Continents That No Longer Exist

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[@crocodileguy4319]

I actually rebuilt Doggerland on an earth map minecraft server. Even better, I got the dirt to do it by getting rid of Denmark.

[@tieman733]

Bruh

[@crocodileguy4319]

@@tieman733 and for some reason, when a Danish person joined and saw what had conspired, they immediately blamed the British players, not me. Edit: to the people who are asking about the server, I'm sorry to say, the server is gone.

[@tieman733]

@@crocodileguy4319 that's stonks

[@hungariancountryball2928]

Add dogs in it

[@Sofus.]

Buuuuuuuuu! from DK

[@EpicnessYeet]

The existence of Pangea literally sounds like something you would see in a fictional story, such a weird thought that there was only one supercontinent. And that supercontinent was the reason of the creation of more lost continents and lost extensions (Doggerland etc.) and now it is home to continents (Asia, Europe etc.)

[@CheminisVienetas]

Truth is hidden from us, we know absolutely noting

[@jessefigueroa2682]

It wasn't the first supercontinent tho, it was the last in a long series of them. And it won't be the last forever either, because was the tectonic plates continue to move and shift, they're going to eventually all crash together again. But yeah, other than that you're right, it does sound out of a story

[@IMINSIDEYOURMUM]

History’s grandeur is awesome ‘innit?

[@YoutubeSphears]

Don’t forget lemuria

[@Mikelaxo]

It's also not the only supercontinent that has ever existed, just the most popular one. There have been more supercontinents before Pangea, and even after although not as big

[@tauceti8060]

During the recent Ice age Africa, Europe,Asia,North and South America would of been technically one super continent as the lower sea level would of allowed a land bridge on the Bering Strait.

[@quidam_surprise]

Would have, you lout.

[@Zetaaktion]

@@quidam_surprise Woah grammar nazi

[@deprivedfloozy]

@@quidam_surprise No need bro

[@asnowman9662]

@@Zetaaktion Woah, grammar nazi.*

[@asnowman9662]

@@deprivedfloozy No need bro.*

[@bibobeuba]

Who else noticed the joke of switching Australia's flag with the austrian one?

[@BabySonicGT]

I noticed it too

[@kleo5696]

i did.

[@staspastukh2005]

Me too.

[@charlsgian]

Me too

[@Im-the-X]

Me

[@shanghai276]

My grandad lived on little Diomede as an elementary school teacher with my grandmother. He lived there during the cold war era so he had a lot of great stories. He said that he could see soviet spies looking at him if he used binoculars from across the ice, and that the natives sometime traveled across the ice and talked to the Russians, and they would sometime bring messages to each other. There was also once a polar bear that lived underneath the elementary school that needed to be driven out.

[@IMINSIDEYOURMUM]

I enjoyed this story :D

[@kweejibodali3078]

Great story

[@cheemsburgr]

RIP Doggerland, best name for land ever

[@Yeosprings]

I find Doggerland interesting since if it still existed. Much of the known world today could be very different. It may of meant the British empire never went and colonised much of the world. Or it could of gave Germany in WW2 a much easier path to britain. The UK might of become a part of France, who knows.

[@N1ghthavvk]

And raiding during the viking age would've been much different too.

[@nederlandsbanaan4569]

Maybe bcc we dutchmens couldnt use our harbours

[@rolf-smit]

And would the Dutch still have conquered the sea? In the 1600's?

[@jensschroder8214]

Germans and Britons are more connected than some think. The King of Hanover was King of England for a time. The British royal family only changed their German name in WW2. If it hadn't been for this Austrian who made it to Berlin after acquiring German citizenship.

[@Periwinkleaccount]

Might have* sounds similar, is different.

[@mrtea2553]

GK: *talks about Sundaland & Sahul* Also GK: *puts austrian flag on australia*

[@XXXTENTAClON227]

I think it was a joke

[@hanselvogis5142]

@@XXXTENTAClON227 This comment is also a joke.

[@ysaww4573]

@@XXXTENTAClON227 aren’t you dead

[@mrtea2553]

@@XXXTENTAClON227 yeah exactly

[@davidvillanueva4565]

It would be incredible to know How history would work if these continents were real mainland today

[@iDeathMaximuMII]

Instead of 8 Billion People on Earth More like 20 Billion

[@ps4logic87]

Britain would have been invaded in ww2

[@markwilson4078]

Possible that Alaska might have gone to Russia if the land bridge between the US and Russia never went away, making Russia border Canada and the US only having 49 states.

[@ps4logic87]

@@markwilson4078 it was in Russia. Until they sold it to USA for like £7 million

[@markwilson4078]

@@ps4logic87 I must have forgotten that little tidbit. Nevertheless, Alaska as it is now is separated from Russia by the Bering Strait, so at least you can make clear boundaries for Alaska. I feel like if that bridge still existed, that would have made the entire thing a bit harder to negotiate. Alaska’s boundaries would have had to have been in the best of scenarios under a lot more negotiation. Maybe the US would have had to pay a lot more money, or if that didn’t work and Russia was still willing to sell Alaska, then that landmass could have gone to Canada instead. I don’t know. I just don’t think without the Bering Strait the US could have been able to acquire that state.

[@peppermann]

As always, brilliantly presented, narrated and drawn. I wish history was like this at my school in the 1970s. 😊👍

[@MyoYoneda]

I'm pretty sure history at school is kinda the same as it was in your days. Sadly.

[@sovietpingu8777]

@@MyoYoneda uh no

[@user-gg6qi2ph2c]

@@MyoYoneda qqqqqq

[@hadithelegend3358]

your a bit old?

[@peppermann]

@@hadithelegend3358 You mean “you’re”.

[@artificialascension]

Man. It's fucking wild to think about all the lost biodiversity that some of these lost continents had. All the prehistoric creatures that could have been endemic to those areas that we'd never know about because we'll never find their fossils. It's sad, almost.

[@CashytheCrash]

Bro don't swear

[@rolf-smit]

The Dutch probably already started on reclaiming Doggerland LOL.

[@Janoip]

They had a Plan for it. The Insane Dutch Plan to Dam the North Sea kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4qQeXeoncZ_kM0 Dutch proposal to dam the North Sea kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJapfqiki6p4bqc

[@MikePhoenix007]

You missed Beleriand. It sunk at the end of the first age after the war against Morgoth.

[@mr.goldenpancake9842]

My g c'mon

[@HothVeteran]

The Koniggratzer Marsch as the background music was a nice touch! Reminds me of World at War back in the day.

[@techsilver7761]

followed by Preußens Gloria ;)

[@brokkrep]

Theme: Lost continents Music: Preußens Gloria

[@Stant123]

When Doggerland was young, would we have called it Pupperland? I'll see myself out.

[@francoisnaufahu30]

Imagine if these Continents existed today, would been awesome

[@SaorAlba1970]

one point you forget millions of years ago Scotland's land mass extended beyond St Kilda, it's known known when it first submerged under the Atlantic but the sea between St Kilda and the Outer Hebrides is not much deeper than a 1,000 metres

[@jkgam3rs68]

Doggerland would be Europe, not another continent.

[@quidam_surprise]

Yes. He said that.

[@ararune3734]

@@quidam_surprise But the title is "Continents that no longer exist", these aren't continents, these are parts of existing continents that are submerged under water now.

[@eddymannylow8216]

filthy clickbait.

[@jeremiamarchellbona4692]

Yeah.And if Doggerland is exist before the UK born.The British will eazy being defeated by Napoleonic France and Nazi Germany at war.

[@exoticmeefy]

@@ararune3734 some were continents

[@isobutylformate8287]

*Lost Continents* 1) 2:32 Zealandia: Around New Zealand 2) 3:47 Doggerland: Around Europe 3) 5:58 Beringia: Between Asia and North America 4) 7:03 Sundaland: Unite Malaysia Thiland and Indonesia 5) Sahul: Connect Australia with parts of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Tasmania 6) 7:43 Mauritia: Between India and Madagascar 7) 8:20 Kerguelen Plateau: Connect Kerguelen Islands, Heard and McDonald Island Antarctica

[@adamjones6308]

I wouldn't exactly call Doggerland a continent, just a part of continental europe.

[@anne-marie8018]

You always have such interesting content, and you make it easy to understand. Very enjoyable!

[@reptileremoval8092]

Great job ! Very compelling and accurate. Please do another segment on lost continental areas of known and potential past b.c. 14,000 - 7000.

[@grooving2music]

This was especially well done. One of my favorites!

[@BabySonicGT]

I like how he accidentally put Austria’s flag in Australia

[@MyoYoneda]

Didn't see that. Love it!!! 😁

[@jameswatson5807]

When I was a lot younger I used to get those countries confused 😁

[@danharvey3096]

The interesting thing about Zealandia is that it clearly sunk, but i think it's actually rising again. As a South Islander from Christchurch i know all about earthquakes lol, from experiencing 4 above 6 in 2 years during our sequence (15,000 aftershocks). And then the stresses from that sequence which shifted tension onto nearby faults leading to neighbouring sequences 2 & 4 years after ours settled down, including the 2018 Kaikoura Earthquake (I was in Australia at the time). Which was actually 12 faults going off like a zip all at once to create a much bigger quake, so powerful that it created uplift up to 12m high in parts, forming land extensions & new reefs. Just absolutely insane. So yeah i got pretty geeky on geology haha! And so an interesting fact i learnt was that the Southern Alps have the biggest uplift of any alps in the world, it's just that the geology of the rocks, the climate, & the constant wind & rain being in the roaring 40s, means that they erode almost as fast as they grow, which of course creates new plains like the Canterbury Plains. But every year the alps are pushed up by 1 meter, which is just insane when you think of it. If they eroded even half as fast with that same amount of uplift, the mind boggles how high they would be. Back to Kaikoura, the 2018 Kaikoura Earthquake demonstrates exactly how those mountains in Kaikoura can be so high right next to the sea, they're literally being pushed up right out of it. And that's how you get a 2600m mountain (MT Manakau only 14km inland) so close to the sea. So when you consider that, i think it's fair to say that Zealandia is actually rising back up, or at least parts of it.

[@Samsonig]

bro what the fuck

[@danharvey3096]

@@Samsonig Pretty crazy hey! Geology bro.. Way more power than you or I lol.. Way more power than we can even comprehend.. Litterally the ability to build or destroy landmasses, sometimes in real time..

[@ItzCoopzFtw]

@@danharvey3096 I remember seeing some photos of the uplift, thought to myself "yeah that's a little, maybe 3 feet" until I saw an engineer standing next to the uplift and it was about 3 metres higher than his head 😂

[@kirill6850]

I like the Königsgrätzer Marsch in the background👍and Preußens Gloria, very nice man

[@colonelarrow8031]

Very interesting! Also loved the Austria/ Australia flag thing😂

[@mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150]

Congrats on your channel. Always learning with your videos.

[@Brakevan817]

Doggerland seems cool, I wonder what it would be like if it was still a place and had cities and roads like other places

[@memeboi6017]

Just realized at 7:20 the background music is the hohenfriedberger march, kudos to you for that.

[@lukefriesenhahn8186]

The fact that my ancestors lived in Doggerland is amazing.

[@vitorsavastano2021]

Congratulations for this video! As a geologist, I found your explanations impecable. If you still have issues about the crustal thining process, I can explain it! Em português, inclusive. Saudações brasileiras!

[@AdarshKumar-nj7rp]

If these continents existed above sea level today, the world would've been very different. For example, the seclusion of Great Britain and Ireland from mainland Europe provided it stability as it was relatively difficult to invade as compared to other countries.

[@diongibbs312]

If it was here in the 1940s Hitler would have triumphed.

[@akuriki2420]

Preußens Gloria in the background is the chefs kiss

[@thysoox1315]

casually playing preußens gloria in the background. a man of culture :)

[@tobistg6]

Austrian flag turning into Australia, i love it hahah

[@robinvisschers7618]

3:24 ehm, what about New Caledonia?

[@ivanborsuk1110]

part of zealandia

[@jkobstube4314]

GK: *talks about lost continents that disappeared tens of thousands of years ago* In the background: *Preußens Gloria intensifies*

[@MrSuperMichel1997]

'Dogger' in Dutch is said with the Dutch G, so how we pronounce it in Dutch words and the alphabet is how we use it in the word for the boat. Great video though, thank you very much! Always found this type of content very interesting!

[@Skeletone56]

If doggerland still existed, napoleon would've probably had a better fight against the british

[@thefreshvince879]

If doggerland existed, the Germans would of invaded way earlier and Rome might of united the Germans under the shared threat of the steppe tribes the Germans were facing that was causing them to be pushed into roman territory. The Germans basically became romans eventually, so it would be easy really if they could. If Germans are Roman , then Rome can't fall when any German takes control. Aka west Rome doesn't fall

[@justpok3285]

WW2 would've been very different

[@Nikioko]

The English Channel actually once was the mouth of a super river which was charged by the Rhine, Thames and Seine rivers.

[@ochacouraraka9172]

I just finished listening Prussian marches, and I thought it still keep playing in my mind as I watch this

[@dosxic]

General Knowledge is so underrated.

[@scottyskywalker5768]

Fun fact middle earth also had part if it sunk into the sea in the 1st age Which is why it's a perfect place to shoot in the lord of the rings .

[@benjaminprietop]

If Beringia still existed, the Cold War would've been significantly shorter 😅

[@quidam_surprise]

I don't think history would have played out the same way though 😕

[@gabrielbader9057]

Great video! 👍 Also, what is the background song for Beringia? 5:58

[@ckl9390]

There's also the entire area of the Mediterranean that was above water surface at various points in history through a combination of ocean volume and relative elevation of the landmass.

[@OGmindreset]

i like the background music near the end

[@OpaSpielt]

03:24 "New Zealand is the only part of the old continent to be above water." New Caledonia is part of that old continent too, as you mentioned later. Besides that, I would recommend changing the title. "Landmasses that no longer exist" would be more correct and more precise, because some of the landmasses are for sure no lost continents. Thanks for the video 🖐🏼👴🏼

[@raypeters4525]

VERY CORRECT SIR !

[@mikaheijdemwoan4364]

I love the song in the background 'Prußens Gloria'

[@lucasaquino123]

Make a video on European Nature Reserves! The larger ones, or the most interesting ones

[@caiovalentim4289]

North America and South America are one continent.

[@jn5171]

In real sense, the main continent is America, Africa & Asia

[@erdnasiul87]

É um orgulho saber que um dos youtubers com melhor qualidade de conteúdos no mundo é português! Parabéns!

[@hotman_pt_]

@Ebenezer merdaseu

[@decombobulated27]

I always love this portuguese references in every video. Continua o bom trabalho pá.

[@pablodelsegundo9502]

I don't think the Sakha (Yakut) people were anywhere near the area when Beringia existed. They had several migration waves from the southwest of Yakutia to their current homeland much later, or so I was taught.

[@fidel1803]

If so, thus Arctic Ocean was completely isolated from the rest of world's oceans. Like a lake.

[@TheSteveRobinson]

Doggerland is not a continent. It was part of Europe until the end of the last Ice Age but as it was low lying, it flooded over time.

[@kweejibodali3078]

Golden Compass book by Philip Pullman, also made into a film, the book refers to a Doggerland not necessarily by name but to an alternate reality where England is joined by waterways and bits of land covering the entire areas between, And peoples who live hidden in these marshy lands and waterways .. quite fascinating, Thats the first time i heard of a kjnd of Doggerland

[@Tsirkon]

7:16 lol nice one

[@krysinator4657]

I wolud love if kerugelen plateau existed until today. I think it would be similar climate as europe and that is cool.

[@madimetjamahlatse9270]

You also have to mention that that number of continents really depends on wat you define as a continent or at least how ur country defines it.. The are 4 continents in my opinion The America's Eurasia Africa Oceania

[@yaznkji]

In my opinion , there are 7 continents?

[@tadas047]

5 continents - Africa, Eurasia, America, Antarctica, Austarlia-Oceania 7 "parts of the world" (in czech it's called světadíl) - Africa, Europa, Asia, North America, South America, Antarctica, Australia-Oceania

[@madimetjamahlatse9270]

@@yaznkji Europe does meet the definition of a continent..

[@yaznkji]

@@madimetjamahlatse9270 yes it do.

[@juanantonio2755]

6 continents: America, Europe, Asia, África, Oceania and Antarctica

[@maartenbernhard7663]

3:53 the dutch: see thats were you are wrong buddy

[@ZealandiaMapping]

2:32 - Oh look, it's me! :D

[@civfanatic8853]

You forgot Oceania, the continent formed from all the islands between Asia and Australia and having within countries like the Philippines, Indonesia...etc ;) ;)

[@quidam_surprise]

Nah

[@AshtoinePH]

0:08

[@Turdfergusen382]

Great video. Atlas Pro has some good content on that s subject as well

[@geraldmeehan8942]

Thank you for such a unique topic

[@slyasleep]

Oh, I remember vividly when Sundaland went down. Wasn‘t even that long ago. Nowadays not even Roy Keane feels able to set foot there.

[@danielberry1877]

good one

[@mountainjew1474]

Bring back Doggerland!!!!

[@Iamtheliquor]

Sundaland still exists…… Its south of Newcastle 😂

[@martinezclau]

Muito bom. Mas e a extensão da América do Sul? Acrescentaria bastante território ao continente, não? Além de que criaria uma outra questão territorial para o Reino Unido: uma fronteira terrestre com a Argentina. Já que faltou esse pedaço aqui, que tal fazer um episódio especial sobre esse pedaço? Um abraço. Very good. But how about South America's extension? It would add a lot of land to the continent, right? Besides, It would be interesting to see how the land border between Argentina and the UK would look like. Keep it coming.

[@pawer_themaw]

Imagine these continents still existing today... at the VERY least in a roleplay mapping game thingy... my dream.

[@Velnar.]

I dont know why, but Doggerland is just a whole vibe of its own😂

[@josueveguilla9069]

Continents that never existed (Phantom Continents).

[@yahallo5343]

Imagine doggerland hasn't sunked and there's a Doge race battling Great Britain

[@mailboro]

Now i understand what is meant by doggiestyle

[@leekelly9639]

Technically it’s 6 continents if you put Europe and Asia as one continent called Eurasia..

[@vilena5308]

Technically there is no universal agreement about the number of continents. Which is a bit bizarre when you think about it. ^^; There are definitely differences in various textbooks all over the world on how many continents there are. I mean, geographically North and South America are connected by land. So it should be one continent. However, they are on different tectonic plates so we consider them separate. Eurasia is sometimes counted as one continent; yet no one is excluding India which is on a separate plate. So the logic that works for Americas doesn't apply here.

[@manjensen1710]

@@vilena5308 True, for Spanish speakers, "América" includes both North America and South America in one continent.

[@uaskcred]

the number of continents is subjective. some may consider only 5 continents. America for example can be considered just one land as opposed to two

[@Janoip]

Yes, it depends on the model you take. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent

[@atlas567]

6 Continents. AMÉRICA EUROPA ÁSIA AUSTRÁLIA E ANTÁRTIDA

[@uaskcred]

@@atlas567 that's only 5! 😂😂😂

[@atlas567]

@@uaskcred EURASIA?

[@uaskcred]

@@atlas567 that'd be 4... can you even count 🤣🤣🤣

[@Lucas-cf5ro]

Do I hear preußens Gloria in the Background or at least at 8:24

[@jeremythomas5640]

You did a good job of explaining that for someone who “doesn’t really understand what all that means”. It’s basically a reverse of how mountains are made. Instead of crunching together, it spread itself thin. 👍🏻 But I understand, if somebody asked me what that was verbatim, I’d be like, idfk 🤷🏻😂

[@lennito5]

'ia' means 'land' in Latin. So Zealandia is literally means Zealandland

[@glatios]

Probably so it sounds “cooler” or something than just Zealand.

[@deutschekanadische]

stan means land of stanistan is land of the land of

[@elcucuy1770]

U missed out lemuria man It's a continent which joins the Indian subcontinent to Madagascar and there are some evidences found in stones in Mauritius. Check it out

[@everdream741]

Hard to believe legendary events.

[@AvenYuh]

I only knew about zealandia. But after I saw this video, I knew more.

[@majbattmd]

Impossible! Our climate and geography have always been and are supposed to be static - and we should impose all measures necessary to attempt to maintain a static earth and climate

[@luigibenni3449]

We can cut and rename continents as we like, they are just conventional names after all, but don't you think it's ridiculous to consider north and south America as two different continents instead of two parts of the same continent? You don't need to copy the US school system here...

[@quidam_surprise]

Yeah. Even though I get that these vids are mostly adressed to an audience from countries using that particular convention, it still seems pretty darn silly to, just, assert a set number of continents on Earth like that if you're going to make a video about them.

[@GenialHarryGrout]

Karl Bushby has walked across the ice covered Bering Strait during his attempt to walk from the bottom of South America to the UK.

[@user-ux9sh8oi3k]

8:42 ahh the 2nd best music ever

[@andytaus1939]

Australia IS the CONTINENT. Oceania is a REGION (Australia + New Zealand, New Guinea, some other South Pacific islands).

[@tadas047]

We learned it in school as Australia-Oceania

[@joaopedrocruz6432]

Depends on the place normally in latin America for example the continent is Oceania not Australia.

[@jacksonpettit4690]

Isn't Zelandia a separate continent

[@VL1975]

6500 BC...about the time Noah's Flood happened. So it's no wonder most of these "continents" don't exist anymore. There were shifts in the earth's plates etc when the flood happened.

[@xetoxv2]

For some people Doggerland / Doggerbank is the "atlantean territory" and the island of heligoland is what it remains from Thula the last bit of doggerland (Which is interesting is the plato's description, he talks about people trading copper and amber (orichalcum) so the north, at the end of a big river (the Elbe) and big red cliff (so heligoland (Denmark)) Sorry for my english level I m better than you... euh I m french ! :p

[@Hession0Drasha]

It's funny when people try to say that culture is an unchanging monolith. When the planet itself changes so drastically. Like trying to shout down a hurricane.

[@jameswatson5807]

Yeah those jokers do not get that nothing last forever in time everything changes.

[@majinbuuthemenace]

nice

[@Windom138]

When you said 65 thousand B.C. was not that long ago, the chart listed 65 hundred B.C. (6500 B.C.). Not being a stickler, I love these videos. You said to comment with any possible corrections.

[@jairoesquivel427]

Imagine the 6 continents + those, its crazy

[@mohamedshihadeh4817]

7:15 nice save bro

[@randomviever]

7:17 Austria flag and then changed to Australia flag that was so funny

[@SalsaShakers]

I don't understand much of this video. Must be my age. LoL But the graphics are just brilliant 👏

[@Abmasce]

8:12 nice preussen gloria music

[@planetballuniverse2108]

2:34 Gondwana is Canada and europe and that image is laurasia