anatalanta Aptera go check it out ^^, the most wind we had was around 170km/h I wonder what was the max recorded. Antarctica stations has some crazy storm too !
adding this to my list of criminally underrated and well produced channels. keep on the grind, you'll make it for sure. edit [9/20/22]: this channel had like 700 subs or soemthing when i said this and now it has 23k wtf, deserved. good luck with your future content!
This comment caused me to subscribe before the video loaded. Maybe I shouldn’t take the opinion of random strangers on the Internet at face value… but it worked out in this case!
That was a great video btw, loved the intro and the “potentially unique environments you’ll get to smoke cigs in” it was well researched, idk how your trucking videos blew up so fast that’s awesome, but I wished you explained in your video between European and American trucks why there aren’t any real trucks with beds in Europe.
Ahaha the intro as a real french from France who is regurlarly eating big wheel of cheese was very funny. Very interesting video didn't know the history behind this piece of land. +1 sub
my brother is a scientist who will go to this island this winter for a 14 mouth mission. I'm very jealous, i think it will be the experience of a lifetime.
Being a kid that grew up on this island but always felt like an outsider (My parents are from Madrid and I don't speak Catalan), this was an outstandingly refreshing account for the history of the island. I love this place for its nature, history and cuisine, and although I love Balearic music and tourism is pretty much singlehandedly driving the economy of the island, I hope that its rich history is not forgotten. I walk through the Arabic water irrigation system of Ses Feixes on a daily basis, and it is kept in an outrageous state, full of trash and with overgrown vegetation. Videos like this are a massive help in educating the inhabitants of the island to appreciate and respect its rich history. I really appreciate your work.
Did nobody else notice the hilariously sophomoric easter eggs on the airline tickets at 0:39? 😂 Also: the picture of John Nunn at 8:01 looks like it was drawn by Napoleon Dynamite 😅 Great video.
I like how they went 100% on the naming conventions on the island, on google maps you can see they have a road 66, a lake of the fellowship of the ring, etc
There was an occupation by settlers with shepherds . They all asked to come back to La Réunion . They consider that it was like Féroé Islands , hence settled down there . Jean Paul Kaufman who had been a hostage in Lebanon visited them as a recovery travel after he was released and wrote a book about Kerguelen and his experience over there .
Thank you, c’est très bien, very good done in a few time. Kerguelen seem beautiful. ...I’m waiting for new video, which make me dream. Merci et à bientôt.
@@nit11 no. he makes these videos in his "stu" for "private purposes" (as he says). he doesn't know I know about his videos, so I sneak them off of his thumb drive (he has one he wears on a necklace) while he sleeps. i'm not sure why he makes them 🤷
Well done! I can see why you say this took you a long time to put together. Anyway, trips for tourists have been on hold since the pandemic. One of the world's most expensive regularly-scheduled destination.
Isla de Hornos in Chile is also very expensive, and you can have the bad luck to not be able to set foot on this island due to harsh climate, making you spend 3k more dollars to try again.
Hi just a shout for the examplary way you present measurements both in metric and imperial. If only all others did it the way you do it too... This should be the standard! Oh, and a brilliant vid too. Enjoyed it. +1sub
There is a doco on Capt Cook "The incredible true story of the World's Greatest Navigator and Cartographer" well worth a watch. He basically circumnavigated Antarctica twice in his life time as well as a bunch of other amazing stuff. Really enjoyed this one, I'd heard of those islands but knew nothing about them, cheers.
Very interesting story, thank you for doing a video on the Kerguelen islands! As a teenager I read the book about "Atlantis" (the German cruiser you mentioned) and was interested in this forgotten piece of land ever since. Never found much material about it, so I still read and watch everything that has to do with them. And although it does border on science-fiction: I think should the climate change drastically, then one day places like Greenland, Severnaya Semlya and the Kerguelen could become habitable land.
Other FYI : Kerguelen is actually a Briton name, from the westernmost region of France, also called Brittany (Bretagne in french) where I live btw. So this is not a french name but Celtic name, and it is funny to see such an old and forgotten piece of the history still being here in middle of the Indian ocean.
@@theplayer12312 it would require any sort of permanant settlers to go there in the first place, as it is its litteraly just a random big rock where nature scientist come to jerk of isolated without going all the way to antartica ^^
I really like this video, it is indeed very interesting. I say that being a French /New-Caledonian, and I was surprised that the main island of Les Îles Kerguelen has the same name as our main island :)
No one notices the continent it's pretty much like zealandia there's also another example of this in the Falklands in out in the Indian Ocean where Madagascar
I wonder if someone had their own boat and was crazy enough, if they would be allowed to sail to the Kerguelen islands. Save the 9k on a cabin like geez.
Magnifique mais il serait temps d'y installer en plus des militaires et scientifiques de façon permanente des citoyens, des Bretons par exemple, capables de résister au froid et aux vents, installer des éoliennes, des ruches, y élever des moutons, planter des arbres...
Such a packed video of information in 12 mins fabulous to watch. I've arrived here through a channel on YT called Thomas Festler Disclosure tonight! ? Anyone that's visited these islands seen a UFO or a uap or a uso (unidentified submerged object?) at all? 🙏👀Up the chanel they talk science all the time it's great
The weather is to shit according to some scientists that lives there The Doctor make a video conference with some High quality Doctors in France and that is how they deal with these problems
Hilarious intro. The only thing missing was to show they ignored everyone else on their journey who was wasn't French and refused to speak to them not because they didn't speak English but because they didn't speak French.
Hi, this was surprisingly accurate for a 12min long video. I actually spent 13 months in Port-aux-Français a few years ago. I came as a network admin but I also had to maintain seismology and magnetism equipment. There is no longer any greenhouse nor sheep. It's now forbidden because it's a natural reserve. I had the chance to hike to a lot of different places over the eastern part to work mainly with birds, seals, cats and plants. There are a lot of isolated shelters made of bits and bobs across the island. Sometimes it's a 12 hours walking trip split in 2 days. There are no tracks so you have to use gps and maps a lot. Terrain is really hard to walk and the weather too. It's mainly rocks and swampy terrain. We were 40 during 10 months (we only had 3 boats this year) and you actually make new friends and family there. The environment is mind blowing but the social experience is by far what changed me the most. The tourist path can be a bit deceiving, there is a lot of wait, it's horribly expensive and you only stay 2/4 days on each islands. Cheers
Merci, de partager vôtre extraordinaire expérience, I think there was a family who try to live on the island with sheeps, but all died ? Is it true ?
@@ailleurd Hi, kind of. There was something like two families sent in 1912 to live there with sheeps. It was at a place called Port Couvreux. I don't think they all died but it didn't end well. I've heard that they once received visit from a ship and one of the wife left with one of the crew ^^. I actually visited the place, the main building is fully closed but you can still sleep in the "sheep house". The old cemetery with fallen wooden cross is quiet a scenery and tell you it's not a place to settle. To go there it's a two days walk from the base, you really feel at the end of the world there. We were capturing cats to evaluate the population there. We stayed 10 days in this little cabin, the 3 of us. Simple life there, no coms, no running water nor electricity. 4 beds and an old plywood table burnt by candles ahah.
Do you have some photos?
@@kugul1683 I've lost 95% of my pictures due to hard disk failure. But I had the chance to recover the ones from Port-Jeanne-d'Arc where there was the "whale industry" and the ones from Port-Couvreux.
@@julm7744 Sheeps were located on a small island in the gulf, cats are all over the place. It would be quiet impossible to exterminate them from the main land. They do kill them now in certain location where cats eat baby Albatros tho. The debate was more like, why getting ride of the sheeps, they were eating the imported grass that grow on this island. Now no more sheep and this particular grass is blooming in the gulf. The "harm" by the sheep is already done. In the end it's mostly politic like usual :(
my granduncle was part of the first expedition to ever climb on mount ross, the highest point on the island at 1850m above sea level in 1975, it was the last remaining french mountain unexplored by humans
Thats neat!
Fun fact: The little number of insect species living on those islands all have tiny, usless wings. It's thought that it's an adaptation to the insane average wind speeds, as normal winged insects would be blown out to sea and die.
That is an excellent fact, thanks!
Very interesting 🤔 what a strange adaptation.
makes me think those wind speeds must be hard to live with, I wonder what standard a Kerguelen storm/hurricane/tornado must be like twice as bad as what the norm is
@@urgiduurrgghh5842 Yep there is a fly without wing which lives in cabbage, it's called Anatalanta Aptera go check it out ^^, the most wind we had was around 170km/h I wonder what was the max recorded. Antarctica stations has some crazy storm too !
adding this to my list of criminally underrated and well produced channels. keep on the grind, you'll make it for sure.
edit [9/20/22]: this channel had like 700 subs or soemthing when i said this and now it has 23k wtf, deserved. good luck with your future content!
Here before 100k
This comment caused me to subscribe before the video loaded. Maybe I shouldn’t take the opinion of random strangers on the Internet at face value… but it worked out in this case!
@@Smuffez same haha
That was a great video btw, loved the intro and the “potentially unique environments you’ll get to smoke cigs in” it was well researched, idk how your trucking videos blew up so fast that’s awesome, but I wished you explained in your video between European and American trucks why there aren’t any real trucks with beds in Europe.
You need a Faroe Islands video! It doesn’t matter if it’s trucking or just geography. As long as it’s about the Faroe islands, i’m interested!
When you said wind, the first thought in my Wyoming brain said "Ill be the judge of that". then avarage 68mph year round "yup thats wind"
Ahaha the intro as a real french from France who is regurlarly eating big wheel of cheese was very funny. Very interesting video didn't know the history behind this piece of land. +1 sub
my brother is a scientist who will go to this island this winter for a 14 mouth mission. I'm very jealous, i think it will be the experience of a lifetime.
Awesome! I just found this place cruising google earth. It looks very intriguing.
How was it for him?
Being a kid that grew up on this island but always felt like an outsider (My parents are from Madrid and I don't speak Catalan), this was an outstandingly refreshing account for the history of the island. I love this place for its nature, history and cuisine, and although I love Balearic music and tourism is pretty much singlehandedly driving the economy of the island, I hope that its rich history is not forgotten. I walk through the Arabic water irrigation system of Ses Feixes on a daily basis, and it is kept in an outrageous state, full of trash and with overgrown vegetation. Videos like this are a massive help in educating the inhabitants of the island to appreciate and respect its rich history. I really appreciate your work.
wrong island
I think youre on the wrong video pal
Did you mean to comment this on the Ibiza video?
How do you not have more views/subscribers?! This is so high quality!!!
I've always been curious about these islands. Thanks for the video! Your channel is criminally underrated
Surprisingly funny and surprisingly informative and well edited for a video found by YouTubing some remote island I randomly saw on a map
No idea who did the speech bubbles in French but they're pretty hilarious! gg fréro !
Did nobody else notice the hilariously sophomoric easter eggs on the airline tickets at 0:39? 😂
Also: the picture of John Nunn at 8:01 looks like it was drawn by Napoleon Dynamite 😅
Great video.
Lol I love your observations hahaha
I like how they went 100% on the naming conventions on the island, on google maps you can see they have a road 66, a lake of the fellowship of the ring, etc
Seems like a perfect opportunity to use windpower for the inhabitants
It was tried but it ended with a wind turbine on the ground, the winds are too violent there and not steady enough.
I saw these islands on Google maps and was very curios. You did a great job on the video and now I’m subscribed!
There was an occupation by settlers with shepherds . They all asked to come back to La Réunion . They consider that it was like Féroé Islands , hence settled down there .
Jean Paul Kaufman who had been a hostage in Lebanon visited them as a recovery travel after he was released and wrote a book about Kerguelen and his experience over there .
As a french person, this is an excellent video to watch and I admire the work you put in. You got one sub ^^
Thank you, c’est très bien, very good done in a few time. Kerguelen seem beautiful. ...I’m waiting for new video, which make me dream. Merci et à bientôt.
very underrated youtube channel
What is this channel? Are these stolen videos
yes. i steal them from my uncle.
@@Yukon. I'm keeping my eye on you
Your uncle is a fantastic creator. Can I subscribe to his channel?
@@nit11 no. he makes these videos in his "stu" for "private purposes" (as he says). he doesn't know I know about his videos, so I sneak them off of his thumb drive (he has one he wears on a necklace) while he sleeps. i'm not sure why he makes them 🤷
@@Yukon. what program you use to make the animations and stuff? Is it just Adobe?
5:42
_"NO, MY CABBAGES!"_
- Cabbage Merchant ("The King of Omashu")
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well done! I can see why you say this took you a long time to put together. Anyway, trips for tourists have been on hold since the pandemic. One of the world's most expensive regularly-scheduled destination.
Isla de Hornos in Chile is also very expensive, and you can have the bad luck to not be able to set foot on this island due to harsh climate, making you spend 3k more dollars to try again.
Nice video, I look forward to more videos like this when you run out of countries to talk about trucks in.
loved this video, didn't expect it to only have 600 views! good job man, new sub
Great video - but the feral cats would be the descendants, not ancestors, of ship cats.
You said “De zeeuwse nachtegaal” really good!! 😄😄👍👍👍
Yeah he nailed the only dutch name in the video after missing almost all the french one, including the place he was talking about.
Hi just a shout for the examplary way you present measurements both in metric and imperial. If only all others did it the way you do it too... This should be the standard!
Oh, and a brilliant vid too. Enjoyed it. +1sub
“I’d like for you to imagine, if you will, that you’re French”
Me, being British: *violently vomits*
Hahahahaha 👍🏻👍🏻🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭🤣
Violently vomits after finding out im british
@@cesruhf2605 That’ll be all the binge drinking, you need to build up your alcohol tolerance if you’re going to survive!
@@Jo3man96 my stomach exploding from all the alcohol
Very interesting video. Très bonne vidéo ! wp
Entièrement d'accord!
Wait, your channel is great! I'm subscribing right now!
You have earned a subscriber with such quality content!
Absolutely brilliant video, keep up the great work!! :)
incredibly underrated, good job
cmon, we all know that’s limberwisk
There is a doco on Capt Cook "The incredible true story of the World's Greatest Navigator and Cartographer" well worth a watch. He basically circumnavigated Antarctica twice in his life time as well as a bunch of other amazing stuff. Really enjoyed this one, I'd heard of those islands but knew nothing about them, cheers.
Very interesting story, thank you for doing a video on the Kerguelen islands! As a teenager I read the book about "Atlantis" (the German cruiser you mentioned) and was interested in this forgotten piece of land ever since. Never found much material about it, so I still read and watch everything that has to do with them.
And although it does border on science-fiction: I think should the climate change drastically, then one day places like Greenland, Severnaya Semlya and the Kerguelen could become habitable land.
Should have used the term Descendants for the cats. Ancestors are their forefathers.
Cool stuff mate
5:27 Descendants not ancestors.
Super awesome video, very well scripted and informative.
Fun fact, there are other Desolation islands in Chile located far away from the south American continent. They're like smaller Kergelen islands
Saint Paul Amsterdam, & the Corzet islands are volcanic in origin. Some of them are still active.
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super interesting!! just found your channel, these videos are great. keep it up and you'll blow up in no time
that was dope :D
Love the direction of this channel
Now that was some quality production..
Good video and good timing! I found out about Kerguelen just a few days ago when it was the location of the day on Worldle
Great content man, hope to see more like this!
I don't know but it seems like a cold and windy hell to live (or stay there longer periods) despite the interesting nature.
Well, at least they have a hot spot.
I wince every time I hear kerGOOlen
FYI: It's actually pronounced "Kergellen" (with a hard g) and not "Kergoolen."
Other FYI : Kerguelen is actually a Briton name, from the westernmost region of France, also called Brittany (Bretagne in french) where I live btw. So this is not a french name but Celtic name, and it is funny to see such an old and forgotten piece of the history still being here in middle of the Indian ocean.
@@brewen_lmrch To me it is more like The Afro-Australian Indian Ocean. (AAIO).
Those ilands are under rated
If Kerguelen ever gets independence, their French accent will still be similar to the one back in Paris but with a little twist.
yea, like it'll be self-sustainable in the first place
@@theplayer12312 it would require any sort of permanant settlers to go there in the first place, as it is its litteraly just a random big rock where nature scientist come to jerk of isolated without going all the way to antartica ^^
I am shocked at how good this video is because the view count and subscribers should be in the hundreds of thousands
This is such a Wes Anderson story
Thanks.
WHERE ARE THE TRUCKS
I really like this video, it is indeed very interesting. I say that being a French /New-Caledonian, and I was surprised that the main island of Les Îles Kerguelen has the same name as our main island :)
Hi, fellow caledonian
@@313_B salut à toi monf
climbing mont ross actuallybhas been a live goal of mine for years now
7:00 I think I've seen that in a book before.
Yeah!
Nice vid!
3:58 you forgot the Rolling 60s
Clicked on this video wondering why these islands were using the Argentinian Football Asociation logo
There is no way you only have about 2k. UA-cam must’ve forgotten the 2 other 0s at the back
*14 k two weeks later
TIME TRAVELLING CATS ARE THE ANCESTORS...
nice
I am sure as a linguist that when you speak at such a frantic pace that little is absorbed or remembered !
WHY ARE ALL THE SHOPS IN NEW ZELALND, THAT GENERAL STORE IS SOME DAIRY, AND ITSINTERIOR IS A FARMERS
0:02 - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OH NO OH NO OH NO YOU CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS
No one notices the continent it's pretty much like zealandia there's also another example of this in the Falklands in out in the Indian Ocean where Madagascar
Hmm, wouldn't have guessed that it's pronounced Ker-goo-lin!
And Wordle did this a couple days ago! Funny coincidence.
I wonder if someone had their own boat and was crazy enough, if they would be allowed to sail to the Kerguelen islands. Save the 9k on a cabin like geez.
You've earn a new subscriber!
(And why would I want to kiss men on the lips during my vacation?)
the real question is why wouldn't you?
Looks like a fine place to build penitentiary buildings!
Hey it's usefull Kergelen islands.
2 years and 3 months marooned in basically a different planet. Haha 😅
No wonder that other guy took his mistress.
basically the gers
Magnifique mais il serait temps d'y installer en plus des militaires et scientifiques de façon permanente des citoyens, des Bretons par exemple, capables de résister au froid et aux vents, installer des éoliennes, des ruches, y élever des moutons, planter des arbres...
The island looks like a lobster.
Ohh, I know this place from the great and immortal Louis de Funés!
i can't live in a place without any trees
Did you mean with out any trees?
5:50 so there's an ocean in the middle of the antarctic? lol
I'm entertained
Such a packed video of information in 12 mins fabulous to watch.
I've arrived here through a channel on YT called Thomas Festler Disclosure tonight!
? Anyone that's visited these islands seen a UFO or a uap or a uso (unidentified submerged object?) at all? 🙏👀Up the chanel they talk science all the time it's great
why would they not build an airport ??? what if they need emergency evac ??? what if it is life and death ??? do they just have to wait for a boat
The weather is to shit according to some scientists that lives there
The Doctor make a video conference with some High quality Doctors in France and that is how they deal with these problems
40 ruggenti, i 50 sono urlanti non furiosi !
10:04 "Ou puis-je aller pour embrasser de hommes ?" X) why
Hilarious intro. The only thing missing was to show they ignored everyone else on their journey who was wasn't French and refused to speak to them not because they didn't speak English but because they didn't speak French.
Being french, I m imagining very hard behind even frenchier
i feel like a fucking idiot today
Forgot the Antarktic Not-Zs.
Basically French Falkland Islands
South Indian Ocean not Antarctic