Finding the Source of the Nile River

[@_RM99]

We already know James May was the one that found it though

[@Left_Behind]

True

[@tarekaouimeur4876]

With a Volvo estate 😅

[@leastconcern4152]

Lol, that episode is the first thing i thought when I read the title.

[@c0ccaldera]

Came here for this comment

[@cozzaronero]

I see there is a Top Gear lads meeting here

[@chakraborty1989]

The fact that Diogenes was indeed right, and Ptolemy wasn't betrayed by believing his tale is truly heartwarming.

[@SnailHatan]

Finally someone who says “the fact that” and actually gives a complete thought afterwards. I must be dreaming

[@algernon5177]

This channel has been growing ever since. The fact he started showing his face might entail more in the future. For a geography nerd, this channel is a gold mine

[@lonestarr1490]

Yeah. This channel is basically the inverse of a glacier.

[@SirSpartAfterDark]

same cant be said for the african glaciers

[@jtn81x]

Yeah, let's hope he shows more than his face. I agree.

[@brentclark7374]

@@jtn81x Ditto

[@nothayley]

@@jtn81x bonk

[@xavierkmuneku]

David Livingstone died from dysentery and malaria on 1 May 1873, at the age of 60, in Chief Chitambo's Village in North Rhodesia (now Zambia). His heart is buried in Africa, under a Mvula tree (now the site of the Livingstone Memorial), but his remains are buried at Westminster Abbey.

[@d.esanchez3351]

Yep, that sounds like a pretty good burial combo. Take the man to the hall of dead heroes but keep the heart where he died trying.

[@lontongtepungroti2777]

amazing

[@catsdogswoof3968]

He dint get to play zeldore

[@thekinsalestory]

I climbed Mt.Stanley with my girlfriend, now wife, back in 1982. I've just been through my collection of diaries and letters to confirm this. In the same century it was first climbed. This is a little more encouragement to produce something of my two years traveling in Africa then (and the rest). Thank you Atlas Pro, I appreciate your work.

[@theassassin9326]

Did you being in Ethiopia and Algeria?

[@samconti3282]

I remember when Caelan hadn't even shown his face, now he's got a whole set for himself. My baby boy is becoming a man 🥲 Seriously, love how much you've grown the channel over the years. Keep up the good work.

[@ILikedGooglePlus]

+

[@learnmaths3329]

Ikr

[@myrkurefni2398]

@@learnmaths3329 Ikr

[@gmsteele44]

Caelan is a cool name, too.

[@matthewberry8516]

Yeah I subbed at 10,000... a week later he had over tripled his subs and now here he is at almost a million

[@patrickryan4690]

Hey man, Im currently studying Geoscience in college along with a lot of biology/ecology modules and your videos have been fantastic at helping me with my work and for helping me learn more!

[@6099x]

Also, I feel like the format is very helpful in learning how to structure thoughts and findings in a compelling way 🙌

[@svntn]

these videos and a couple others saved my highschool advanced science classes😂 no way i’d pass without the goats who make this kind of content.

[@patrickryan4690]

@@svntn mad respect goes out to them.

[@guy_above_me_is_ugly]

Yooo, same! I love being in class and already knowing a bunch of these things because of this and many other channels.

[@marisp2588]

Haha I remember using the "When the Sahara was Green" video to help me write one of my 4th year papers (full credits ofc)!

[@MCjossic]

I found this channel about a week ago, and now I'm just binging everything. this is some top quality stuff!

[@KSM_bruh]

Gt

[@KA-tu2em]

I did the same thing last year when I found it

[@ArtisticlyAlexis]

I'm almost jealous! I wish I had that much new Atlas Pro videos to watch!

[@t-rey1312]

This was me last year!!!

[@GrandeSalvatore96]

Welcome to the AP family!

[@adamk4775]

Have you ever thought about how amazing it is that people hundreds or even thousands of years ago drew such accurate maps of the world without satellite imagrie. Well, they had a few misses here and there but the shape of the continents and countries in maps closer to the modern era is really similar to what we can see on google earth.

[@JKTProductionzIncNCo]

The oldest "maps" are only around 2K to 2.5K years old. Kind of recent when you think about it.

[@catsdogswoof3968]

And they aren't accurate to terrain and don't have to be they show locations

[@kendenisco4097]

Accuracy north-to-south has been good for a long time by using the stars. It was the east-west direction that caused the big problems. You need accurate time keeping over long times for good accuracy.

[@kets4443]

Ptolemy was Egyptian so knew the Nile, meanwhile his rest of the world was poor like the so-called "Dragon's Tail"

[@sapanparekh3327]

Caelan, you are an incredible story-teller. I'm always really impressed by how you script it all out, and the lesson of this video took me by surprise. I'm sharing this with the many faculty at my college interested in climate change. Thanks for your great work!

[@bobsmith8124]

Lol! Please don’t ... it will be embarrassing. This guy gets a lot wrong... mostly about “climate change “, quite funny when he said”over 100 years of climate data” 😂... so funny. I encourage you to look into the weathering of the Sphinx ... climate changed all the time. Wake up! Or do you need a carbon tax? Haha

[@alexrossouw7702]

Stanley also uttered the most British statement ever: "Dr Livingstone I presume", after finding him missing in the middle Africa.

[@vincentcleaver1925]

So, basically he was trolling the Brits...

[@alexrossouw7702]

He was Welsh at one point

[@kingt0295]

@@vincentcleaver1925 no?

[@firstconsul7286]

@@vincentcleaver1925 What American wouldn't?

[@razzledazzle488]

@@firstconsul7286 Stanley was a British immigrant to America though, if you think he was trolling himself

[@vattentaelt]

Ptolemy was the atlas pro of his time, brilliantly grandstanding, I love it

[@ILikedGooglePlus]

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[@Napoleonic_S]

he didn't really say which one though :p , there was actually an entire dynasty with that name.

[@dmcgee3]

@@Napoleonic_S Claudius Ptolemaeus. The Ptolemy. It was a common Greek name and while he was probably Roman, he’s absolutely the one everyone thinks of when you hear it. The Ptolemaic Dynasty is completely separate thing that shares what at the time was a pretty common name. Much like Alexander is still a common name, we all instantly know The Alexander

[@vask3863]

@@dmcgee3 Ptolemaeus was & is a Greek Family name/surname. Alexander(Αλέξανδρος) is a first name. Don't mix them up.

[@bismanaufa5618]

Ibn Batutta

[@OwlRTA]

The fact that the Mountains of the Moon existed after all when it seemed like an urban legend was quite the twist I didn't expect. Usually with these "guesses" of what the unknown is is usually wrong, and when Ptolemy pushed the theory of the Mountains of the Moon being the source of the Nile, I thought it would be like his Geocentric model.

[@lulzdragon7339]

Well, water running out of mountains into lakes and rivers isn't exactly unique to the Nile. It's how pretty much every river in the world forms.

[@frenchbreadstupidity7054]

It's one of those cases where natives' oral history reached outsiderd and got changedbup then interpreted as myth.

[@aaronmarks9366]

@boy Afrika Oh I'm certain that the land that ancient merchant had reached was indeed Rwanda, and the Rwenzori Mountains

[@aaronmarks9366]

@boy Afrika That's awesome. I really hope African history and African cultures will be more widely known around the world in the coming years thanks to African content creators. Maybe 10 years from now there will be R-Pop (Rwanda) that will be as big as K-Pop is today ;)

[@saxmaster45]

@@aaronmarks9366 Africa could be the most prosperous continent on the planet with its abundant land and natural resources. History is full of examples of people rising from the bottom to the top and vice versa.

[@BigWoobiez]

I have to say, I know this is an old video, but it is still one of my absolute favorites of all time! This is my go to topic/story when I want to hook someone into talking about geography and history! Such a great channel, keep doing the amazing things, turning learning about our world and history into an engaging story!

[@Callaxes]

Casting WonderWhy as David Livingstone was a genius move.

[@kevincronk7981]

15:10 he didn't claim it for Belgium and by extension himself, he claimed it for himself and by extension Belgium. It was only made actually Belgium's rather than simply his personal property a while later where even by the standards of the Belgians, who were probably the most brutal colonizers in the scramble for Africa, he was going too far and treating people too horribly. And honestly the fact that they had this line is in a way kind of worse than if they didn't. It's not just that they were so racist they convinced themselves Africans weren't even people, they just had so little care (or so much contempt) for these fellow human beings they were willing to treat them so brutally

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

He also used donations from humanitarian organizations that were supposedly being run to counter the East African slave trade around the Great Lakes to fund his expeditions in Africa in which natives were made to sign away their autonomy to him.

[@eustache_dauger]

He almost made a purchased on the kingdom of Sarawak in Borneo. But luckily for the people there, the English king then, James Brooke who was the personal sovereign of the land has the foresight to ignore his offer.

[@chippysteve4524]

Yep its like saying "Britain controlled the opium trade" is actually saying Queen Victoria got all the profits from getting China addicted to opium. History = 'HIS' story.Usually unrelated to 'the truth'!

[@kaikart123]

Someone just learn what "The Royalty" means

[@DMWayne-ke7fl]

@@chippysteve4524 OK boomer. Keep saying cringe ahistorical truths and etymologies.

[@janmelantu7490]

“He got the attention of King Leopold II” nothing good ever comes from getting Leopold 2’s attention

[@TheAurelianProject]

I believe Leopold II is only surpassed by Hitler and Stalin for the being responsible for the most amount of death in history.

[@nathanahern2999]

@@TheAurelianProject Ghengis Khan and Mao Zedong killed more people the both Hitler and Stalin.

[@KateeAngel]

@@TheAurelianProject to be honest "people killed by Stalin" estimates are often weird and exaggerated. Almost as if some people just count every person who died in USSR during 30-year Stalin rule due to any reason as "casualty of stalinist regime". This does nothing to highlight the real brutality of GULAG and nothing to honour memory of its real victims. Mostly used by people who want to blindly hate on USSR or excuse right-wing dictatorships by claiming left-wing dictatorships killed more. They want to prove their ideologies, not to learn what actually happened. There are also some tankies who just underestimate the number of victims, or excuse such brutality, like wtf. It is very hard to find objective estimates.

[@KateeAngel]

@@nathanahern2999 if we counted as a percentage of population probably many ancient/medieval rulers caused more deaths than 20th century ones. Only if we count numbers 20th century stands out, because the world population itself was much larger than before

[@nathanahern2999]

@@KateeAngel No, Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward happened in the late 50’s and early 60’s which is after Hitler and Stalin. Here are the numbers: Mao Zedong- 78mil Genghis Khan- 40mil Stalin- 23mil Hitler- 17mil Léopold II- 15mil

[@bethoniewaring]

Love the large amount of colouring pencils solidifying your position as a geographer.

[@chippysteve4524]

Filling in the gaps in our knowledge with brightness and contrast.

[@ticksunbs4944]

He is an artist

[@semaj_5022]

Yo I absolutely loved this video. The topic, stories, info, and how you presented them were great. I think this is my favorite since your Ice Age series and that's saying something. I'd definitely enjoy more videos in this sort of style, with some more classic Atlas Pro style vids continuing as well. Great job and I loom forward to the next journey!

[@koantao8321]

Contributions to the Nile are from all over the area. In Burundi, for example, tourists are guided to the source of the Nile and there is no question about the fact that the water eventually will reach the Nile.

[@limofootball]

Shut up. The source of the Nile is lake Victoria in Uganda.

[@y__h]

James May found the True Source of Nile™.

[@MrKholishUmar]

James May and two other blokes

[@lorisperfetto6021]

Nice

[@fishingfan1500]

I thought that as soon as I read the title

[@GUSCi-BDE]

Hey i also covered the time-lapse of east Africa on my channel if you dont mind checking it out kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmS9oGVop8RlipY

[@lorisperfetto6021]

@@fishingfan1500 me too

[@jacobchencarrasco2959]

I’d love to see more videos like this. It’s crazy how one question can have such a profound effect on the world.

[@thefruitoflife3568]

I 100% agree! 😀 I am a history and geography nerd so to get both packed into one amazing story, and then add profesional and satisfying images (the way you do it) to get an good idea of what things look like, it all makes for one awesome video!

[@OriginalCreatorSama]

My question is "What happens if the Nile dries up?" because it certainly seems like that's a possibility from this video.

[@TheAmazingKoki]

Nice addition to the quinine bit: they put it in a tonic at the time to make it more palatable, resulting in today's tonic water you can buy in the supermarket and mix with gin. Nowadays it still contains quinine.

[@janmelantu7490]

They had to add sugar because Quinine is bitter af

[@crispyandspicy6813]

also quinine is fluorescent, it glows under UV light, and so does tonic water.

[@alberts8696]

Is that why the bottle of tonic water always says “contains quinine?” Cause of the quinine in it?

[@emilen2]

@@alberts8696 Are you sure that is a question? 😀

[@janmelantu7490]

@@alberts8696 yeah, it’s the same Quinine

[@Wouterium]

Honestly, this is the kind of story I have been missing from youtube for some time, at least on the geological side of things. Keep it up!!

[@motazabdelazeem3533]

This is the second or third time I watched it and still enjoying it during last years, Thanks Motaz from Sudan

[@tayperrygagianajepsenlordl944]

Honestly, whenever you upload, it automatically becomes a good day. I was really sad today but as soon as you uploaded, I became happy. This topic has always frustrated me as a geography nerd. Looking forward to seeing the video

[@RomilGorka]

haha same channels like this and real life lore are quite addictive

[@thisaintraph]

@@RomilGorka tbh this is in my binge worthy channels list

[@chippysteve4524]

Like anyone sailing in a croc-infested river,you may want to look at taking responsibility for your own buoyancy ;-)

[@arnewind]

This is one of your best video's so far: imagining the thrill of seeing all these new area's on an undocumented continent together with the brilliant illustration of the way the climate is heading... just wow!

[@m4ts50]

Can we expect more island videos? Studying island biography and geography right now. I highly recommend researching Papua New Guinea, as it’s very interesting seeing how there is still much more to discover on the earth we live on. Anyways love the videos and good work! Keep it up!

[@An_Ian]

Work at the national aviary I agree with the New Guinea statement The Victorian Crown Pidgins (or discount peacocks as I call them) are a perfect example of island gigantism and thats just tip of the iceburgh

[@dorian4646]

We got one this week!

[@doesmoes]

Came for the stories and your relaxing voice. Left with an odd sense of amazement on how well paced you transitioned to a more urgent topic

[@royrogers3133]

The earth was significantly warmer just a couple thousand years ago than it is today. Greenland used to be habitable and Vikings described Canada as warm.

[@FrierenIsGoated]

Everyone knows that "James May is the first to ever discover the source of the river nile™"

[@Bhatakti_Hawas]

U beat me to it

[@FrierenIsGoated]

@@Bhatakti_Hawas i didn't someone beat me to it but i just wrote it and changed it a bit and somehow got 28 likes

[@Dfathurr]

Yes indeed, Captain Slow is the one who found the true source of river nile

[@enqrbit]

Here I thought I would watch a video about the Ethiopian Highlands and the Blue Nile for contributing with 85% of the Nile's water and 59% of Egypt's in particular.

[@rediettadesse2828]

I assume ancient egyotian and ethiopians knew about blue nile This is a discovery of white nile by the explorers .. they also made a mistake by thinking white nile makes more volume than the blue And they thought that white nile was the source and provided much more water

[@limofootball]

Well, the video says source of the Nile and not blue Nile. Since white Nile has the farthest source, it makes sense. And why bring up volume? 😂

[@LePedant]

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May found the source of the Nile years ago. In station wagons, nonetheless.

[@FrierenIsGoated]

Only James May found it and there were his 2 of his followers that found it later

[@Moray2023]

Technically they were estate cars as it's a British TV show.

[@horacegentleman3296]

Ew

[@jimbochungus]

Dilate

[@MorganHJackson]

Man, what a journey. Great video dude, that covered so many interesting aspects about this question!

[@ethanomcbride]

“Ptolemy was the Atlas Pro of his time” This dude has ZERO trouble with his self esteem

[@Lorand0O]

An interesting subject yet again. Keep up the good work!

[@GUSCi-BDE]

Hey i also covered the time-lapse of east Africa on my channel if you dont mind checking it out i would really appreciate it so much kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmS9oGVop8RlipY

[@bachopinbee5991]

Started fof the source of Nile, ended up getting so sad fof our continent in particular. That was some content!

[@berwinenzemann3468]

Every ancient egyptian knew the source of the Nile River was in the heavens.

[@WanderTheNomad]

Mount Targon

[@rediettadesse2828]

And heaven is ethiopia

[@HooodClassicsTV]

@@rediettadesse2828 Sudan

[@ebrimajallow9631]

They knew Sudan was a country, it was called Kingdom of Kush, so no not Sudan

[@TomTom-rh5gk]

I liked this video so much I saw it twice. This is something I never do. I love to see you talking. Good job.

[@Drewengtheway]

I don't wait for the video to even start before hitting like. That's how much I trust your videos are amazing.

[@youngkim5909]

Anxiety, fear and insecurities. These are the sources of the Nile. I'll see myself out...

[@xylonbanda]

Good. Don't come back.

[@nathanpangilinan4397]

14:57 It is hard to be part of the first wave of colonialism when you only became independent in 1830.

[@GUSCi-BDE]

Hey i also covered the time-lapse of east Africa on my channel if you dont mind checking it out kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmS9oGVop8RlipY

[@Jablicek]

Being unable to participate in the first round of colonisation doesn't excuse doing it, and with worse outcomes for the colonised.

[@Xavier-fk7wm]

Egypt was colonized ever since they never get ab independence before the British.

[@koraptd6085]

But in return they became the most ruthless rulers of Africa, yay.

[@nathanpangilinan4397]

@@Jablicek, I agree.

[@adamlatosinski5475]

If Livingstone didn't come back, how do we know whether Stanley actually found him?

[@stephenwodz7593]

Maybe he brought back something personal of Livingstone's.

[@dakinnie]

Also, Livingstone himself makes note of the encounter in his journal which was recovered and returned to the UK after his death.

[@jamestang1227]

Also, Livingstone's black followers made an enormous effort to bring his body back to the UK so obviously they knew Stanley found him. There are even photos of them in the UK.

[@xavierkmuneku]

David Livingstone died from dysentery and malaria on 1 May 1873, at the age of 60, in Chief Chitambo's Village in North Rhodesia (now Zambia). His heart is buried in Africa, under a Mvula tree (now the site of the Livingstone Memorial), but his remains are buried at Westminster Abbey.

[@limofootball]

​@@jamestang1227"black followers"? Where were the white followers? These were just native people and no, they didn't follow him around. Those were just guides and most had shit to do so couldn't embark on a whole journey with some dude from nowhere. Once they got him to the next village, they'd find him new guides.

[@MisterPoro]

I don’t want to be that person but Atlas Pro you’re a very handsome man. Been subbed for like 2 years and I will admit I didn’t expect you to have such a handsome face. Your videos are also spot on. Love them

[@TheBigRedskull]

Excellent video with an excellent conclusion. Keep up the great work Caelan!

[@fuscus66]

The quality of your content is getting better with every new video.

[@briangarrow448]

Love the soundtrack and the narration. Memories of my 7th grade world geography class. Shout out to the sweathogs of Mr. Fairchilds geography gang!

[@saulisillanpaa1092]

The drawing of Frederick Russel Burnham is actually of Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout movement.

[@bearcubdaycare]

More info than I knew. I wasn't aware of Livingstone's thoughts on slavery.

[@crystalwolcott4744]

"That Merchant Diagonies," is so funny it kills me every time he says it.

[@Voicelet]

I was wondering why you sound really like WonderWhy when reading that journal. Wow, it was really him. So it's you who summoned WonderWhy back for his latest video.

[@TakeWalker]

This was a fun surprise. :D

[@RyuuNoSenshi]

amazing video! would love to see more videos like this containing the other 90% of information you found about this topic that didn't make it in this one. I also really liked the setup for this video, you sitting behind a desk/table really made it feel like you were a teacher and all of us your students :)

[@koharumi1]

2:10 That is a lot of pencils...

[@mariorlandoduran]

🎯 Key points for quick navigation: 00:03 *Nile crucial history* 01:06 *Pursuit Nile's source* 02:16 *Mountains as myth* 05:22 *Malaria's major obstacle* 08:49 *Mt. Kenya discovered* 10:39 *Livingston's dangerous journey* 12:04 *Berlin's colonial scramble* 14:13 *Livingstone's abolition mission* 15:37 *Congo free state* 17:11 *Stanley's mountain discovery* 19:53 *Ice records dwindling* 25:24 *Climate change evidence* Made with HARPA AI

[@octopusfly]

12:44 .... Burton was a "biologist"? That's a bit slight. He deserves more credit in the revelation of the Nile's source than that. What about the Congo-Nile continental divide? ...or the Blue Nile supplying 86% of water supply to Egypt? Slavery, imperialism and climate change are the true sources of the Nile? Important issues but, tangential to the geographical matter, in my opinion. Thanks for sharing your time and energy. ~an American in Korea 🇰🇷

[@t-rey1312]

Ptolemy the Atlas Pro of his time. Cracks me up every time!!

[@bennyp7]

The loss of glacial mass on the mountains of Africa is tied to decreased precipitation not an increase in temperature. It’s possible the decrease in precipitation is tied to anthropogenically induced climate change or it’s variability in multi-decadal oscillations that drive changes in the monsoon. I am an atmospheric scientist and can forward you some journal articles on the topic.

[@yesid17]

great video! i really appreciate that you have come to actively recognize and criticize colonization-if i recall correctly in one of you previous videos you literally said that the US took its current form once all the land had been "claimed by someone," completely erasing the countless indigenous nations and the wars and genocide employed to overtake the land-I'm glad that in this video you made it clear that the "golden age of exploration in africa" was colonization and exploitation as much as it was exploration. My one criticism for this video is with your phrasing "scientific records"-science can be described as a process by which hypotheses are tested to determine information. Indigenous people may not have been keeping paper records, or practicing cartography on paper, but that doesn't mean indigenous people did not practice science or have cartographic information, just that their data and record-keeping methods were not known or were incompatible with European methods of cartography and record-keeping, forcing them to collect their data themselves. in any case, great visuals, great script, and great message overall-keep up the good work!

[@aron_4217]

One of the best channels on youtube right now

[@ariel340]

The Romans also explored Africa searching for the Nile's source. They wanted to know the reason behind the annual floodings. Emperor Nero sent an expedition, which came back to Rome years later with a great tale...

[@RosyMiranto]

Funny that we got a video by Real Life Lore on the longest river about a week ago and now we got this one :D

[@aaronmarks9366]

Was just thinking this

[@saladinbob]

Right I need to correct you on a mistake you have in this video. The Congo was never under Belgium control, it was the exclusive "property" of Leopold, and it was in fact the Belgium government that put an end to his cruelty.

[@sambuydens6418]

It was for a short period after Leopold’s deaths.

[@The_Milkman_Delivers]

Your correction is incorrect, and even if it wasn't it wouldn't absolve the Belgians in any way

[@quidam_surprise]

@@The_Milkman_Delivers At no point did they mention the role of Belgian people though.

[@justinsculley1536]

"Ptolemy [...] was kinda like the Atlas Pro of his time" is a very clever way of claiming Atlas Pro is the modern Ptolemy lmao

[@chaiwarrior11]

Have enjoyed your content for quite a while, but you have stepped it up a notch. The production value and connections made are a joy to watch. Thanks for that! May beg you to pop in on my classes in Indonesia, I teach English in primary, but secondary levels need your passion! Sehat selalu.

[@3ekaust]

I just love you. I love the quality of the videos, i love your voice and entonation, i love the topics, i just love this channel so much. Really, thank you for putting thios much effort, i really enjoy your videos and look forward for them being posted. Also i like that you appear more on your videos, it gives them more of a personal touch, it's like seeing a painting tutorial vs a Bob Ross painting tutorial. Been following the channel for a while and it is yet to disappoint me. Great work, just needed to say that.

[@MortyMortyMorty]

You should get some sound absorbing foams in your room. It would greatly increase the audio quality! But great video as always!

[@joshuamitas9160]

Is no one going to mention that he had some with a Scottish accent read out Livingstone's diary? That's some dedication

[@herculean46]

This video was so touching in the end when you talked about and showed visuals of loosing glaciers in Africa. We always associate Africa with Sahara desert and then grassland and rain forests but never with ice capped mountains and glaciers. Though we were introduced to them in the first half of video but later hit hard when you talked about climate impacts. It kinda same feeling which we got seeing the penguin video. Something triggered deep in me (it’s way way better than climate change sumit speeches) 👏👏👏

[@jchavins]

This is exactly why the climate change crap should have been left out of this video. Glaciers on mountains in Africa are a small snapshot in time when looking at global climate...

[@HosenMatzDeluXe]

Im very glad i came across your channel. You present your content in a very interesting and engaging manner, it is clear to see, you care about the stuff you're talkin about. And the sources check out. Big thumps up. But I would suggest u contact a voice coach.

[@Spectacurl]

This is a top class video. Very sad with the problems of audio, but I think that this is one of your best videos. Amazing!

[@myselfyuvi]

Would love to see these kind of stories on Himalayan mountains and rivers! ❤️

[@adamvanek5868]

Great video! Btw. I would never judge the explorers or European hunger for the riches of Africa according to the modern standards - but I totally agree that Leopold II. was truly notorious supervillain - so evil that even the most greedy colonizers and rulers of his time called him evil when it came out what was actually happening in Congo. I was kind of shocked when I read about him.

[@HouseOfKung]

C, this is, by far, the best video you’ve made all pandemic (even if you lost your voice part way through). It brings a critical, yet gentle, voice to the overwhelmingly western narrative of Africa in the last century, full of your signature factoids that make your maturing channel so interesting and watchable, culminating in a convoluted, sensical conclusion that kinda T-bones my train of thought. So yeah. Bump up the intensity of your message, even if you’re still formulating it half the time, and keep these kinds of videos coming.

[@elli6220]

Completely agree. His channel was always good but this year's videos have been impressive.

[@8bitsub412]

That’s a lot of colouring pencils. Oh and great video btw!

[@elilane2268]

This was amazing I remember when you were a small channel and now you're almost at 1 mil!

[@jamssandwich]

"Man I love me some Atlas Pro, I just learn cool geography facts and don't have to worry about world issues that give me anxiety" 'the earth's climate is changing' "Aw sheeeee-"

[@richardfurness7556]

If there were more people like you who took an interest in geography maybe we'd have done more to mitigate the effects of climate change and we wouldn't have to worry about it quite so much.

[@-nyx-8850]

5:10 As a Brazilian, I have the obligation of recognizing that one in particular (considering all the campaigns regarding the prevention of dengue fever, it would be dumb not to). It's Aedes aegypti.

[@SD-tj5dh]

A fantastic video. What happens to the rivers when the mountains lose their snow? Are clouds still forming at the summit? Is it still raining up there?

[@pocarski]

Not much would happen to the rivers, actually. The absolute worst case scenario is that some relatively small rivers that go into lake Victoria would dry out, which would barely affect the Nile (especially since most of its water comes from Ethiopia anyways)

[@thebluntsimon38]

It has been proven lake Victoria has dried out several times

[@uwotm8776]

I've seen so many videos about the source of the Nile I almost didn't watch it. But I love your videos so I did. And I didn't regret it. You had so much more interesting information about it than anything I've seen about it before. I like the longer videos. Hell I'd watch full documentaries if you made them. Thanks for making great videos. One of my favourite KZbin channels by far!

[@HansLemurson]

Great timing on this video. I got this recommended after watching the *whatifalthist* video about _"What if the Scramble for Africa Never Happened?"_

[@AMR_k400]

I watched it too

[@Stoffies123]

No joke, I had a history test about the Berlin Conference and the Ashanti people today!

[@MrCarrotbadger]

First: Yes, I could see more of these kinds of videos! Second: Does the disappearing of the glaciers gonna have a large effect in the Nile or other rivers like the Kongo? Or is there enough rain to sustain them? Maybe some prediction reports.

[@bobsmith8124]

Well, we have over 100 years of climate data, we know everything... 🤡

[@catsdogswoof3968]

Probably enough other mountains and rain to support

[@catsdogswoof3968]

I thought I heard the Nile survived before the ice age

[@MrCarrotbadger]

I hope so, sounds likely

[@RedChaosScrungle]

When talking about icy mountains in Africa, I'm surprised you never brought up the very ones who you share a name with, the Atlas mountains.

[@juanser.b97]

Amazing video! Loved the new format.

[@alangarcia5552]

Thanks for the educational video. Impressive visuals and I like the attention to detail by getting the WonderWhy guy to read Livingstone's letter with Scottish accent. Little details matter the most. Keep up the excellent work.

[@davidravensbergen3307]

Great video, but is it perhaps possible to make a video on how you get all these beautiful maps in your videos. Google provides decent maps, but the ones you produce are so much more detailed!

[@dbear6983]

I'm fairly certain the photo of Frederick Russell Burnham is actually of Robert Baden-Powell. The video is insightful and interesting nonetheless! 👍

[@emil_berth]

Great vid. One point though: you chose a picture of Robert Baden-Powell (who was British and founded the boy scouts) instead of Frederick Russell Burnham (an American) ;)

[@igavinwood]

Great vid demonstrating the impact of global warming. I grew up in New Zealand and the same thing is happening to the glaciers there. Another photograhic source on the impacts of pollution has been the photos taken during the Covid pandemic, where clear blue skies from around the world where reported for the first time in some peoples living memory. The reason for the clear skies is mostly attributed to no car and truck movement. Unfortunately all those clear skies have gone again as we turned the engines back on.

[@crjm2001]

I was super impressed by all the areas of biology you covered in "why there are no penguins in the arctic" but with the history that you covered about the subject in this you really have outdone yourself

[@Slombass]

This video was awesome, thanks for the great content! Question though: When the glaciers on the Rwenzori mountains all melt, what will happen to the Nile during the dry season? Is it just going to dry up, or are the lakes that the mountains feed now going to have enough water to sustain the river and themselves until it rains again?

[@rediettadesse2828]

Im ethiopian .. it rains 3 months out of 12 months .. but water continuously flows .. id exactly know how tho ... 🤔

[@bobsmith8124]

We have over 100 years of climate data, we know it all 🤡.... 😂

[@libelldrian173]

It always amazed me to hear that European and American explorers reached far and remote places such as the deep mountainous regions of East Africa hundreds of years ago! 😱😳

[@libelldrian173]

I would have liked this video to include more information on the actual other sources of the Nile river, e.g. the Ethiopian highlands like you said.

[@morganmcallister2001]

"Most of them weren't motivated by furthering the scope of human knowledge, but rather were being paid to lay the groundwork for centuries of exploitation and oppression." 1884 isn't yet two centuries old even today. European colonialism in Africa post-1884 didn't even last one century. This is a pretty extraordinary claim which is pretty casually tossed out there. Atlas Pro usually doesn't make mistakes of this caliber.

[@Johangv]

12:55 I could swear that was a segue into an ad! Well done!

[@e_dharmalog]

For anyone wondering why you can't just sail up the Nile or hike along its banks to find out where it goes, explorers from the ancient Egyptians to the Romans to the Victorians were prevented by the Sudd. The Sudd is a huge swamp in South Sudan that is hundreds of square miles and extremely difficult to sail or map because it is composed of huge floating islands made of naturally tangled weeds. Even today with modern technology it is said to be quite difficult to sail. The snakes, crocodiles, leeches, and insects make it impossible for non-indigenous people to hike. So anyone wanting to follow the Nile south of Sudan needs to go hundreds of miles out of their way to find where the Sudd ends and the Nile continues on its way to Lake Victoria. The late Victorians skipped it altogether by hiking into the interior from the east coast of Africa, well south of the Sudd.

[@ShihammeDarc]

Ptolemy may have been the Atlas Pro of his time but Caelan is the Atlas Pro of our times!

[@Blalack77]

Damn.. I've always been a geography buff but for some damn reason, at the age of 35, I just realized Africa is almost completely detached from all other continents/land masses - it's only connected through Egypt/the Levant/the Sinai Peninsula.. I guess it's so big, that never even occurred to me.. Wait.. And even that one single connection - that's where the Suez Canal is, isn't it? So Africa is _completely_ detached? Well, any day where you learn/realize something is definitely not a waste of a day. Africa and Patagonia are two places I definitely want to visit someday.

[@namitajimmy6737]

Umm no, the suez canal is man made, it's not detached

[@MxIraAram]

i definitly want more of this topic and videos overall. i really love your vids!

[@fahimontu7065]

This is a must watch video for the ppl who doesn't believe in climate change..amazing work gathering those rare picture bro!