Is the most northern part of Iceland still there?
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2020
- Kolbeinsey is the most northern part of Iceland, a tiny island that, according to Wikipedia, is due to disappear due to wave erosion "probably around the year 2020". Which raised an obvious question: is it still there?
THANKS TO:
This video was inspired by some tweets from author Sam Hughes. You can follow him on Twitter here: / qntm and read his work here: qntm.org/fiction
The pilots and team at Norlandair, who sorted out a charter at very short notice: www.norlandair.is/
The folks at the Hafdals Hotel, who were okay with me filming from their spectacular view!
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PHOTO CREDITS:
Grimsey photos, in order, all licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license, creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Michael Pollak, "basaltsäulen": www.flickr.com/photos/michael...
John Lester, "IMG_0546": www.flickr.com/photos/pathfin...
Brian Gratwicke, "Puffin on Grimsey": www.flickr.com/photos/briangr...
Michael Pollak, "marker": www.flickr.com/photos/michael...
All photos of Kolbeinsey in 1989 and 2001 are copyright Guðmundur St. Valdimarsson, and used with permission and thanks.
Photos from 2013 are copyright of Landhelgisgæsla Íslands (the Icelandic Coast Guard), and used with permission and thanks.
And the "so I chartered a plane" gag is very heavily inspired by Matt Parker's video about stroboscopic helicopter blades: • Can we film a strobosc...
SOURCES and FURTHER READING:
Sæmundsson and Hjartarson (1989), "Geology and Erosion of Kolbeinsey North of Iceland", wayback.vefsafn.is/wayback/200...
Jacobsen, T., & Stone, I. (2006). Kolbeinsey: Iceland's Arctic island. Polar Record, 42(2), 167-169. doi: 10.1017/s0032247406215298
From Landhelgisgæsla Íslands (the Icelandic Coast Guard):
www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmid...
www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmid...
www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmid...
www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmid...
The Cod Wars, from the UK National Archives: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/c...
And of course, the Wikipedia article for Kolbeinsey, which will presumably be updated shortly after this video goes live. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolbeinsey
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Shortly after the camera cuts, Tom adorns himself with his RAF uniform and opens the bay doors to release a payload onto the island, once and for all ending Iceland's hopes and dreams of winning the Cod War
“So I chartered a plane” is the most Tom Scott moment I’ve ever seen
Tom Scott using his UA-cam channel as a cover for a top secret recon mission ordered by the Queen herself.
I thought that in order to be counted as an island, a piece of land had to be above the sea level all the time, and so a piece of land that is submerged at high tide would not count.
Tom casually visiting places that might not even exist
I suspect if the island wasn’t there, the Icelandic pilots would have thrown him out the plane in order to protect their country’s fishing rights.
I’m 3m 51s into this video and I’m stressed. Why am I so invested in whether a rock north of Iceland is still there? 4 minutes ago I didn’t even know it ever existed.
2009 Tom Scott: So we threw drums off a cliff; 2020 Tom Scott: So I chartered a plane in the Arctic Circle
Soooooo is it still there?
"SO I CHARTERED A PLANE!"- is the most predictable YET unpredictable thing I've heard from Tom in a while
I'm just imagining Tom chartering that plane:
Update: Wiki reference is still there:
"Is there really ice on mars? To see if it's there, you would need to rent a rocket... So I rented rocket!"
Tom Scott: "I couldn't risk being wrong on the internet, so I waited until 2020 and chartered a plane to prove whether a rock exists."
"In August 2020, English UA-camr Tom Scott published a video confirming the continued existence of the island, with two skerries still visible at low tide.[13][14] In April 2021, the Icelandic Coast Guard visited the island and measured it as 20 meters wide from west to east and 14.5 meters long from north to south.[4][5]"
Small update: last time someone checked and published if teh ridge was still there was in April 2021. Thats two years ago, time for someone to check and tell, again. Also this video made it to the German wikipedia about Kolbeinsey as a source that officially documents its lasts years. Gratz Tom, you made history. :)
Audience: Can we see the island?
love this
Two years later and we have to know. Is it still there?