Earth's REAL Lost Continents

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Published 2020-10-26
Miles beneath the ocean there are numerous sunken lands just waiting to be discovered. How did these lost lands form, and what would they be like today if they had been just a little higher up?

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Some links:
www.loc.gov/resource/g3762n.ct002288/?r=0.463,0.00…

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2…

ccom.unh.edu/sites/default/files/publications/Gard…

pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70207767

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_crust#/media/File:20…

pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70012202

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Tecton…

www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32253-0

hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00301555/document

www.researchgate.net/figure/Mid-Pacific-Mountains-…

www.researchgate.net/figure/Location-of-Shatsky-an…

www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03277-x

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-16829-…

All Comments (21)
  • @damooshroom4622
    Listen Madagascar, it's not that India and Africa don't still love each other, they just need some time apart.
  • @Ryan-zp4qo
    4:30: "Long Japan doesn't exist, it can't hurt you." Yet...
  • @psychicrenegade
    I would LOVE to see a video about the four supposed "lost" islands at the north pole! They are seen on maps from the 1500's and before...but then suddenly disappear from all maps made after 1600.
  • I like how when you talk about the potential anthropological implications of lost sets of islands. Especially the South American ones, it's so cool to think about!
  • @tlam3028
    “What do the South Americans get? The Falklands?” The British: No
  • Would have loved to see a world map in the end with all the "lost" landmasses raised from the ocean floor, just to see how that world would look like.
  • I would love to see a "part 2" of this video. With all these landmasses raised from the ocean floor, and then a re-calculation of the worldwide sea levels, followed by an analysis of how they would have changed the ocean currents. Followed by a discussion on how it would have altered the climate on the continents, and thus influence the flora and fauna on them.
  • @mysterious7215
    This channel is the hidden diamond for geography lovers
  • @NLTops
    Atlas Pro: Lost landmasses. The Dutch: Leave it to us.
  • @wille5080
    The submerged hawaiian island chain was always so interesting to me. It does an almost 90 degree turn to the north. Given that the mantle plume feeding the volcano is mostly stationary, this means something catastrophic must have happened to the pacific plate millions of years ago for it to stop moving one direction (north), and into a new direction (west). Some of my old professors said that the India plate crashing into the Asia plate did something to the plates around it. 🤷‍♂️
  • @Obsidianen
    Its sad that he didnt mention Doggerland, the landbridge between Great Britain, Europe and Scandinavia. Its most likely responsible, why Europe was so densely settled.
  • @Arizaniac
    I've never enjoyed geography class this much
  • @BASTYK14710
    11:37 That would've been a quite unique country. Roads pretty much in a straight line :)🤔🤔
  • I would’ve never known about that, about the hotspot chains. Feels like I’m really understanding the movement of earth this way.
  • @platogkrone7161
    8:30 "–meaning not only has the main body of the Hawaiian continent been lost, it's been erased off the face of the Earth, and there's no way for us to ever know what it was like." I just felt a strange sense of dread.
  • "It's not like I care about thw Portuguese speaking world" Portuguese: why Brazilians: why "What does South America have? The Falklands?" Argentines: why British: why
  • @cwxgames468
    Would love to see how a map would look if all of these were above sea level
  • @lance3748
    I have sometimes wondered how human beings found their way to Hawaii thousands of years ago. - The closest land to Hawaii is Kiribati, over 1000 miles away. That would be a very very long and dangerous journey in dugouts. It would require a lot of paddling and carrying enough food and water for even a few people seems unlikely. - Even if they had larger, sailing vessels (unlikely) it seems like an unlikely journey. - And you would have to get a decent sized population there for healthy procreation. (It would require a lot of trips back and forth and without a good means of navigating you could easily miss the islands on the way back) - But a line of small islands from Asia, or a fairly close continent, would explain it.