Surtsey, the Birth of an Island | The Volcanic Island Turned 50 (HD 1080p)
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Iceland experiences volcanic eruptions every five years on average, and is one of the Earth’s most active volcanic areas. All islands there were created by volcanic eruptions about 5.000 years ago.
Only Surtsey, the most southern island, is younger. The island was formed after a volcanic eruption in 1963, and was already protected as a natural conservation area during its formation. For the 50th birthday of Surtsey, a TV-Team was allowed to visit the island and reports what the biologists and geologists could observe during the past century.
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I am always happy to be the exact same age as Surtsey- Born November 14, 1963.
The same planks time?
I was sailing on-board old "Gullfoss" comming from Copenhagen to Reykjavik at the time (1963) and we passed the Surtsey eruptions on the 3day it's something one never forgets.. Absolutely major magnificent.. 💕✌😎💕🍃🌍🍃💕
Hjordis Torfa, Easter 1965, There was a volcanic eruption on Surtsay, Close to Vestminair, I was 2nd Mate on the 750 tone Trawler Ardbacker out of Akereery Iceland, We ran our net for 6 hours or more in front of the eruption, causing up and down, I was a new hand, I think the Skipper was testing my net mending, Early in the morning we took on ice in Vestminair and took off to go fishing in Greenland for 12 days, Small catch 20 or 30 tones, I was in Vancouver Canada when Mt St-Helns erupted in the 1980s, That was some 200 miles away, That was close enough.
You are a very blessed person to have witnessed that!✌️🌋
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I studied geology at Stockholm University between 1963 and 1967 .
I remember how Surtsey island was formed during those years.
Thank you for this video !!
tell them about the weather also
,to think this island is 50 years old,i remember the news man shouting to the pilot ,turn left ,some thing is happening in the sea , and Surtsey was being born!! it was a great news story ,i will allways remember it ,and now this year its 50, and is showing how our planet ,moves forward!
This literally gave me goosebumps
I am older than this piece of land by five days. Since learning about Surtsey when I was about ten years old, I have wanted to see it. I finally caught a glimpse of it on a clear day while flying into Keflavik from Frankfurt.
Watching this makes the Old Norse myths of the creation of life by the battle of Ice and Fire giants almost a reality....sooooooo immensely awe-inspiring!
Remarkable how much myth and science matches up when you change a few nouns.
Hilarious to note that Surtsey is named after the fire giant Surt, despite the fact that it is an island that is only "recently" born
I remember our teacher in 3rd grade plyed a movie of Surtsey forming and we had to write an essay. It was the most amazing thing I had ever seen (at that advanced age).
It's almost like being on a different planet. Incredible how life thrives in harsh conditions.
😅😂🤣😂😅😂👍
That’s so awesome to see the history about this newly formed island. Iceland is always expanding itself with these constant eruptions 😆
Hi handsome
This is really nice to watch a island grow .
The way mother nature gives birth to an island with all that volcanic eruption is similar to what mothers go through during labour with all the contractions and delivery pain
And the smoke, ash and lava shooting out everywhere?
But sadly the specific volcanic arc typically forms Monogenetic Volcanoes(Volcanoes that erupt once and never erupt again) meaning Surstey may never erupt again
Right? On a geological scale, Surtsey is still an infant, not even a toddler. Just a loud, brash, constantly changing chunk of rock in the open sea. I am fascinated to see how the island develops, because the volcano is still very much active. Birds will likely bring in vegetation and spores from pants, and learning about how the plant and animal life develops will be an exciting discovery.
love the old geezer who is older than those hills LITERALLY xx
5:50 is Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek. Superb album too.
To think some people are older than a piece of land now
they always have been if they are now
Majestic Sunset everyone was older than this island for a minute in 1967. Far fewer now.
In mind and spirit! I am 5biliion yrs old.
In Body🌺🌋 Surtsey is older than me🌺
I'm older than that island. I was 9 years old when it first erupted. I remember seeing photos and films of it at the time.
I know I was just thinking that.
Extremely appropriate use of the music of Sígur Rós.
Nice to see patches of plants speckling the barren land. There are several stages of plant succession of new land, and Surtsey is being closely monitored to see how fast and far this goes. First specialist grasses and other plants of sandy dunes arrive, then a shrub & pioneer tree stage of willows & birch follows, then - if conditions allow - pines, then oaks, then beeches and maples, for example.
The natural climax vegetation of the lowlands of Iceland are shrubby birch and willow forest, most of which were cut down 100s of years ago (the barren land of Iceland today is not natural). There are still a few groves of very pretty birch woods surviving in some sheltered valleys. Surtsey is still at the first stage, however. A gull colony has started and that has sped things up. Sea sandwort is the most common higher plant now, sending down deep roots and forming raised 'hummocks' that stabilise and fertilise the ground, preparing the land for other plants to establish in future. Fascinating!
I remember the year when Surtsey broke though, it put that much steam and ash into the ozone layer and above, we had our coldest winters that lasted right into the 70s, 1963 was the year of the long snow winter and 1968 was the year of the great blizzard south coast
Those weather events had nothing to do with surtsey. The eruption in Tonga this year was 10x the size and even that had only a very tiny effect. Eruptions like this actually warm the planet unlike most other types. Steam is a greenhouse gas.
@@toby1248 You are wrong, it had every thing to do with Surtsey, Steam turns into crystals and reflects sunlight also Surtsey is a high sulphur content volcano, Steam is only a green house gas if in the troposphere, once it's above the Ozone, it is the opposite
@@southerneruk surtsey was a comparatively tiny volcano regardless of what you think its gases would do. Why are we not seeing climate chaos this year after the hundreds of times bigger eruption from Hunga Tonga?
@@toby1248 and you are missing the main point about Surtsey, it was a new volcano and it being small do not indicate the amount of power it had, Surtsey when it broke through the surface of the sea, it pushed tons of salt water steam into and above the Ozone layer. Hunga Tonga is a colder volcano where it is caused by conduction of plates, Surtsey is a lot hotter because it is created by the Earth Mantle. And as for Hunga Tonga, it's still early days for that one, it is below the tropics line, so its effects will be spread out. Surtsey is not, so it will affect be concentrated, the effects of Surtsey was felt right into the 70s
@@southerneruk pretty much every word of that is bollocks. Its not worth engaging with you, you're clearly not going to be convinced. I regret trying to educate you.
Love Iceland! Can't wait till September for my 3rd trip there!
Remember learining abkut Surtsey in Geography when I was about 10 years old, nice to see something about it on UA-cam.
Watching this makes one realize what an awesome God to create Islands out of a mountain.
Scenes of this island make me think of what the earth looked like three billion years ago...
I came to know about Surtsey island while reading the book “ Eat,poop, die” by Joe Roman .
I immediately search for videos . I could visualize his narratives after watching this one. Thanks a lot.
Why is the FBI at my house.
As an icelandic person the butchering of names is hilarious
All your inbreeding will do that.
@@jsmcguireIII what do you mean inbreeding? If you meant iceland is just inbred people you would be dead wrong, we used to watch out for inbreeding by going to villages from villages
@@jongunnar1762 oh wow that's very interesting.
@@jongunnar1762 don't you guys have a special app on your phones to make sure you aren't related to a person you want to date? just asking about something I heard once.
@@demonickiller6315 no, its just called íslendingabók which translates to icelandicbook and you can see ypur ancestors and who your cousin is on it, its not used for checking for inbreeding its just like ancestry or familytree nothing more
A small correction to the introduction: Eyjafjallajökull did not erupt, it was the volcano under it which erupted. Eyjafjallajökull is a glacier (jökull = glacier). But no worries, most journalists got this wrong too.
May the Aesir and Vanir bless and keep the Icelanders, what a lovely bunch of people.
In 1964, Lt Jon Hall, USN, Adm. Paul D. Buie’s Aide, took a few of us staff members on a flight over Surtsey. The active eruption had subsided greatly. Lt Hall turned the C-47 to the right as we flew over the new island and we were looking directly into the crater. It was an exciting flight for those of us who followed the creation of the isle.
4:07 I thought she was bringing lunch.
😂😂
"Not many plant species can survive in the long run so close to the arctic circle..." Look at the north of the Nordic countries; I'd say it's pretty hospitable and full of plants. People think the artic circle is this extreme thing.
4:10 looked like she was bringing out cake
@18:37 "Amino acids are part of DNA." Someone didn't check this one. Amino acids are indirectly made from DNA, but they are not part of DNA. DNA is made up of nucleic acids not amino acids.
I was looking for this comment.
well technically histidines, the thing that holds dna together and basically allows transcriptors to access certain dna sites, are a protein and many proteines have sites that attach completely to dna and regulate things that are made so it's more of a dna-protein hybrid than just pure dna, atleast in living cells
but yeah they should know better, just gotta flex since I got into biochem ;) hehe
4:06 I thought she was bringing snacks...
Is it possible for an island to emerge out of the sea within a couple of days?
Nature is amazing
if they have planes flying over the island, what makes them think someone might not be tempted to drop seeds?
I remember reading about the birth of Surtsey in National Geographic magazine.
I also remember the National Geographic article about the eruption on Heimaey in 1973. There was a photo of a 1958 Chevrolet partly buried in volcanic cinders. I wondered how an American car had ended up there in the first place.
@@hebneh we have a ferry that goes from the mainland of Iceland to Heimey, the ferry has a special parking compartment where cars drive in and are ferried away. It takes about 40 minutes to get there
@@IAOIceland1984 I was wondering why someone would have bought an oversized and expensive American car in the first place back in 1958, instead of a smaller and less expensive European one.
@@hebneh some icelanders really like cars and the harsh winter weather conditions make bulkier cars more viable outside of Reykjavík as well as in Reykjavík during blizzards. If you wanna reliably be able to travel on country roads you kinda need a jeep, to be honest
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Amazing
Great/ thanks for Post!!
so, how do creationists explain this? Creationists pretend the Earth is just 6000 years old and has NEVER changed since its creations, it looks exactly the same, its surface never changes! But here you can see for yourself that Earth is changing continiously!
It is pointless to argue, all we can do is better educate the next generations
fascinating
I still remember me this, because i went on vacation to Turkey together with a friend. Normally i would go in April, but i could not go because of this so i went in june. Anyway maybe better because the weather was then better in Turkey.
It's like there's no such thing as an ecological balance - there was nothing and now there's something, new plants & creatures where there were none. Interesting to see what will develop on the island in the future.
verfed also that there was no need of millions of year for a new land to have its own ecosystem.....
verfed
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Millions of years are needed for it to be diverse and resilient. Million years from now that island could become diverse like the amazon. It will likely need a population of nesting seabirds living there along time, high cliffs eroded down in that time also.
Well if it lasts that long. Apparently the lava rock is protecting the landform it once it wears away it will only last about a century.
Strange feeling: I was born in 1957 and I'm looking at a documentary about an _island_ that is younger than me!
WE planned to go today but it was too stormy...
My company just shipped out all equipment today to go drill into Surtsey for volcanic, biologic, geologic, and economic research! Follow us to see what happens over the next 3 months out there.
How'd it go?
I am Montagnard jarai tribe i found this video to interesting
That's admirable from the icelandic people. If it was someplace else, it would already have a hotel, nightclub and RedBull flags everywhere.
For real 👍 even an "Air BNB" 🤣😂
Damn it can be hard to listen to the commentator say Eyjafjallajökull like a robot
Brennistein immediately starting was the icing on the cake
Nice bit of nostalgia for me- I lived on the main island for 2 years 25 years ago, such a beautiful place. Agree with Icelanders re awful pronunciation of place names!
I spent 18 months at Keflavik back in the mid-50's Is that small town to the left, closest to the water called Grindavik? a fishing village? At least nothing happened while i was there. I did enjoy the weather though.....................not HOT at all highest i saw one day was 72 degrees and a couple cold blizzard days Jan 1958 winds over 100 mph that was FUN.....Not now though lol
I’m all down with the jazzy porn music, but it’s kinda overkill but appreciate the effort, but that island is goldmine for knowledge.
Has the nature , composition and structure of of the lava , rocks and soils changed from those of main land Iceland ?
What a shame you spent 15 minutes of this video talking about the island, but only 4-5 minutes actually showing yourselves on the island... The ratio should have been the other way.
It's a documentary, not a vlog.
I was really enjoying this video until they got something so fundamentally wrong, I am now wondering about the geological portion of the report. Amino acids (minute 18:38) are NOT part of DNA. They are the basic components of proteins. Even my high school biology students MUST know this.
Three nucleotides encode an amino acid. Proteins are built from a basic set of 20 amino acids.
Right. Encode, not Form. It would be like saying the written recipe on the paper is part of the cake. They are molecular instructions.
God Nature is so scary!! 😨 but also beautiful at the same time 🙏
This feels like a typical Japanese documentary from NHK. No individual presenter and the narrator refers to the documentary team a lot; we, our etc
Why was the tomato plant taken off? It might not be native. But, it’s how a plant spreads. Human intervention isn’t really a threat in some cases. Humans are like birds afterall
Primary succession at its best!
Wow this video is educational
2:58 : A 10 METER!!!!!! high column of steam?
Volcanoes man. You don't even need that big of a volcanic eruption to get an eruption column higher than the clouds. Compared to that, a steam column of 10 meters is nothing.
Almost certainly a mistake. Probably meant 10 km. Someone should have checked the script so that this and the error about amino acids/DNA would also have been caught. Anyone spot any more goofs?
I'd look at that dinky boat and the chunky waves and I'd be like You know what? I can probably wait this out. All signs point to go back lol
Looks pretty calm on the water so I do not get why you could not make it by boat? Or maybe a storm was on it's way?
Good information but it must be without music...
so the island is essentially one big baked solid brick.
It's the weird 'Silk Stalkings' music for me😌😌😌👌
After learning how to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull, her pronunciation literally made me die laughing, it's really not easy though so I don't blame her. Took me like 20 minutes.
get rid of the music
Row Deo Cmon, that’s Sigur Rós! It couldn’t be more fitting
@@TheWizardYeof Terrible music....can not hear the voices...
I feel this line they keep trying to draw between human action and the actions of other animals to be bloody absurd. We are inseperably part of this world as much as any other being.
4:02 What an epic sounding last name, holy shit.
The Geology hub Must see this Real Actual Documentary of Iceland 🇮🇸 Volcanic Islands Surtsey and Haemay .
its ok for a bird to carry seed to the island but not a person because people are not part of the ecosystem.
We are though. The reality is that there now is a species capable of traveling all around the world in a matter of hours. Trying to force that reality out of existence is contrived and what is really alien to me. We're here, for better or worse. We should let the Surtsey tomatoes grow. If a tomato plant could survive and thrive there then that would really be something I think.
@@politicallycorrectredskin796 Negative, the objective was to observe natural island formation, you are not supposed to selective plant whatever you want there or else you ruin any observation.
@@@om3g4z3r0 No it wouldn't. Only a person who thinks people or tomatoes are unnatural somehow would say that. And obviously you do, since in your opinion the presence of people and tomatoes prevents things from being "natural".
Both are natural. That is why nonsense like this annoys me.
@@politicallycorrectredskin796 You shoudn't interfere with the island formation, we don't always have the opportunity to watch this in our lifetime, cannot let it get interfered with some out of place plant a human brought.
@@@om3g4z3r0 All of it is nonsense. Just because scientists are the ones speaking the nonsense doesn't mean it's not still nonsense.
Good thing to study, those first plants and mosses will slow down erosion, deposit plant matter, and attract more sea birds. Sea birds start it with their droppings. Eventually soil will start being created and that will support more plants thus attracting more and bigger animals. Predators start living there full time. Maybe a Tsunami washes abunch of creatures there at once? Lol..I hope they are also studying underwater around that island. Probably doesnt take long for the beginnings of a reef
I want to live for 20 million years to see what will happen up there in general. The land keeps moving along above the hot spot, just like in Hawaii, so maybe Surtsey will erupt again in a few thousand years and grow bigger. Or maybe it happens tomorrow. I wish there was some way to know...It irritates me not knowing things.
I work for Arco and we are fracking surtsey right now.
Drilling for lava?
Volcano didn't burn the crude oil ? Your not fracking a volcano ash island , there is no reason , no oil.
You’re doing fucking what?
DNA is not composed of amino acids. It is correct, however, to say that proteins are made from amino acids.
Great little vid, wonderful information, but such a shame about the narration. So with I could go there!
Why did they remove the tomato plant?
Well, there goes that natural experiment.
A volcano video with a porn music in the background.
Shh
Surtsey = the new world which is for the three G's which is God, Gold, and Glory.
18:48 best part
A volcanic land takes a long time to be use by human
Krakatoa did that too, but also made the loudest noise ever.
Actually there was more land before the eruption than after.
Krakatoa actually blew itself apart! The center is npw anuk kracatoa...child of krakatoa...a new volcanoe rising out of the ruins of kraktoa.
@@chelseagreer6264 - It did not actually blow itself apart. It was a caldera eruption. The island subsided into the huge lava chamber as it emptied.
Tonga Volcano is like Surgery. A new island. If it erupts again will it be as explosive? Did it cause Tsunami?
I pictured Bullwinkle when I looked at the video.
Sleazy jazz + volcanoes = eh?
Sleazy jazz makes everything sexy, even volcanoes.
what is the name of saxophone track
Mate, no one thinks it's cool to ask what the song is in a video, they just enjoyed the song and want to listen to it. Chill the fuck out.
@@chaden9498 stfu
TheLifeandtheTimes Fuck off, what the hell is wrong on you
It's Jan Garbarek, a famous Norwegian sax player. I think it might be from his 1988 album, Legend of the Seven Dreams. Don't hate me if I remember wrong though, but check that one out.
can you imagine a volcano erupting after 190 years and very dangorus.
This gives me hope for Earth even as we perversely continue to extract fossil fuels, converting them into greenhouse gases and non-biodegradable plastic. I will not be around to see who wins, but I am rooting loudly for the earthworms
I would ignore the alarmists if I were you, because it's all riddled in politics by now. All gases are "greenhouse gases". it's how atmospheres work. Otherwise we'd freeze to death at night. So when people use this more or less nonsensical term to scare people with you already know they're not being honest. Or the people whose alarmism they are repeating aren't being honest. Either or. It's just Co2. Plants eat CO2. And Surtsey produced more CO2 while it was emerging than humans have done in all of recorded history anyway. So relax. And don't trust people blindly, because they usually have an agenda. The louder they are the more slimy the agenda too in my experience.
@@politicallycorrectredskin796 Do you actually believe what you just typed out?
I've never heard anyone pronounce the word Lava that way before.
I'm here from a jeopardy clue . . . and this shit is fuckin interesting & cool
Krakauer has a record
Bril music while you are flying over the island.
Thought she was bringing some food 🙄
But are there any Living Dinosaurs 🦖🦕 Giant Gorillas 🦍 Or Buried Treasures like Gold Diamonds 💎 & Rubys on that particular island 🏝 in Hawaii?
What if you went there and had to take a piss
16:30 View like form Mars
Surtsey and now Anak Krakatau have a similar character.
Krakatoa is now following it
who said the bird couldnt have shat out a fish that just ate a tomato?
Almost certainly that would not have been a wild tomato plant from way further south in the Americas. As humans have moved tomatos /tomato plants to other parts of the world in the last few hundred years even if a bird brought the seed it would be things humans did that led to the bird carrying it.
The way the woman pronounces the name irritates me. It's Aaaaya-fee-yat-ya-yokuth. Not eeeiya.
where day took ,, the small boat ,, ???? :D
Gripping script in a video about a newly formed island -- when they land by "little boat" they actually hear a wave behind them! LOL