10 Extreme Oddities of Earth’s Physical Geography

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While it is fairly familiar to us as our home, the Earth is apparently anything but your everyday planet. That is why we are habituated to Earth as our home in the universe; but in fact, this planet is the definition of exotic. In this account, we look at the most bizarre aspects of the Earth’s physical geography that may appear to defy natural order or human logic.
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10. Island in a Lake on an Island in a Lake on an Island
9. Mount Erebus, Antarctica
8. Giant Crystal Cave, Mexico
7. Sailing Stones, Racetrack Playa, Death Valley, California
6. Natural Bridges National Monuments
5. Wave Rock
4. Giant’s Causeway
3. Mount Roraima
2. Desert Beaches of Peru
1. Fairy Chimneys of Cappadocia, Turkey
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[@videt7459]

That moment you realize you're binge-watching too many of these during pandemic solitude, because Simon starts to seem like an actual friend you know in real life.

[@trippycatt161]

you regularly put out content for like 4 channels, man. If you're being held hostage blink four times in a row on your next one, lol

[@QuestionYourWorld]

How this comment only has 19 likes is the real oddity.

[@calichef1962]

It's up to 73 now. Is that better?

[@pandaemonaeon9]

Hahahahahahahaha

@@pandaemonaeon9 what are the other other channels though?

[@pandaemonaeon9]

@ he mentions them in his videos.

[@timmaay7181]

I love watching Simon’s old videos and seeing just how much he’s come he’s changed with the narration of these videos

[@UltimateVegetto]

The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!

[@michaelfacey2799]

Y Did you have to go there 😭😭😭💀

[@isaacroebuck9514]

NOOO!!! I thought I was the first to think of that. Damn internet.

[@0m3GAARS3NAL]

Underrated comment, needs more likes.

[@Alexander-oq1op]

It’s not a boulder. Issa rock

[@friedrichgerster1583]

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[@butcherboy2008]

Costello: Do you like Canada? Abbott: I love Canada. Costello: What's your favorite part of Canada? Abbott: Nunavut. Costello: I thought you said you love Canada.

[@blindleader42]

Third base! 👍

[@alilabeebalkoka]

When the Canadian government asked the Eskimos what part of Canada they wanted. Eskimos replied none of it. A miss understanding resulted in the creation of Nunavut!

[@butcherboy2008]

They were dead for quite a while. I think Nunavut became a province in the 1990s.

[@franl155]

@Toni Remer - look for "Who's on First?" Know it's on YT cos I found it

[@x1achilles99]

You have to be Canadian to get it. Nobody outside of that country knows what Nunavut is.

[@musicalneptunian]

Honourable mentions: Burning Mountain: a massive underground, natural coal seam fire in Australia that has been burning for at least 6000 years. Guarapari, Brazil: a beach with natural radioactivity that is safe for humans and some people even go there to heal from illnesses.

[@rosiefay7283]

Nice to have some examples that aren't in North America.

[@musicalneptunian]

@@rosiefay7283 Thank you! I add that as well as Guarapari, there is an area of Iran with the same natural healing radiation effect; in both cases we don't know why.

[@elroyfudbucker6806]

The radioactivity comes from monazite, which contains thorium.

[@Arterexius]

@@elroyfudbucker6806 Then I suggest we'll just leave the Thorium in there. It's the first and only example I've seen of Thorium not being extremely deadly

[@lizslilcorneroftheinstitution]

I think I heard the moment my brain cramped with the whole “... an island on a lake in an island on a lake in an island...”. Is this where “thousand island salad dressing” comes from?!🤣

[@bernier42]

It comes from the “Thousand Islands” - a region of the St. Lawrence River between Canada and the United States that contains a lot of islands.

[@jackgibsxxx0750]

You can see this on Google Earth Look up the Wikipedia page for Victoria Island and I think it mentions it there along with lat\long. Maybe a pix. Then find that on Google Earth but you will have to do a little comparing of the images and zooming in and out and the 2 images are not both turned "north up" but it can be found. I spent a fun 30 mins last yr finding it. Just one of the things I do while I have my mask off (I.E. at home). Have fun and be safe.

[@rebeccaquartieri5509]

@@bernier42 aboot a thousand isn't it? 😅😅😅😅😅

[@russell_szabados]

I dated a girl in high school who’s family moved to the “Thousand Islands”. Obviously we broke up, we were only 15. We lived in Nyack, NY, about half an hour northwest of New York City.

[@Rog5446]

The town pictured in Cappadocia with the Fairy Chimneys is Nevsehir. There are lots of cave apartments and mini hotels to stay and it's blessed with a few nice restaurants.

[@Niallokk]

As a Geography teacher, I admire this video. I admire your commentary more, you make my subject so interesting!

[@joesikorski4711]

Love Simon's narration. Pleasant tone, and, unlike most with British accents, I could easily understand every word.

[@dogerriders868]

More science/nature videos like this please, they're my favorite.

[@Sara-sn5gd]

Ok, I'm sure there must be dozens of outtakes with that 'island in a lake on an island...' fiasco and I wanna see them!

[@mayflowerlash11]

Dear Calichef1962, You are correct, these hexagonal basalt column occur in most places where slowly cooled extinct volcanoes have been weathered down to an almost flat landscape. I live in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia and between here and the coast there are many of these basalt hills. Clearly this was a volcanic region some tens or hundreds of millions of years ago. One hill is call Mt Jim Crow and can be climbed easily. Down at the coast at the Rosslyn Bay Marina there is another mound of hex columns. Not many people seem to know the connection between these hex columns and slowly cooling basalt within a volcano. Cheers

[@deepgardening]

Very little of the basalt columns I know in Western North America are associated with volcanoes. Fissures, sure. There are some awesome amphitheaters left from the catastrophic glacial floods, (the BBC did a special that included a local guy flying his ultralight over the landscape, for some of the footage eh?) and the Columbia gorge has some nice columns too. There's a former river in southern California with some of the smaller hexagons I've seen. The phenomena is common enough that we buy hexagonal columns and put them in our gardens. You can get them with a hole bored through the length for your water feature. One I was shown was in the garden of a gay man who delighted in turning the water on full, spouting out of the phallic 6 ft. column. Some columns are around 6 ft. diameter. Some of the basaltic lavas were from the Yellowstone "hot spot" So: we're not talking "Devils Causeway" here, but areas larger than some countries, and columns taller than buildings. Devil's Tower columns in Wyoming are hundreds of feet tall. The pieces that fall off are sized around, say, a VW Bus if I remember right (I was 12 then) There are columns in 5 locations or more in the cities of Eugene and Springfield Oregon, mostly in roadcuts and quarries. Any highway thru the Cascade mountains and a few spots on the Oregon coast have 'em. More common than rats!

[@mayflowerlash11]

@@deepgardening Thanks for your reply Rick. These basalt columns are an interesting feature of the landscape. I learned about them in Geology while studying engineering. When I came to Central Queensland I was able to identify them as volcanic. It's a buzz being able to tell a little about the geological history of an area because you have a little geological knowledge. Emphasis on the "little". I've recently learnt about the origin of the badlands in NW USA. I bet the torrent of water that created them also exposed some basalt columns along the way. Cheers.

[@deepgardening]

@@mayflowerlash11 The COOLEST quirk of the coulee country: Just below Dry Falls, in the basalt wall of a channel they were quarrying for road ballast at the base of the flow, and there appeared a hole in the quarry wall. They filled it with plaster and carefully exposed a cast of an extinct Rhino, on it's back, legs up where it had been engulfed 20 million ago or thereabouts....

[@mayflowerlash11]

@@deepgardening That is cool!

[@reeseroberts2587]

California has a site similar to Giants Causeway in Ireland. It is called Devil's Postpile at Mammoth Lakes. This is a pile of completely hexagonal columns some most still intact with the outer ones broken and laying in a pile around the edges. Completely remarkable and not always available to see depending on how deep the snowpack was from the winter before, at times the snow does not melt enough from winter to winter to reveal it and be able to see it.

[@DineshSingh-xp9ij]

I’m going to make a presentation on this topic for my geography class

[@Blexxor12]

Plot Twist: Your teacher is an avid TopTenz fan and you get got for plagiarism

[@steve9021oh]

Sounds about right. Use someone’s else’s hard work and claim it as your own hard work. Your gen is definitely showing that right now.

[@frankenshake]

Steve Sanders They just said they’d do the topic, not steal the script. There‘s plenty more research they can do for these, and I’d suspect several more locations that fit the topic’s description but weren’t covered here (since it is of course capped at 10). Let’s have a little faith that it merely sparked their curiosity before accusing them of being horrible? Lol

[@plexus]

KZbin and Wikipedia must make high school essays and projects SO much easier than the shite 56K modem and geocities and angelfire websites from my era of web surfing.

[@barbecuesquirrel2324]

@@plexus isn’t it the goal to make life easier and better with new technology?

[@63yearoldskater]

Great episode! Don't forget, the U.S. state of Kentucky has beautiful natural bridges in the Red River Gorge. And, when I lived in Saudi Arabia as a teenager, we would visit the beach at the Red Sea near Jiddah, that is also a vast desert touching the water.

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

There's a second lakeception in Canada. Lake Huron of the Great Lakes chain contains Manitoulin Island. Manitoulin Island is quite large and has several large-ish lakes in it. One lake, not the largest of them, Lake Mindemoya has an island, Treasure Island. Treasure Island -> Lake Mindemoya -> Manitoulin Island -> Lake Huron.

[@WILD__THINGS]

He stated in the video that there are lots of them.

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

I went looking on Google maps around Manitoulin. Turns out there are quite a few island-in-lake-on-island-in-lake's just on Manitoulin. But in defence of my first statement Treasure Isle is the world's largest.

[@anonUK]

Treasure Island is BIGGER than the lake that contains it?

[@SMartinTX]

Lake Manitou on Manitoulin Island is the largest lake within a lake in the world. There are several islands in the lake and at least one of the islands has a small pond in it. Treasure Island apparently also has pond as well.

[@JohnSmith-fk7hq]

thumbs up

[@thyde9535]

Why they put the desert meeting the ocean in Peru so high on the list is kind of strange, because the skeleton coast in Namibia is the same thing, a desert meeting the ocean. For that matter so is much of North Africa.

[@jonandreson54]

As is much of Baja California

[@ellagrant6190]

Parts of South Australia too.

[@PanglossDr]

True, one of the strangest things I have ever seen was a caravan of camels walking alongside the Atlantic in Morocco, between the highway and the sea, on a cold, windy, raining day.

[@MIKA-xv5ln]

and most of the west coast of australia

[@russell_szabados]

The Great Australian Bight. That’s along the south central coast of Australia. I don’t know if the land is actually “desert”, but aerial photos of it are cool. The land is completely flat right up to the coast, then a sheer drop to the water that looks at least 80-100 feet high (25-30 meters or so). Would love to visit.

[@DarthBludgeon]

Why hasn't a major network picked you up yet? I could watch you all day. :)

[@beachbrettf]

Drug tests.

[@murtazazaidi95]

We experience the dessert to sea coastal lines on most of Pakistans coasts. The west was sort of always desert (Gawadar and beyond) but recently the eastern side (Karachi and rest of sindh) is now rapidly turning into a desert. We even had a desert locuts invasion a few weeks ago.

[@guynorth3277]

This was the most awesome show, I was so intrigued with every place.

[@wishgodgirl1903]

Always enjoy listening to you , Simon. Thank you.

[@BalefulHead]

I love how there's still so much out there I've never heard about. Wave Rock is new to me. Very cool!

[@MarielynetteJohnson]

But what are those cool marks on the Peruvian coast?

[@ruthelisaluna6910]

Simon, you always have awesome and wonderfully made videos, thank you!

[@ilarious5729]

There's lakeception in Finland too, im actually looking at the most inner island of it atm

[@hismom8682]

Anssi_Ilari lakeception love that hahah

[@Zola_6]

You forgot to mention how deadly Crystal Cave is 🙈

[@mayflowerlash11]

Hi there TopTenz, In your description of the Giants Causeway we describe the lava columns as having been the result of "rapidly cooling volcanic basalt rock". I think you'll find that the giant hexagonal crystal columns are the result of relatively slow cooling. In general fast cooling results in small crystals and slow cooling results in large crystals. Have a nice day.

[@daskritterhaus5491]

correct. very slow cooling allows the very molecules of the rock to properly align themselves at that level and thus in the normal actual view the crystaline structure is matched. but it takes a long time for the core crystal to grow and liquid molecules latch on in the correct position.

[@TheMimiSard]

The Giant's Causeway reminds me of one place I visited in Germany. It's a ruined fortress whose name I forget, but the detail I am reminded of is that the hill it was built on has basalt pillars like the Causeway. Of course, in construction of the fortress quite a bit of that stone was chopped into pieces (in a long and difficult process because it's hard stone) and used in building a lot of the walls, but there are a few places where clusters of the stone pillars were left intact - particularly spots where it could be intergrated into a wall. A lot of the fortress has since been destroyed, particularly by Napoleon, since it was close to regions controlled by the enemy (I think my friend mentioned Austria?), but there is enough still left for it to be an interesting tourist spot to visit.

[@TheMimiSard]

@Kerrie Wilson There is a piece of music named after Finegal's Cave that is a truly breathtaking musical take on the waves of the sea.

[@RinoaL]

Earth is my favorite planet!

[@asterix811]

Definitely in the top ten.

[@onehappydogg]

I wish I was from there.

[@andyeaton3191]

I’m kinda partial to Uranus😂😂

[@skipbellon4342]

In my favorite universe.

[@mathewhale3581]

Yeah It’s where I keep all my stuff

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

I am always interested in fascinating facts about earth geology and geography. Thanks for this post. Here in New Mexico we have a park of cone shaped peaks just like those in Cappedocia, Turkey. The Kasha Katuwe Tent Peaks National Monument resulted from a huge deposit of ash from an eruption one million years ago from the Valle Grande Volcano to the north. The name Kasha Katuwe means 'white cliffs' in Keresan which is the language of the nearby Cochiti Pueblo.

[@HigherHeartWarriorChannel]

Simon this is a great video topic! Do you think you could do a 2nd version?

[@robsmissen4]

Great video, thanks! Most of these were unknown to me and very cool.

[@mattpotter8725]

Why the hell did the section on Mount Roraima start off with a picture of an island and an explanation of island formation? I get that these tepuis are called islands in the sky, but this to me was very bizarre. I also didn't quite understand the desert coastline of Peru being included in the list, many deserts have coastlines so it isn't that bizarre. I thought here it would have been better to have included the "wet desert" in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, a lot more bizarre and fascinating. The Peru deset coastline, just wasn't that odd in my opinion. The Sahara desert, the Kalahari, the Arabian desert all have coastlines so whilst to humans not living in or seeing these regions it is an oddity, it really isn't, unless there is another reason for mentioning it, which I missed.

[@jennysummers4632]

thumbs up

[@thecrowcook]

well since no one has responded to this in over 2 years, the reason the one in peru is so notable wasnt even mentioned in the video. The atacama desert stretches from the southern part of peru into the northern part of chilie and by comparison makes the sahara look like a rainforest. so you have the contrasting situation of the wettest place on earth and the driest

[@jrlanglois]

Simon is a content creating beast

[@peterblood50]

Nice video guys. I rather expected to see Devil's Tower Wyoming in there though.

[@catjudo1]

I've been to a few neat places... Devil's Tower, Ship Rock, Monument Valley, Carlsbad Caverns, Big Bend National Park, The Grand Canyon, Royal Gorge, The Black Hills, The Arctic Circle, Homer Spit, Vesuvius, Homasassa Springs, Outer Banks, The Sands of Monahans, Gros Morne National Park, Bay of Fundy. Any one of them could go here. Ten of them could make a new list!

[@Graviora]

Did anyone else notice that the article used for the island in a lake is Taal Volcano in the Philippines? A little far from Canada if you ask me

[@WaterShowsProd]

When he mentioned an island in a lake on an island in a lake I thought he was going to talk about Taal, which formed as the result of a caldera within a caldera. Stunningly beautiful. The soil is excellent for farming and there is a fabulous restaurant that grows all of their produce and herbs right there on the volcano.

[@JohnSmith-fk7hq]

Loved

[@dannyboy22racer]

Yeah I spotted that

[@vilstef6988]

The Victoria Island islands in lakes etc as described is what is called a third order island.

[@philhead03]

12:46 The volcanic material making up those formations is known as "tuff", not "tuft".

[@1beni]

Always enjoy your presentations

[@beastshawnee4987]

This was great but hard to see any details on my handheld phone...Perhaps more cutaways right go the actual full screen of some detail areas! I really enjoyed the content! And the Narration was great.

[@michealdrake3421]

Fun bit of trivia: Erebus is probably one of the most awesome names for a remote volcano imo, since it's the name of the Greek primordial diety of the void

[@Arterexius]

Scientists are that kind of nerds. The satellite that was sent to Jupiter, was named Juno, who, in the Greek mythology, had a wife named Juno, but he was always unfaithful. All of Jupiters moons are named after his mistresses, so NASA literally sent his wife to check up on him and his unfaithful manners 😂

[@drone_video9849]

You found the real location of Superman's Home at 03:35 - Simon also looks a bit like Lex Luther - coincidence? Maybe not....

[@JohnSmith-fk7hq]

Loved

[@drone_video9849]

John Flaherty could be another top 10. Real places that inspired fictional places ?

[@GigawingsVideo]

Simon Luthor, Lex Luthor's less ambitious cousin.

[@dubfunk1886]

Auto translate to english in the subtitles, and all the talk about homeless people smoking, and rampant sex is amazing! The captions convinced me to go to all of these places.

[@lisamac1986]

I don’t know why Simon you make learning so much more interesting than school did.

[@steveharmon7818]

Because nothing is less interesting than school

[@kellywright540]

Bummer! Thought Devil's Tower in Wyoming would make the list! Either way, pretty cool video!

[@rebeccaquartieri5509]

Have seen that in person.

[@Mugdorna]

Probably as it quite well known

[@1969Kismet]

The legend about the Giant's Causeway is very nice and funny at the same time. It tells of two giants (One Irish and one Scottish) who created a causeway to meet in the middle for a fight. The other part of the causeway is on the Scottish Isle of Staffa.

[@_ric]

Yeah this annoyed me, even if it's just reasearcher's content that he's reading out, being British he really should know that the Giant's Causeway is featured on both sides of the Irish Sea not just one side. What's more, you are right about the legend and considering this channel's MO, you'd think he would have added that in.

[@christineparis5607]

With my dad being Irish, the legend sounds completely in character. The Irish love to brawl!!

[@michaelbeelby1995]

1969Kismet Who won?

[@christineparis5607]

@@michaelbeelby1995 They're probably still fighting...

[@mjbull5156]

The Irish one has possibly the best name in any mythology: Finn MacCool.

[@Kuwaitisnot_adeployment]

The wave rock is really cool! It's not everyday I see something brand new but I've never seen that before.

[@muwuny]

Thanks for not showing any of the Antarctic ice pillars.

[@ABCDoris]

Bomber Harris America had made sure those have melted already.

[@lissfirefly9517]

I know, right? Talk about it, but never show it. Truly frustrating.

[@jacksondavies1451]

@@ABCDoris more like China ngl

[@ABCDoris]

@@jacksondavies1451 Not really. Not at all in fact.

[@abcde_fz]

Sometimes you just can't easily find pictures of things. At the very least, you'd probably have to do something like fly a helicopter close over the area to get any shots... Maybe some could be found on Google Images, but they had a hard time getting just the right names to do the word search to find any pix in time for uploading the video.

[@elizabethshaw734]

Giant mushrooms! And yes I do know what else they look like but I would rather think of them as giant mushrooms. Thank you, the management!

[@martinbaxter6414]

Seeing Mount Roraima, I was more thinking of The Lost World.

[@thomasdarby6084]

Mt. Roraima was also the setting for the original 1960 version of Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World." There were dinosaurs up there! Lol.

[@PervySage13]

I don't know why but the sailing stones reminded me of a giant etch-a-sketch lol

[@shelleynobleart]

Loved every bit of this video.

[@SUNKINGME]

I've seen Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and stayed in a cave hotel in Cappadoccia, Turkey.

[@michelcolet6975]

So what was it like? Sounds pretty cool.

[@BenJohnson0531]

Check out the basalt column lined river in Iceland if you want to be transported to a fantasy landscape

[@hankdetroit2076]

Thank you so much for using standard units of measure, I can now properly envision distance and weight !!!

[@mangetsuderdeutschgamer6580]

*Sees sailing stones* "The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!"

[@brendanquinlan5936]

Excellent video 👍

[@stevep5408]

You missed delicate arch in natural bridges park also skeleton coast of Namibia, desert dunes loaded with diamonds running into the sea with wrecks of ships lining the shore overlooked by ghost towns of 19th century mining towns!

[@WILD__THINGS]

He didn't miss anything. Those are your choices. Make your own video.

[@jamesmccrea4871]

Vulcan Point Island is also an island on a lake, on an island in a lake of an island, but in the Pacific.

[@jasoncrowell6191]

SHOW ME THE DAMN ICE TOWERS ALREADY!!!!!!@!!

[@JohnSmith-fk7hq]

Loved

[@austinharding9734]

or for that matter half the things described.

[@MarielynetteJohnson]

Yeah! He defied the imagination! I hate that phrase.

[@paulscott4932]

Yes, less of your talking head (and less "witty banter").

[@negativesense3305]

Love the new backgrounds it adds something you were missing to your videos

[@thatterenceguy95]

Love how you pronounced Nunavut. Though it was wrong, you recognized it as a territory, and not a province, so you did better than some of my friends (who would all be Canadian).

[@mbear1639]

I was surprised you didn't mention Led Zeppelin's 5th album cover, Houses of the Holy, when you were talking about Giant's Causeway. Great video, as always.

[@amistenson2535]

If the “iceberg rocks” were actually alien rovers. 🤫 Welcome to my mind. 🙌😁

[@binaway]

A natural bridge (London Bridge) that existed along the Great Ocean Rd at Port Campbell Vic Australia collapsed into the sea in 1990 isolating the smaller natural bridge (London Arch). This was 6 weeks after a helicopter crashed into one end of (London Bridge). Now trapped on the new island two tourists had to be rescued by a police helicopter

[@seanpualic9834]

I love Earth. I holiday here regularly!! 😂😂

[@djimma5080]

Ahhh a fellow traveller Halloo

[@djimma5080]

@Yazmeli Ayzol They are getting there though some have found the DMT ... But alas the plan must go on we have one earth month to vacate the surface to maintain our safety then its just a case of waiting for the COVID to take full effect and then we can begin with full teraform and population

[@JCO2002]

A minor quibble - the crystal formations aren't stalactites or stalagmites, which form from dripping water in dry chambers. The crystals formed in a supersaturated solution of gypsum - the chamber was flooded until, I believe, a mine passage caused it to drain. Stewart - Jamaican Caves Organisation.

[@peterroberts2737]

I think the rocks are moved by aliens when they are pissed off making crop circles

[@gubjorggisladottir3525]

Did the first bridge makers imitate those natural bridges or did they possible stumble upon that design by themselves?

[@Strype13]

I am absolutely dumbfounded as to how some super wealthy person and/or colony hasn't built some type of awesome sky-kingdom on top of Mount Roraima by now. Props to whoever holds the rights to that land. I'd imagine it's quite valuable.

[@bruxi78230]

The top of Monte Roraima (which the Brazilians pronounce Ho-Rye-Mah) is actually a triple border between Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil. About 20 years ago I had occasion to make the climb with a Brazilian group. Amazing views but a difficult climb for me anyway.

[@djimma5080]

How do you know they haven't

[@onehappydogg]

I really enjoyed this video.

[@luckyhands4995]

Ill be honest...the 'lakeception' thumb is the reason i clicked. Love your vids!

[@Benjiefrenzy]

If there's anything Canada has enough of it's Tim Horton's and lakes.

[@tavdy79]

There's another "lakeception" that goes one further - periodically. Moose Flats is a seasonal pond on Ryan Island, Siskiwit Lake, Isle Royal, Lake Superior, North America. When it floods, it contains an island called Moose Boulder.

[@travissmith9046]

@@tavdy79 I'm glad someone else knew this as well

[@lypscratch]

Nice! Love that!!

[@AndyEmerald]

You could have mentioned the "Eye of the Sahara".

[@frankthelion]

Thats atlantis!

[@simplyhuman3982]

That is such an interesting feature to me. I am almost convinced that it is the famed Atlantis. But no mainstream historian will look into it and declare such things.

[@nevyen149]

@@simplyhuman3982 It's not. It's never been an island in the Atlantic, or at least not in the last million years or so. Even though the Sahara greens up on occasion, it doesn't go to the level of flooding the area, and the timeline of the last greening does not line up with the legend. It was already drying out when Atlantis was supposed to be at it's height. Parts of the Sahara were once a sea, however, again, not in 7 million years. The site is also at the bottom of a drainage system, there is no direct outflow to the ocean, and nothing like the wide channel depicted by Plato. The geology of the site is understood enough to account for the shape, and analysis of the area shows a rainfall pattern of intense dry periods and infrequent desert flash floods. It simply wasn't wet enough to turn that area into a sea-accessible port, especially given it's miles from the ocean, behind a mountain range, and at the bottom of a drainage system in another mountain range. The kicker is the fact that archaeological examination of the area has found zero evidence of civilization. The entire artifact assemblage for the region consists of remnants of stone-age hunter/gatherer camp, where they spent short periods gathering and working stone. Even if you argue that the Atlanteans built their city on an existing geological feature, there is simply no evidence of the construction. Not a single stone structure is evident. Not one ruin, not one pile of bricks or stones, and not one piece of pottery or human constructed artifacts what-so-ever. According to Plato, the city had canals, huge walls, residential areas and a business/manufacturing quarter...not one stone of which can be found at the site. It actually doesn't match the location from Plato's works, unless you take broad liberties with the description. If Atlantis was real, it wasn't there.

[@simplyhuman3982]

@@nevyen149 who says 7 million years? And just maybe that current that swept across was strong enough to push those remains in the ocean. Have you heard Randall Carlson at all? He is a catastrophist who studies ancient catastrophes. He didn't say it was there however but he give you an understanding of how such a thing is possible.

[@nevyen149]

​@@simplyhuman3982 Geologists and the physicists who do the lab work say it was 7 million years ago. As far as "currents" wiping every single artifact away, just...not...happening. Look at Crete, and the destruction of the Minoan civilization...look at Fukashima! Tidal waves which 'wiped' cities off the map, but the remains are scattered everywhere. Using your hypothesis, some how, at the Rishat Structure, a prehistoric shallow sea built up currents to travel miles inland and wipe EVERY SINGLE artifact away...Nope! And further, the human artifacts which are found, are more fragile and transient than the huge walls and monumental building constructions of Atlantis. Your suggestion is, that the buildings, bridges and canals of Atlantis were utterly, completely washed away, but scattered piles of stone flakes and camp fires were left untouched? Again, nope, just nope. (Edit: Geologists would most likely be able to identify the signs of a huge cataclysmic wave, and haven't.) The Richat Structure is also not geographically suited to have a "current" wash anything anywhere but into the site itself. The structure IS the bottom of a drainage system, on top of a mountain range. You can look at it on Google Earth, and see the elevations, and the fact all the drainage goes into the 'eye'. There is one out flow, however it doesn't lead directly to the sea (past or present), and doesn't match the description of the entrance to Atlantis' harbor described by Plato. Face it, if anywhere is Atlantis...that ain't it.

[@carstenlauridsen4961]

Thank you for allways great content!

[@adamgarcia8684]

12:34 “Greek Em-PAHHH and Persian Em-PAHHH” 😂Simon’s LIT 🔥 💯 You can’t un-hear it. Em-PAHHHH !

[@Oromias]

I wish you would make a whole series of these videos!

[@Debre.]

How many channels does this guy have?!

[@joeampolo42]

4:41 and following. Is the thin sheet of ice what we commonly call black ice in New England and the Midwest when it forms on a roadway?

[@perrydowd9285]

Lakeception almost describes Atlantis. BTW, wave rock isn't gigantic, it's tiny. I used to live in Narrogin, not far from Hyden. Wave Rock is a little joke & a BIG disappointment to tourists. The "trees" in that photo are West Australian Sheoak, which is a shrub that grows to a maximum height of about 1.5m (~7 feet) its about 160m long (~145 yards). Not gigantic at all. :-D

[@narlynarwhals27]

Perry Dowd don’t know what you talking about, there’s a photo of people standing under the rock and it’s at least 50feet tall... i wouldn’t call that tiny?

[@alecduquette7500]

Honorable mention to the Desert of Maine. Maine is 89% forests and the rest is coastline but right in the middle of southern Maine there's a 40 acre desert surrounded by pine trees. Not a true desert as it gets regular rainfall but the sand is glacial slit and much finer then normal sand

[@isaacroebuck9514]

4:40 *"The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!!!"*

[@harmonicamanrandy]

Isle Royal in Michigan has the lake island thing going on too. Just thought I'd mention it.

[@q345ify]

driving through Arizona you can find a rock formation that looks like Snoopy lying on his doghouse

[@trevormiles5852]

going to las vegas from san diego.. there is a formation of a large octopus mountain.

[@mornayventer7019]

Honestly... anyone say's something is so-many feet long or wide, means absolutely nothing to many of us...

[@markmh835]

Means absolutely nothing to most humans on earth. He might as well be doing his videos in Sanskrit.

[@philthycat1408]

Very . Interesting. Indeed. Although. There. Is . Far . To . Many. Full. Stops. In. Your. Script.

[@jessicalee333]

*are, not is.

[@CassandrashadowcassMorrison]

I really enjoyed this one. Thank you Simon (and everyone)

[@Peizxcv]

0:28 - Canada is the 4th largest country by land area after Russia, China and US, not the 2nd largest. Canada and the US often adds lakes and territorial waters into size figures to be placed ahead of China but by land size alone, China is comfortably larger.

[@dianethedinosaur3228]

You are mistaken. By land mass the 4 largest countries are Russia, Canada, the U.S. (including territories overseas, but not any territorial waters or lakes) & China.

[@Peizxcv]

itsallgood today Consider the detail I was able to provide when making my statement, you should have done some research before trying to refute me. Look up a chart that shows land and water as separate category

[@dianethedinosaur3228]

I did.

[@Peizxcv]

itsallgood today Link to the location where you find Canada and the US is bigger than China by land area please

[@dougreimer2912]

That's nonsense....are you self taught?..sounds like creationism logic.

[@stompingrigs]

I could just sit here and watch simon talk for days. ; )

[@ghostynine2815]

Hi Simon, I think another interesting thing about the crystal caves is that they must have formed while the cave was submerged, and that the atmosphere is poisonous to humans.

[@fig4159]

Are we REALLY habituated to this planet? That's a GREAT question....you should consider doing a video on THAT.

[@janderson1008]

Wait, are you suggesting that stones do not move on their own outside of California?

[@banveloski7273]

There are some spectacularly amazing places in this vast world...but I always spend my one week summer vacation in Williamsburg, Va.

[@Spoderman5000]

Was it hard to keep a straight face during the island-in-a-lake-within-a-lake-in-an-island bit?

[@JimBonsey]

That was very interesting. /me adores giants' causeway. :-) Great video, Simon!

[@LE-kt9jg]

Hi random person scrolling through comments.. I hope you are having a great Saturday! 😁❤️

[@kenxclout]

I just found out that santa isn’t real so im kinda pissed

[@christelheadington1136]

It's only Oct., you should be worrying about the Great Pumpkin.

[@willefaberchapelle1044]

Well tank you, i is having a gret satdaj

[@ambuhbliss]

Tell me to get off youtube and finish this essay and test. I don't wanna work on them tomorrow or later tonight

[@christelheadington1136]

Get off KZbin and finish that essay and test!

[@thedoctrine101]

The Earth's location relative to its moon and the Sun, where the Moon is 400 times narrower than the Sun, but also happens to be 400 times closer, which accounts for both of the Sun's disk and the Moon's disk being the exact same size in the sky, having a particular effect during the total solar eclipse, I would say this is a pretty extreme geographical oddity and should be number one on this list.

[@blindleader42]

That isn't geographical; It's astronomical. It's also not particularly remarkable in itself. It just happens that human civilization arose at the time that this relationship exists. Over time, the moon as viewed from Earth decreases in apparent size because the moon's orbit is expanding (the moon is getting farther away). So eventually the moon will appear smaller than the sun, and all solar eclipses will be annular, not just the ones that occur when the Earth is at perihelion.

[@LeonCilliers_phaze]

Simon, it is understandable that most of your viewers are from the USA/Britain where imperial units are commonly understood, and mentioning all the units in a sentence can be confusing. Could you at least add the metric units in an onscreen text note of sorts?

[@kenhelmers2603]

Very cool! Would like to see those places.