7 Places You CAN'T Legally Visit

[@nicholaswoollhead6830]

I actually met a guy recently who grew up on Novaya Zemlya on a military base. Dude told wild stories of the long winter nights, how they would have an intricate rope-system for moving between houses in the dark and snowy conditions, and how you couldn't leave the base without a rifle to fend off polar bears. Crazy stuff.

[@yespls6260]

That's so interesting!

[@JayDeeDonuts]

Damn, i needa visit that island bruh

[@adamwnt]

If that’s true that’s absolutely crazy and fascinating stuff. So sad that tsar bomb who knows how many bears and other wildlife killed

[@carick235]

@@adamwnt Bears kill nuclear bombs in Soviet Russia

[@gohstleviathanyt9859]

@@carick235 that's why the soviets lost the COLD war hehe

[@TheLibermania]

Sending only Cheerleaders to a deserted island sounds like the death trap from a horror movie

[@autarchprinceps]

The island isn't deserted. It is filled with military personal, a lot of which are male. So more like a porno than a horror movie?

[@TheLibermania]

@@autarchprinceps Sorry, i'm not an english native. I didn't meant deserted i meant remote. But a porn would probably fit too.

[@wordsmith451]

Let's compromise. How about horror porn?

[@autarchprinceps]

@@wordsmith451 I don't think I want to see "Cheerleaders on Diego Garcia Air Base: The Horror Porn".

[@wordsmith451]

@@autarchprinceps well, maybe not with that name. How about Be Careful What You Cheer For? Or WarFanny: Desert Island? Or Saving Ryan's Privates?

[@ronin667]

An interesting fact about the British Indian Ocean Territory is that the main island Diego Garcia was declared uninhabited, despite lots of people living there. Before giving the island to the USA as a military base, the previous "unofficial" inhabitants were all rounded up by the British military and deported to Mauritius and the Seychelles, and their descendants have been struggling to get compensation before British and US courts ever since.

[@uwuingallnight7381]

i heard an interesting interview about this recently. They were just suddenly chased out and there seems to be no real hope of them being able to go back

[@joshsaunders7726]

The Bancoult case is famous within the UK legal world

[@ToastieBRRRN]

Another interesting fact: Diego Garcia (actually Dom Garcia) was first discovered by Portuguese. So technically they're the original indigenous inhabitants of the island.

[@joshsaunders7726]

@@ToastieBRRRN I would of thought it would be the Chagossian people?

[@ToastieBRRRN]

@@joshsaunders7726 No they were Indians and Malays who were later brought over as indentured servants to work on palm plantations and such. Same as the people of Mauritius.

[@Ataturkinator]

Mount Athos is actually a pretty interesting story as to why women are not allowed. Basically old Christian monasteries that were dedicated to Mary did not allow women, as to prevent diluting the idea that the land was dedicated to 1 single woman alone. However over time the entire idea of monastic states pretty much died out, leaving Mt. Athos effectively alone on earth with this policy

[@franl155]

According to a documentary I saw ages ago, even female animals aren't allowed; I don't know how they manage for eggs or milk, unless these are "imported"

[@kingding-a-ling9794]

@@franl155 great you had to say the final thing that sends me into a probably 1 hour rabbit hole before work

[@segacedi1]

@@franl155 I'm more interested in how they defended it against all the female sparrows and if they were more successful than China.

[@franl155]

@@segacedi1 - lol! well, I suppose female birds don't actually "live" there - maybe they destroy any nests they find? Hmm, talking about nests; ants and bees have queens ...

[@Ataturkinator]

@@franl155 It's just a little peninsula off of Greece with ferries running and a border, they can probably just grab some from local supermarkets if need be

[@Gamesaucer]

Going to North Sentinel Island would actually endanger the people that live there severely. No, it's not best for them to "ignore their wishes", we carry many diseases that we are immune to that could outright kill most of them. They're also not an uncontacted tribe. Several islanders were taken away at one point by an expedition in 1880, but then a number of them died and the rest were sent back. There has also been friendly contact with India as late as 1997, with delegations that left gifts for them. However, we were unable to decipher their language, which would be necessary if we want to e.g. convince them to be vaccinated against common diseases or give them any kind of technology, as well as get them to not attack you.

[@skys7452]

you are so right! I hate it when people (like in this video) only focus on them killing people (that illegally enter into their safe space) and ignore the fact that it would kill them if we visited. Also why can't we just leave them alone?

[@skys7452]

also I doubt that the average person is happier than the average person on North Sentinel Island so why should we tell them about everything that is going on in the world if they just wanna be left alone and live their life

[@nekrosis6560]

Exactly, and European civilization isn't always the best by literally basic history. It disgusts me how people still have these savior complexes (not saying toycat has that) when we are savages in our own right in 2022

[@jrfw96]

Exactly, those islanders are probably living their best lives being left alone. They dont need saving, they are the lucky ones. They dont use money, have debt, work a 9-5 etc. They live a carbon neutral lifestyle. What is there to save? Im pretty sure the native americans preferred it before they were 'saved' by Europeans.

[@Mill_Jr]

@@jrfw96 I live in Brazil and in the northern region of my country, where the Amazon Rainforest is located, there are some isolated indigenous tribes, and some of them are like that, not even because they are uncontacted or something like that, it's actually by choice, they simply refuse any kind of external contact.

[@x87-64]

I am from India and let me tell you that getting to Andaman is easier than wikivoyage makes it out to be. You just need an Indian Visa and then you can just board a plane to Andaman and fill some forms when you land there.

[@joshwondra9821]

Yeah. When I worked in Siliguri, I went to north andaman for holidays and it took basically no effort. Trying to go to north sentinel with a coast guard friend was very much more difficult and didn’t end up happening, because a French guy had just tried to sneak there without permission and almost died and made a million problems for everybody

[@sujalgarewal2685]

Exactly, reaching "Andaman" is pretty easy. One thing though is that reaching any other island other that the larger ones is acually hard. It's an archipelago afterall.

[@boredgeneral770]

The last time I was this early this channel was just google maps with toycat in the corne… oh wait

[@Milliams_cars]

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[@Milliams_cars]

@Safwaan Sh bc Vg f by Dan Calais am Mf’s so

[@Jotari]

I actually reckon North Sentinel Island is easier to get to than some of those uninhabited Antarctica islands. That one American priest guy they killed managed to do it by bribing a fisherman. But to get to one of those Antarctic islands that no one ever goes to you'd have to charter your own long range plane or ship. Which is probably far more expensive than bribing a fisherman.

[@Jotari]

@Thomas Hobbs-Allen Which one?

[@Milliams_cars]

Ggh

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

I’ve always been fascinated in random uninhabited tropical island. I could just crash land there and have my own tropical paradise. This is assuming I have some or a group of people with me too because being by yourself drives you insane eventually.

[@carick235]

not if you have a ball with painted face.

[@ninagalvani1007]

Yeah me too, sounds like an adventure!

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

@Dragoș having another person to keep me company would work too

[@topiheimola69]

Well.. most of these islands are incapable of sustaining a human being for any long stretches of time. And the ones that can still have great many dangers lurkin within them. A mere cut could be fatal. Would be a cool experience for a couple of days though, given I'd know someone is coming to get me

[@chrischachach]

@@carick235 WILSOOOOOON

[@SPARKRIZZLE]

the unfortunate truth that i am in that 10% who enjoys geography

[@sk8_bort]

@@wordsmith451 It's unfortunate because she can't visit Mount Athos.

[@leviathan2137]

ok pickme xd

[@umamifan]

I took a single look at your channel and I nearly cringed to death. Wtf

[@JSG417]

Bro i look at your channel and i die of cringe

[@punchtube4539]

Same

[@Dr.Kornelius]

Wake Island is still used by Battlefield servers to host matches so military requirements are understandable

[@CAEC64]

tfw no one has good ping

[@Versace_sheets]

Parcel islands bf4 👀

[@baskoning9896]

Modern man: 'lets 'help' the people on sentinel island' ( a few moments later) 'aaaand they are all dead from diseases they have no immunity against'

[@arsens102]

The Tenessee Titans are an American Football team. You're guess made me realize how it would make so much more sense as a baseball or hockey logo though lol

[@HaydenSchiff]

pretty sure he was joking, got a good laugh out of me

[@DarthSpock9940]

I live in Tennessee so that was really weird to hear

[@kadennelms8419]

Can we just drop a couple of cameras on north sentinel island and see what happens? Get some equipment that’s been sanitized and drop it in. I’d love to see drone footage and some footage of the islanders finding a camera. I wonder how they’d react. We’re not really interfering just “losing” audio, visual equipment directly over the island. Would give us a closer look without hurting anyone.

[@May-gr8bp]

It would be very interesting. But there's so internet connection out there in the ocean, so data would need to be transferred by satellite. That technology is avaliable to us.

[@Zoobbx]

This is seriously my favorite KZbin channel right now. Keep up the great work!!!

[@BinglesP]

Is your profile picture an NFT?

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Bolshevik: Look comrade, I named an island after our October Revolution Other Bolshevik: Wow what a great idea, comrade, but what should we name this one next to it? It must be creative... Bolshevik: I know, let's name it... *AFTER OURSELVES* Other Bolshevik: You're a genius, comrade, let's go out for vodka and celebrate

[@Hyperdal]

Thank u kimmy very cool

[@addicted2caffeine]

well if he can have 3 wives and populate an entire island. then there's hope for us all.

[@Dr.Kornelius]

Isn't this how Britain was populated

[@qpSubZeroqp]

That man lived his life to the fullest. Probably had a good life

[@SkashTheKitsune]

@@Dr.Kornelius Britain populated the world this way though, take anything that's not screwed down and screw anything with a hole

[@sk8_bort]

@@qpSubZeroqp are you kidding me? Living in an isolated island with three wives sounds like hell to me lol

[@qpSubZeroqp]

@@sk8_bort it depends on how well you get along I his

[@Sleol]

After hours of scientific research me and my team have discovered that the country below Canada and above Mexico is called the “us” I hope this was helpful

[@ausatali3558]

wrong. that country is the vatican. that's where santa lives

[@john-gorenja]

its actually called Artsakh

[@Sleol]

maybe i should of spent more time researching it because i have seen two other answers now

[@drillnewsandclips3798]

the us? why would the country be named after a pronoun referring to me and one or more other person(s)?

[@john-gorenja]

@@drillnewsandclips3798 George Pickleburger (the first Prime Minister) thought that we were just us, and us if were living in a United country, we would be the us, so us is us we we is us.

[@СергейГражданский]

Actually, I can't consider Novaya zemlya as "hard to get in" place. There is even a Russian Arctic National Park for tourists. In 2019 about 1306(!) people visited the park.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Interesting fact about Wake Island: It's the original San Francisco. You're probably thinking, "How?" Well... The first European to discover the island was Álvaro de Mendaña de Neyra. Just like the city of San Francisco, it was named after Saint Francis of Assisi (it was the eve of the feast of Saint Francis when the island was discovered; it was changed to Wake when Samuel Wake visited the island in 1796). But, the island was discovered in 1568 while the city of San Francisco was founded in 1776...making the island the original San Francisco And a cool fact about Midway: It was not only a naval air station, but it is currently home to the world's oldest wild bird, Wisdom the Laysan albatross. She hatched in 1951 and since then she has laid nearly 40 eggs and at least 36 chicks. Unfortunately, her species is Near Threatened because they're accidentally swallowing plastic and from lead poisoning (due to lead-based paint on the island's structures). Of the over one million that call the island home, nearly all the albatrosses have plastic in their digestive system.

[@roxann9458]

very sad to be excluded from the ibx2cat field trip to mount athos

[@sk8_bort]

You can wait for us at the port, we'll bring souvenirs!

[@brandonm8901]

I'd heard of a New Zealand Island where the inhabitants speak with a West Country accent but didn't think it was true 😂 need to find a way to visit Palmerston somehow

[@AS-mw6pw]

Is there a video of it?

[@Barbarossa125]

They surely shouldn't mind some more genetic diversity.^^"

[@SilvanaDil]

@@Barbarossa125 - "Midsommar" 🙂

[@RobertoBC]

The perejil island is also a little bit complicated to get there. It is located in southern Spain or northern Morroco depending on who you are asking, it is a disputed territory because of what in 2002 Spain and Morroco were surprisingly closed to a war so both agreed that noone would use it.

[@helfrandalson2288]

19:25 but that calls into question what “helping” means, are we really helping if we are changing their entire way of living, making it more convenient but also making it more stressful?

[@A.Martin]

according to flat earthers, the hardest place to get to is Antarctica, aka the ice wall.

[@julianshepherd2038]

That's why so few people go there. More evidence.

[@melovekittie]

@@julianshepherd2038 lol

[@andriusgimbutas3723]

Only diabolical conspirators allowed ✋

[@ovumregia8554]

69 likes bout to ruined that

[@rbx_9]

@@julianshepherd2038 i hope your joking...

[@yarlodek5842]

Mount Athos literally has a legal “no gurlz aloud!!!1!1!!” sign and it’s amazing

[@sticlavoda5632]

I love Mount Athos. It is very important for my religion, and it makes sense. They allow girls, the great Theotokos.

[@danielgyila3662]

@@sticlavoda5632 is the great Theotokos the woman the priests prayed to in the past?

[@sticlavoda5632]

@@danielgyila3662 The Great Theotokos is the Virgin Mary.

[@danielgyila3662]

@@sticlavoda5632 ah thanks, who they worship there, dont they?

[@sticlavoda5632]

@@danielgyila3662 The Virgin Mary is a figure of veneration in Christianity yes. As in, not literal worship as that would be heresy, but prayer.

[@the_chandler]

William Marsters sounds like he lived the best life possible.

[@itzkingcringe]

“With Duolingo you can learn to become Chinese !”

[@Shivmarbal]

I learned russian and Arabic

[@palathaxx]

The country below Canada and above Mexico is called Other England, I believe.

[@xursed7990]

I'm Canadian, I think its called "New Mexico"

[@Kevbot6000]

An interesting fact about Navassa island I came across is that there is a ghost town called Lulu Town that was established to harvest guano from the island (which is the whole reason why it was claimed by the US, look up the Guano Islands Act if you’re interested). It was abandoned in 1899 because of the Spanish-American war.

[@Makkovar]

When you know your political geography but not history: "I thought we were friends, India!" :D

[@MG_Ketchum09]

That’s so cool that Ecuador was in this video. I’m half Ecuadorian my dad was born there and my grandfather was in charge of the Ecuadorian army. Also I think my great uncle was president at one point.

[@cudejorreia3308]

That’s crazy cool

[@MG_Ketchum09]

@@cudejorreia3308 thanks no one really cares when i tell them. Also sorry if it looked like I was bragging, I've never been there lol

[@ricequin]

Most countries treat visas on a reciprocal basis, so India makes it difficult for U.K. citizens because the U.K. visa is difficult for Indian nationals. That also explains why Australian nationals get so little visa-free access: almost nobody can go to Australia without a visa.

[@brandonm8901]

Mad how Ecuador accept everyone on their continent except their relatively close neighbours, Venezuela

[@ibx2cat]

do you think Venezuela have done anything wrong? Could you let me know if so in essay format?

[@LightYagami-rz7vu]

Wow what an essay

[@nojnavick]

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[@radio_marco]

@@nojnavick Even on latin. great 👍🏻(sarcasm)

[@theskiypdee]

@@nojnavick oh no, the venezuelan governement got to him!

[@ctdirect5858]

5:45 don't worry Toycat, that's Somalia. It's really hard to remember since Somalia is kinda hard to see on the map

[@p1k4ch3]

Wrong thats the country europe

[@ctdirect5858]

@@p1k4ch3 sorry, my geology isn't that good since I'm from the atlantic ocean and my plumber keeps trying to conquer Cornwall so school funding went down 70%

[@p1k4ch3]

@@ctdirect5858 oof it’s fine bro… here in south russialandia is war ukraine is attacking us with 60% organic hotdogs so I am also not doing geeatsnees

[@ctdirect5858]

@@p1k4ch3 stay safe. Don't forget to walk your turkey sandwich lest the knife people harvest your soul from their fish citadel.

[@p1k4ch3]

@@ctdirect5858 thanks. Don’t worry I won’t. My mom said that biography is veray difficult because comombia is under a chinaish land. Have a great czechiday because I am going to eat the dogs.

[@skeetersound]

Novaya Zemyla is so interesting. I love the Arctic and learning about the land both inside and surrounding, and it sucks I'll never ever get to travel to Novaya.

[@svyturysbeerlt1253]

My grandma is from there or lived there for a amount of time as her parents were in the military

[@skeetersound]

@@svyturysbeerlt1253 Cool!

[@Carewolf]

Flights twice a week, is about as complicated as getting to the Easter Island. Which is an otherwise famous destination.

[@aronenark8184]

If you like crazy stories about remote islands, might I recommend Wrangel Island off the north coast of Russia, which was the last place on earth where mammoths lived, and had a Canadian expedition to claim the island from the Soviets in 1921 during the Russian Civil War.

[@binancehighlights4038]

Also Mount Athos is closed for all female animals. Only male cats, dogs, birds, etc are allowed to be there

[@virivren]

How do they enforce that with like, birds and insects and rodents and stuff

[@NozomuYume]

The BIOT territorial dispute is kind of dumb. People act like the Chagossians were the native population who got there first, and that Europeans came and colonized it. In fact, the islands were uninhabited and the first people to settle there were French. So the original "natives" there were Frenchmen.

[@TheLocalLt]

There is always a small garrison of British Royal Navy personnel in the British Indian Ocean. They even have their own British pub, where the far more numerous American servicemen are not allowed.

[@DotJPGG]

As an ecuadorian i am proud of how accesible we are. Definitely come down, the galapagos are beautiful and diverse, the andes are breathtaking and have amazing architecture, anf the coast has cool locations and nice weather.

[@JermStone]

The Southpole comes to mind... Not that it's entirely illegal but you have to have a very special permit to get there and acquiring it would certainly be illegal for 99.99999% of us lol.

[@pamplemoo]

Flat earthers: Write that down! Write that down!

[@Default78334]

India actually has a system of internal visas for Indian nationals to travel to certain regions of the country (mostly in the northeast). It's called an Inner Line Permit. It amazed me when I learned that such a system existed in a modern, democratic nation.

[@N4CR]

It's even worse they will check freight travelling within a state at times for duty/import documents/permits for driver if commercial etc... its a complicated, ever-delayed crapfest to do biz there.

[@Shivmarbal]

Bro it's not visa im from. 🇮🇳

[@benadrylcabbagepatch2527]

As a female viewer I am quite shocked that there aren’t more of us. Ever since I was little I’ve been absolutely fascinated with learning about other countries- even now sometimes I’ll just spend hours looking at maps. Wish there were more of us out there.

[@SeaBassTean]

Not so much impossible to travel but it’s open to people who live in the UK but Jersey is hard to move to. Only people born there or married to a person born there, can live there. A KZbin I like is from Canada but live there with his wife because that’s where she was born. People can visit, like his friends from UK mainland have stayed with him in the past but wouldn’t have been able to live there.

[@gogakushayemi]

"I bet you'll make the owl happy!" Love it. lol

[@Mill_Jr]

Off the coast of the Brazilian state of São Paulo there's an island called 'Ilha de Queimada Grande', which is a small island with A LOT of a deadly species of snakes that only exist there, they estimate that there are more than 4000 snakes in an island that has an area of 43 hectares (106 acres). Only the Brazilian Navy and a few researchers are allowed to go there

[@THE_5050]

Another difficult to reach location not mentioned in this video is Jan Mayen, an island owned by Norway somewhere northeast of Iceland like 1/3 of the way to Svalbard. Most of the island is taken up by Beerenberg, the world's northernmost active volcano. The rest of the island is kind of a bumpy peninsula of sorts. I'm not completely certain on this, but I believe the only way you can get there is to be Norwegian and pay for a very expensive cruise of sorts. There's more videos on it regarding how to get there legally. I just find it interesting that this decently sized island with a massive active volcano is nearly unheard of, there is not a lot of detailed documentation online about it, at least in the English speaking sites I visited. I don't know much beyond that but all I gotta say is that I wish I was Norwegian because climbing the Beerenberg sounds amazing.

[@E4439Qv5]

EUIV Players know about it. "The Bear Has Landed."

[@theskiypdee]

I love that island, found out about it in victoria 2

[@seaneccles4891]

"If you ever want to go to Diego Garcia, a British Indian Ocean territory, you need to be a damn attractive lady from Tennessee". - Andrew, 2022

[@70n24]

Now I want to break some rules and visit one or two deserted islands. Thank you, Toycat.

[@RealGestumblindi]

I think it's great that you're using Wikivoyage for this video. It's a great project but hasn't enough visibility and contributors IMHO (nowhere near Wikipedia), but a lot of potential. It could become the ultimate travel guide, but it's not quite there. In many cases, and especially in languages other than English, often not enough detail and not updated enough.

[@january1may]

Wikivoyage is also hampered by competition with Wikitravel, which is basically the same thing except for-profit and ad-supported. Fortunately for now it seems that Wikivoyage is winning the competition, but the very existence of the split is making things harder for them. I like Wikivoyage, but I don't use it very much, because usually there just isn't enough detail. I hope it can expand further.

[@RealGestumblindi]

@@january1may Yes; as far as I know, Wikitravel was even the original project, and when it went commercial, basically the whole volunteer community left Wikitravel and created Wikivoyage. Wikivoyage is now part of Wikipedia's non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, and Wikitravel is mainly stale older content without a supporting community, but with ads. Still, for a long time, Google seemed to favor Wikitravel in its results, probably because the algorithm perceived Wikivoyage as a "copy". But now Wikivoyage is more prominent, I think.

[@RobDEV]

A new video when I'm eating lunch, awesome!

[@AhimtarHoN]

You should check out Ilha de Queimada Grande, the snake island off the coast of Brazil where only snakes live and entrance is forbidden for both our and their protection

[@Alien873]

The face on the thumbnail just made me laugh

[@エクスプローラー-e1j]

I actually visited the Paracel islands once. It’s pretty chill out there

[@zippygreff]

"I though we were friends India!" - British Politician circa 1947

[@Koopa3000]

I think that Inaccessible island also deserves to be mentioned. It's part of Tristan da Cunha which is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world.

[@jorgehaswag7294]

The problem with the sentinelese is that they don’t have the resistance to modern diseases so any contact results in their death

[@Michael-xg4hj]

I didn't know I needed this chanel until now

[@slick3996]

i’ve been lowkey obsessed with prohibited and mysterious/creepy/dangerous places all around the world, anyone has any suggestions for like a good doc or a show about these kinds of things?

[@Spacemongerr]

Bald and bankrupt went to some places that could fit that description. Many places in former Soviet Union, remote narco villages in Bolivia, cargo train across the Sahara in Mauritania are some examples.

[@slick3996]

@@Spacemongerr already binged everything Bald does :/

[@marioex497]

Tennessee Titans fan here and I just wanted to clarify that they’re an American Football team! They’re in Nashville, Tennessee. Tennessee doesn’t have a Major League Baseball team. The Arizona Cardinals are also an American Football team

[@lorenzovrolijk]

The fact that you consider increasing a civilization's technological level equal to 'helping them out' up until the point where you wonder whether it should be an imperative is mildly worrying

[@likewisebro6213]

How are you the only one saying this is what I'm worried about

[@greywolf7577]

Everyone should have the opportunity to have access to technology if they want. The people in primitive tribes cut off from the modern world don't have that.

[@likewisebro6213]

@@greywolf7577 they clearly don't want

[@greywolf7577]

@@likewisebro6213 The children are likely being taught that the outside world is evil. They only see technology when it is used against them, so of course they fear it. But if the children grew up anywhere else, I doubt they'd choose to go back to the island to live, unless it was for social reasons. It just seems unlikely that every person born on the island is the type that wants to live there and every person who is born in civilization is the type that wants to live there. Most likely it is due to socialization.

[@gsuhz41]

@@likewisebro6213 They just don't know what they want.

[@ranelgallardo7031]

For the cheerleader part, they send them there cause the NFL knows the troops are homesick in these isolated pockets. The players are too expensive and busy to send (plus they're too risky to send, if they get injured there then the team has to deal with it). So they send very attractive young women who are mostly the cheerleaders to dance and perform for the troops.

[@SilvanaDil]

I would never set foot anywhere in China. I would consider visiting the nearby independent country of Taiwan.

[@Prosper_Dean]

Good thing you have no power or you'd be sacrificing all the lovely people of Taiwan with that statement. Weirdo.

[@PrimericanIdol]

In China, you would be detained upon entry.

[@angelzavala2254]

Taiwan is a free country unlike China 🇺🇸 ❤ 🇹🇼

[@alokozay300]

Sounds paranoid, there's a lot to the world other than politics, why not visit both?

[@zazzyboy8592]

You couldn’t pay me to go to China unless I am able to pack enough food and for only 3 days

[@gyro2846]

Navassa Island is also EXTREMELY populated with snakes....venomous snakes.....with no antivenom.

[@SomasAcademy]

~19:12 The only uncontacted WHATS now? The North Sentinelese are definitely not Indo-European - that term refers to a language family that most European and North Indian languages belong to. I can only assume Toycat was somehow under the impression that that term just meant "Indians and Europeans" or something. Oh, and invading an island to give the people there modern technology against their will isn't exactly guaranteed to make their lives better lol, it might just make their lives end if we accidentally carry over any diseases they don't have any immunity to. There are worse fates than living a hunter-gatherer lifestyle on a tropical island paradise, they're doing just fine.

[@Ironbanner12]

For Andaman and Lakshadweep foreigners had to get a restricted area access, but I believe the restrictions are lifted now.

[@erikapillon4959]

You know I think that the country you forgot was Southern Canada.

[@teelo12000]

Had no idea "Palmerston Island" existed. Sincerely, someone who lives in Palmerston North New Zealand. (lol at Palmerston Island beign way way way further north than Palmerston North)

[@critique6657]

I am one of the 9.6%. Not because I am female, but because I chose "female" when creating my KZbin account, even though I am male.

[@garlkurzer]

No, youre female now

[@ananttiwari1337]

no bitches?

[@marysartr]

💀

[@sameoldsuits]

and i am one of the 9.6% because i actually am female lol

[@alvesh129]

Even the women are men here

[@jurbagarga1410]

Wake island has been featured in some games, like Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 5

[@valya56789]

i don't believe in the law none of this matters to me

[@damantx1]

There’s Brit’s in diago Garcia. I was there for 6 months in 2003. The best deep sea fishing I’ve ever done!

[@killianobrien2007]

Why does he pronounce it literally "yacht" instead of "yot"

[@dragonli1y]

Because you’ve been pronouncing it wrong your entire life.

[@RyanRediger66]

@@dragonli1y every source I can find would disagree with you. I even looked up how the British pronounce it and it’s still “yot”

[@Murmilone]

If you want to have nice nature views in Russia, you better visit Altai, North Ossetia or Kamchatka than those icy islands in the north.

[@Eniphesoj90]

Never knew geography was a male interest. I guess I am in that 10% haha.

[@greywolf7577]

I want a gender breakdown for all the KZbin channels I'm subscribed to. I'm betting that no more than 10% of the channels themselves would be majority female and only a small percentage of those would be overwelmingly female. I guess my interests are just stereotypical nerd man. Geography, history, science, politics, super hero movies, computer games, ect.

[@Eniphesoj90]

@@greywolf7577 Not sure if history is a male interest. I studied it in university and it was pretty much 50/50. I don't have typically male interests otherwise. I also follow fashion channels, so yeah. That was why I was all the more surprised.

[@Kat-gp6gj]

Same

[@SilvanaDil]

Well, Palmerston's Mr. Marsters never needed to resort to using his palm....

[@VanK782]

xD Toycat has such colonial tendencies lol. Runs in British blood apparently.

[@MRskyhiyu]

5:39 i can't tell if he's joking or he is dead serious. It is a huge surprise if he doesn't

[@mynty1978]

Same 😭

[@makiskanyt9269]

I am from Greece my father has gone to mount Athos but he told me never to go there, they literally had fascist train their shooting and they are extremely religious so even if you show the smallest atheist or other religion sight you could get in problems

[@BlockWorks]

impressed you didn't show Brazil's snake island/ilha da queimada grande

[@unfixgaming1006]

How to get to places: Mount Athos: be a guy Novaya Zemlya: be in the russian military Paracel Islands: *grind social credits*

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

So basically be a Russian guy in the military who then immigrates to Hong Kong

[@NoahBall08]

5:35 I think it’s Brazil🇿🇦 but I’m not sure

[@glauberglousger6643]

One question though, if you took a private boat out to those places, how would you be caught? I highly doubt they’d have cameras everywhere, so, You probably won’t be caught

[@radio_marco]

Naval forces?

[@glauberglousger6643]

@@radio_marco it’s probably too expensive to have a naval patrol in a place like that

[@anyways4438]

One question though, if you stole one of those ducks from the park, how would they catch you? It's not like they have GPS trackers on every single duck

[@Snp2024]

@@glauberglousger6643 don't know about others but north sentinel island is patrolled by Indian navy and cost guard bcz main port is near to sentinel island but even than some idiots slip in

[@jameshall9587]

Radar is a thing, too. Maybe you'd show up as a blip on someone's screen shortly before they send the welcome party.

[@monkey4826]

The reason why you can’t go up to that island in the thumbnail is probably because dangerous because the Tzar bomba was dropped there

[@uwuingallnight7381]

Considering how especially britain has handled "helping lesser people live better" throughout history, i say LEAVE THEM ALONE. So many cultures were destroyed it's actually revolting.

[@redryder3721]

Belt and road initiative all the way to the North Sentinelese.

[@segacedi1]

Britain already tried "helping" the inhabitants of the island but the natives they took with them to teach English all died. The people are so vulnerable to diseases that any contact with civilization could kill the entire population. That also why the Indian military let's no boats close to the islands.

[@uwuingallnight7381]

@@redryder3721 yeah, not fair of me to bash just britain tbh

[@hblackburn5580]

That Russian island he talked about, there was a danger doggo stretching in a picture and omg I want him!

[@cedrickterrick]

Good to know, that Ireland and Malta don't seem to be English speaking... ;D So then we can really remove that language from EU then...

[@Barbarossa125]

It got already removed as an official language. It's only a mere working language.

[@SilvanaDil]

Ireland and Malta aren't part of the FiveEyes.

[@psionic420]

my friend in the military is stationed at Diego Garcia. awesome to hear it mentioned in this video.

[@baskoning9896]

'why does the uk need a real visa to enter India?' hahahahahaahah... remember the problem they had with uk colonizing India? And how much effort it took to throw them out again? Well, thats why.

[@ibx2cat]

That's not the reason though, is it lol

[@greywolf7577]

I just find it funny that India is fine with Muslims from most countries coming to India with just a Visa, but if you are from Pakistan, you have to have government permission to come.

[@antjeeismann4684]

A really interesting Island that fits these criteria is Trischen. It is a part of Germany and it is illegal to visit it.

[@antjeeismann4684]

@Thomas Hobbs-Allen Bird protection Zone. From spring till the end of Summer one Guy lives there to count the Birds.

[@shittymcrvids3119]

I cannot into Mount Athos :(

[@marysartr]

😭

[@calmwithmaggie]

I'm terribly sorry for messing up your statistics 😅 I watch your videos with my boyfriend, but from under his account. Although I'm subbed to you too. Love geography and your videos! ❤

[@TheFlyfly]

Toycat, the country above Alaska and below Mexico is called America and it's the greatest country ever (and it pretty much controls the whole world). The brits tried to take it multiple times, but they keep failing because we are strong and patriotic here. America hosts many states and most people in the world know about all of them. I'm surprised that you haven't heard of America yet! It even has its own language, American. Brits can't understand our language because of how well polished, beautiful, and thought through it is compared to Inglish. Whenever I mention that we have such a great language to a brit, they instantly look confused because I always forget that not everyone is sophisticated enough to learn Jamaican and adopt it as their official language. In fact, most countries in the world (Philippines, Ireland, Alaska) speak American. This country is just beautiful. I could go on and on about all the great things it has done for the world, such as inventing cars, freeing the middle east from its dictatorship, having only 2 parties so it's simple to vote (even for brits!), building the moon, etc, etc. It's sad that you didn't know about America earlier and it's a real flaw of the world's educational system, but I hope my comment gives you all the knowledge you will ever need! Thank you and please visit sometime! Edit: For clarity, it is a common misconception that America is actually 2 countries, but I think they might be confusing the North and South for seperate countries. I wouldn't blame them. Our accents are so different that they're practically their own languages.

[@AFAndersen]

No no, America is the continent, not the country.

[@xviper2k]

@@AFAndersen America isn't a continent, it's a star and Earth revolves around it.

[@TheFlyfly]

@@AFAndersen i think it's funny that out of all the things i wrote, that's what you decided to correct me on

[@AFAndersen]

@@TheFlyfly It was more a "play along", rather than a correction, but you do you :P

[@TheFlyfly]

@@AFAndersen i realised that might have been the case as i posted the comment

[@Ca13bM]

I don't see a problem about the restrictions to Mount Athos

[@HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman]

Me being a woman I can't legally go to Mount Athos even if I wanted. It's one if those things that is supposed to be outdated but somehow isn't.

[@greywolf7577]

Women outside the Western world still have few rights.

[@autumnphillips151]

But you can illegally go there, and you should absolutely break that law if you want to.

[@autumnphillips151]

I just found an article that says that trash heap hasn’t been “violated” by the presence of a woman since the 1990s. The last woman to conquer the trash heap was a journalist named Malvina Karali, apparently. It’s way past time for someone else to follow in her footsteps (or, you know, just demolish the whole thing once and for all).

[@lukeoakridge5559]

@@autumnphillips151 Do you also think we should also shut down all women's groups (whether they be women only reading groups or women only gyms or women only sororities) because they exclude men? Or is it only male only groups that offend you?

[@autumnphillips151]

@@lukeoakridge5559 Shut them all down. But establish better protection for women from predatory men who lurk in gyms. Let every good person go everywhere they want. Destroy religious misogyny, and misogyny that masquerades as religion, and all misogyny.

[@anonymousigggsoo3664]

You should do a video on American Service-Members' Protection Act (Hague Invasion Act)

[@luluuwr]

lmao as a girl, i feel very cool to be part of that 10%

[@ichliebebaeumeweilbaum]

Same :D

[@skatingfreak1670]

Oh no!! Toycat finally did the youtube thumbnail face. What a shame. F in the chat for Toycats pride and dignity.