What Happens if Sea Levels Drop by 1000 Metres?

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[@jediknight5600]

Can you imagine how many wars this would start?

[@NanobanaKinako]

Mongol Empire can finally take over Japan

[@Donjuanantoine]

All of them.

[@JTA1961]

I sea what you mean

[@jediknight5600]

@@JTA1961 I sea what you did there.....

[@Myne1001]

Any significant change in sea levels would caused plenty of issues worldwide. Basically the entire backstory to Evangelion.

[@jhulvincentcalabia4784]

"Taiwan is now connected to China" Taiwan: Oh hell naw!

[@rosieroti4063]

What will China do now with the strait of Malacca completely closed? Import oil from Russia? What will Russia do with literally 0 coastline connecting the Atlantic? Gulf countries will either succumb to Saudi Arabia or Iran or destroy each other. Another question is since all land is now connected, can we call this a supercontinent? If yes, then given that the land massss are already connected under the ocean, does a supercontinent already exist?

[@jaquigreenlees]

The Chinese Government before the Communist Government took Taiwan over as the Chinese Government in Exile, so yup, they would be freaking at a land connection forming.

[@izora_chan]

💀 They have truly rejoined the motherland, literally.Plus, being Singaporean, we would suddenly become landlocked and our ports will become useless and our economy will fall severely lol “0v0

[@kiravatheargonian]

*LAKE JAPAN, GULF OF SOUTH CHINA*

[@garygrant91]

Taiwan is now connected to West Taiwan.

[@raynnyax]

mount Everest is now 9878 meters

[@Heymrk]

And Mauna Kea would still be taller.

[@thenorseguy2495]

Highest mountain and deepest sea level would be about the same

[@HKN48]

@@thenorseguy2495 yes but Everest would technically grow from 8878 meters to 9878 meters above sea level

[@ahmadjauhar4562]

Lets plant a pole 122m high to make it 10km below sea level

[@jdotoz]

@@Heymrk Mt. Lam Lam is still the champ

[@agermandown]

"However Australia has bigger problems, it is connected to Indonesia" DAMN

[@stefanoraz27]

As an Indonesian, I can confirm.

[@JUVI9596]

Poor Indonesia

[@Monticello_Bonifacio]

Australia merged to Indonesia and PNG. Australian: 😩😩😭😭🙏🏻🙏🏻 Indonesian (Esp. West Papuan) and PNG: 🤑🤑🥳🥳😈😈

[@sukahatiakula3672]

Indon third world country 🤢🤢

[@sudokuacrobatics]

Hell nah 💀

[@HollywoodF1]

It’s funny thinking of Denmark and Netherlands- two countries so associated with the sea- to be landlocked.

[@pyrex2177]

Netherlands would already be landlocked if sea levels would only decrease by 50-100m and the baltic sea would already be a lake by then. Denmark/Sweden would only have a very small strip of ocean access near Skagerrak, not even reaching to the Gothenburg area.

[@GOAT_GOATERSON]

Technically not because we still have some Carribbean islands

[@hellefur7861]

What would Denmark do with All those big bridges? Put Them in Storage, until the sealevell increase again 😂😂😂😂

[@fajaradi1223]

Maritime vikings = scary Landlocked vikings = funny

[@JatirGamerOnly]

you forgot Belgium & Germany

[@HolloVVpoint]

People acting like a thousand meters isn’t a significant drop. Bro there’s mountains which are a thousand meters 😂

[@2ification]

1000 meter sea level rise is over for me. I’m only 300 meters😶

[@Tartarus4567]

Same.... That means the earth will be full of mountains 😅

[@parkesyreviewsstuff7587]

You can literally drive from Sydney to New York if you felt like it for some reason

[@EarlJohn61]

You'd need to fid a road first.

[@Federal_Bureau_of_Investigatio]

australia and new guinea arent connected to southeast asia tho, unless they built a long ass bridge

[@glenbe4026]

i believe they are referring to car ferries.

[@nancydrew1102]

We’d be the boat ppl lol . Wonder how long that drive would take ?? ​@@Federal_Bureau_of_Investigatio

[@patriziaimpicciche6450]

you can even drive till anchorage,in alaska

[@createdforthemoment6740]

Team Aquas been real quiet since Magma expanded the land....

[@OwlsandWisteria673]

When Groudon discovers steroids

[@omkr0122]

Admiral Akainu wins. Aqua Sama cries

[@birdgod5584]

In this map, the lake in between the borders between Canada and Greenland would become the deepest and largest lake on Earth. It would get up to 7000 ft deep. Also, many shores would now be way difference, since instead of you being able to walk around the shore and it only gradually getting deep, it would instantly drop thousands of feet

[@aidankeys8534]

Wouldn't that also result in massive cliffs for where the land reaches the sea? Up to 1000m is quite the drop.

[@birdgod5584]

@@aidankeys8534 Most likely, yep

[@mike954]

It looks like he just dropped the water level just past the continental slope. Sure, it'd give us more land, but it'd wreck havoc on the environment and ocean currents. Not to mention oceanic trade would be severely impacted. And where'd all that water go?! Did it evaporate? If so then that would drop lake water levels as well. If it got locked up in ice all that land mass in Canada and Russia would be covered in glaciers and would add to the water level of the upper Northern Hemisphere lakes like the Great Lakes, the Hudson Bay, and Caspian Sea (depending on the southern extent of the ice sheet). That gradual deepening of the water you talked about is also where a lot of marine organisms live. And the continental slope is where a lot of sedimentation occurs and upwelling of nutrients in the winter months happen, 1000m (~3281ft) below sea level.

[@dtvjho]

Yes, the new sea level, being below the edges of the continental shelves worldwide, means the end of flat beaches in most areas, the level is part way down the cliffs that already exist, but the lower 80% of the cliffs would remain submerged. An effect on sea trade would be the elimination of large flats and shallows, and the need for constant dredging. Large ships could berth directly at the cliffs with new terminals. But most saltwater marshes would disappear.

[@andregroo]

@@mike954 for the matter of the map the water magically disappeared, I assume

[@chefnyc]

Baltic Sea disappeared. So Russia has access to the oceans only from the underdeveloped eastern coast. I am guessing Black sea also becomes a lake which is another access point. So Suez Canal unless somebody digs a longer one. I wonder if Panama also became too fat to make a canal prohibitively expensive. People don’t need a boat to escape from Cuba to Florida. Similarly Europe will be more accessible for African immigrants. Greece and Turkey become really close neighbors 😬

[@ArmoredProtagonist999]

China and Taiwan become one again 💀

[@shannonkohl68]

I was going to say that they could dredge the Panama canal and maybe the Suez, but then I realized that your locks would have to raise the ships an additional 1000 m which would seem to make both canals unusable for that reason alone.

[@तेजसरजनीशखरे]

And Hitler and Nepolian must have invaded UK

[@tricksor6589]

You would have to create another canal in djibouti or yemen to get to the Indian Ocean@@shannonkohl68

[@tricksor6589]

This is detrimental for China. No more Yangtze, Pearl or Yellow rivers. and if they do still exist they start in foreign countries

[@adamh2900]

I think if you can keep a straight face while saying "Doggerland" you have more self-discipline than I do

[@chrisbartolini1508]

Naughty naughty

[@afrophoenix3111]

Gotta do SOMETHING with all that new land... Why not?

[@NotAfraidToQuestionThings]

A landbridge between UK and the Netherlands? I don't think that name would be unfit.

[@markvoelker6620]

I prefer Catterland.

[@EnglishLad]

@@markvoelker6620 Bless your innocent soul. You have much to learn, warlock. In due time, in due time...

[@biggusd8813]

Most of this new land would end up as scorching dry desert or freezing cold wastelands. Also the regions furthest from the sea would have even greater seasonal variations than they already have.

[@TXnine7nine]

The Med in this video has become an inland sea/lake and would eventually evaporate. The Sahara would move north and most of southern europe would become desert. This was modeled previously when those insane plans from the early 20th century came up that suggested that they close the Suez canal and dam the Med at Gibraltar.

[@jshsvsjejed6960]

Over time the land that was under the sea would develop plants… forests or what ever climate the land would be…. In its location

[@biggusd8813]

@@jshsvsjejed6960 Yes. But overall I reckon most land would be useless. Think of a Sahara connecting with both Europe (the Meditarrenean sea now turning into a slowly evaporating lake), the Red Sea (also a now a slowly evaporating lake) and the whole desert region jutting into Iran. The likes of the Maldives and the Azores gaining a bit of land would be nothing compared to the absolute tragedy for the rest of the world.

[@MrKanilammit]

I have seen that sea levels were only around 120m lower during the last ice age and that resulted in around 1/3 the landmass being glacier. We are looking at around 8x lower sea level here, so that much more water going into glaciers. Would we see the supposedly former "green Sahara" become icy?

[@geofflepper3207]

A few things: 1 - Some parts of seas would become cut off from the oceans and with no outlets which means that eventually they might become very salty and have higher concentrations of contaminants. 2 - This would cause huge problems for marine life used to today's geography as migratory species would in some cases be cut off by land barriers and obviously a lot of shorelines would move significant distances. 3 - For this to occur the water has to go somewhere and that presumably would be into massive ice sheets covering much of North America, Europe and Asia. Those incredibly heavy ice sheets tend to push down the middle of continents while in places the coastlines just outside the ice sheets might rise the same way that when you sit on a mattress the part you sit on goes down while the mattress around you actually rises up. Apparently in North America the middle of the continent is still slowly rising recovering from being pushed down in the last ice age while some areas around the coasts such as Washington DC which rose during the last ice age are still today sinking in recovery - that's a problem in an era when due to climate change sea levels are rising and heavier storms upriver could mean higher storm surges in the river flowing through Washington. 4 - Such a change in ocean levels would almost certainly play havoc with ocean currents such as the gulf stream which currently keeps Europe far warmer than its latitude would imply ..... though that may not matter much as the much lower sea levels indicates that Europe would already be covered by an ice sheet as the most likely place for all that sea water to go is into ice sheets. 5 - If sea levels are 1,000 metres lower in a sense that means that every place on land is effectively 1,000 metres higher altitude above sea level. If that means that atmospheric pressure becomes lower at every place on land on Earth does that mean that people start finding themselves more out of breath where they live and does that mean that it becomes impossible for anyone to climb to the top of Mount Everest or K2 and survive? Could even a modern mountain climber with full modern equipment have climbed those mountains during the last ice age when sea levels were much lower? 6 - Surely this will play havoc with weather patterns and river flows. 7 - If this magically happened overnight it would really mess up business for ports, costal tourist resorts, fishing communities, etc that would find themselves far from water with all their water related infrastructure far up above sea levels. A lot of ships would suddenly be stranded, aground far from the sea. In terms of sudden changes like that the 1968 Canadian film The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes with canoeist Bill Mason is amusing, somewhat informative and available online.

[@gaureearolkar1522]

name of that movie?

[@gaureearolkar1522]

u forgot to mention effects on weather pattern

[@pahtar7189]

3 - North America is still rebounding from the last ice age, so presumably its subsidence would take just as long. 4 - The changes would be catastrophic. 5 - The ice sheets would be thousands of meters deep, displacing the air. This means the air pressure at current sea level would be about the same. At the new sea level it would be higher than it is currently. 6 - Less water evaporating in the tropics would mean continental interiors would be drier than they are now with more extreme annual temperature extremes.

[@zachcarter3186]

Would be so cool to take a drive from Canada to Europe. The only big problem would be the lack of bays and capes for fishing

[@geofflepper3207]

I'm wondering what driving through the mountains of Greenland would be like, especially as the low sea levels imply an ice age with a huge ice sheet across North America and a much bigger ice sheet in Greenland as compared to the ice sheet there today.

[@GS-pf8kf]

7:13 Unintentionally, you've solved the major issue between Greece and Turkey regarding how much of Aegean sea belongs to each country. Thank you so much!

[@JackMellor498]

“The Falklands has connected to Argentina.” The British: 👀…🤨…😡

[@wildsurfer12]

Don’t worry we’d just reclaim the Republic of Ireland instead as they would be obscuring our access to the Atlantic Ocean.

[@wildsurfer12]

Don’t worry we’d just re-annex the Republic of Ireland instead, as they would be blocking our access to the Atlantic from the west.

[@MarceloRadomski]

Indeed they are already inside Argentinian platform, they always belonged to us.

[@blackdog2994]

If sea levels drop 1000m you can have them. World War 3 will have broken out in a global land grab, we'll be too busy at home.

[@JustarLad]

ThOsE aRe OuR IsLaNdS

[@locke6531]

zealandia would be so much bigger than you've shown so would be the most unrecognisable for sure

[@cadentrevino5746]

Yeah but you would have to drop sea levels like 3km

[@zhishihuangdi98]

Zealand is a much larger landmass, sea-level need to drop few more 100 metres to fully expose it's true size

[@dtvjho]

One of the problems with simulations is with interior seas currently connected to world sea level. Programs frequently fail to take into account the depth of the straits that tie them to the ocean. Once sea level falls below the bottom of the strait, that connection dries up, and the interior sea levels off (and becomes a fresh water lake). For the Black Sea to be cut off, world sea level needs to drop 110m. The Strait of Gibraltar is 950m deep, so at 1000m the Mediterranean would be cut off.

[@MrKanilammit]

Would it become fresh water lake? Where would the salt water left in the new lake go? Also, wouldn't salinity levels, in those lakes and the oceans, increase?

[@dtvjho]

@@MrKanilammit Runoff from heavy rains would cause water to exit via the cutoff strait, like a river, taking salt with it.

[@addicted2baseballrgd21]

4:08 in order for the sea level to drop, we would be in another ice age. So Russia wouldn't be able to drill for oil, because all that area would be covered with ICE.

[@GabeTune]

That’s true

[@henkvermeer8652]

Drill DEEPER!

[@jamemule5326]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@samuelschonenberger]

Team Magma be like

[@mbathroom1]

as a canadian, this is quite fascinating

[@dsxa918]

As a Canadian, I enjoy looking for New Zealand on maps (there are a few maps that forget to include it)

[@EmaMalik]

Right! And it looks like kids won’t have to struggle to colour in Nunavut anymore 😂

[@MrKanilammit]

Sea levels were supposedly only 120m lower during last ice age when Canada was pretty much under a glacier. Now we are talking around 7-8x lower sea levels and that much more water going to glacial formation?

[@johnearle1]

@@MrKanilammit I found a layer of seashells in a gravel pit some 300 feet above sea level. There’s been a lot of change over time.

[@Ashley4029]

Don't get any ideas😆

[@mysteriousDSF]

The most fascinating thing is that these super unknown, super southern islands like the Sandwich or whatever islands, would now become inhabitable and there would probably be a significant amount of settlements with lucrative mining and fishing opportunities. It would be really cool to have an Antarctic subpolar region like we do in the north - not as cold as the full-blown polar but still pretty cold, yet inhabitable.

[@pahtar7189]

For sea level to drop 1,000 meters, we'd need to have an ice age much more extreme than the last few. This means those islands would all be iced over. Alas.

[@ta_w_si_f]

Finally someone with Sea level decrease. I'm sick watching those sea level increases vids . Really appreciate ❤️🇧🇩

[@giorgospapoutsakis5271]

What's so repulsive about if sea levels rised but if they decreased is okay? Are you overreacting?

[@lordtraxroy]

Thats whats happen if there is an another ice age but in a massive way with if sea level will drop

[@dr.finnegan3949]

2:39 Taiwan: “ohh shit…”

[@galreserve2322]

Japan: -Welcome to Japan empire Korea: Ah sh it here we go again!

[@fajaradi1223]

China : invade! Japan : invade! N Korea : Don't invade me! Take their land instead! S Korea : No! Take their land! Not mine!

[@Evan-Gomes]

As a Canadian, I never realized how deep the Great Lakes are and how shallow is Hudson’s bay! Fascinating stuff

[@poodlescone9700]

The missing water would be ice and that means the poles have larger ice caps that would connect more continents.

[@ClarkeDesign]

Would have been nice to overlay the current country sizes (borders) over the projected sizes.

[@geeboom]

As a non native English speaker I find it fascinating to observe changes that are taking place in the language. One such change is the conjugation of irregular verbs. I notice that the past perfect tense becomes like the past tense. Like when as in this video the narrator consistently say "has became". As far as I can tell there are few verbs for which that is not the case. The verb "to be". I never once heard anyone say "has was". I distinctly hear the narrator still consider "to grow" to be irregular. He still uses the old "has grown" and not "has grew". Interesting.

[@DarrenAJordan]

As a native English speaker "has became" and "has grew" sound strange to me. I would always use "has become" and "has grown".

[@gosnooky]

The Andaman and Nicobar islands are owned by India, but this map shows them now as part of Myanmar. I think the most devastating part of this map is all those famous beaches of Thailand are mostly gone. Argentina would have a much stronger claim to the Malvinas.

[@islandsunset]

"owned" no. You should instead write "part of" or "administered"

[@gosnooky]

@@islandsunset Semantics.

[@Federal_Bureau_of_Investigatio]

how would the sentinelese react

[@tarekfatahfanclub9043]

A little bit correction is needed. Andaman Nikobar Islands come under India even though they are next to Burma.

[@fajaradi1223]

India, Indonesia and Myanmar gonna fight for it.

[@ZuPM]

Mauritius here, thanks for highlighting us!

[@Appalachian-Mapping]

dawg you from mauritius? never actually met anybody from any of the little island nations wow

[@TheClintb17]

Another problem could be the existing ports would be too shallow or useless, new ones to be built. 👍🇦🇺

[@pahtar7189]

All current ports would be 3,000 feet above sea level, so yeah... all new ports.

[@noncat3218]

Peru-Chile coast would be a huge cliff. Nazca rift subduction zone

[@FreeFreePLSTINE]

“I personally think new zealand changed the most” Denmark: Bruh

[@subman721]

5:48 “Mr. Ambassador you nearly 100 naval vessels operating in the North Atlantic right now. Your aircraft has dropped enough sonar buoys, so that a man could walk from Greenland, to Iceland, to Scotland, without getting his feet wet. Now! Shall we dispense with the bull!”

[@pahtar7189]

"I'm a politician, which means when I'm not kissing babies I'm stealing their lollipops. But it also means I keep my options open..."

[@ChRW123]

I think the reason why Africa barely changes is not that it is not affected, it due to lack of accessible data on this topic.

[@Bloodinthebath1000]

Netherlands happy sounds

[@kharilane1340]

This is kind of how Earth looked during the height of the Ice Age.

[@NanobanaKinako]

Having Indonesia connected to the Philippines is like dream come true for me. I can finally walk there also the British would be triggered knowing Falkland Islands are now connected to Argentina which in case nobody knows, the 2 countries are fighting for it. With that mind, Argentina has more right to own the once an island now it becomes a peninsula.

[@Khookies-lp2lu]

I don't think Argentina has any more right than before simply because it's connected now. Also I find it funny how the Riau Islands has truly bifurcated Malaysia. Instead of it being a sea border, there's actual hard land now

[@andregroo]

@@Khookies-lp2lu whileree I agree with your point, it's not so much about who has more right as it is about who can occupy it first

[@mcbchannel7173]

hell no u wanna walk thousands of kms across the phillippines and indonesia on foot

[@jdotoz]

What do the Falklanders think?

[@robertfoulkes1832]

​@@Khookies-lp2luAnd Brunei is not only landlocked but entirely enclaved by Malaysia!

[@deathtoraiden2080]

>Sea drops 1000 Meters >Portugal >"BUT IF YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES..."

[@ommsterlitz1805]

5:30 Kerguelen is not tiny by any means, it's as big other islands like Cyprus, Corsica and the Island of Crete

[@MadeleineTakam]

To be honest, what is incredible is how little the world changes with a 1000 metre sea level drop. Really shows just how deep the oceans are and how much effect they have on the planet.

[@binkwillans5138]

It also shows how BIG the oceans are: 70% of the Earth's surface x 1000m. Where did it all go???

[@dennisenright9347]

You didn't show the massive ice sheet covering a big part of the northern hemisphere. The one that covered half of North America 20000 years ago contained enough water to lower sea level by more than 120 metres. A 1000 metre drop would in sea level would create enough ice to glaciate most of the world's land

[@petadewar4720]

The video is only about if ocean levels were lower than they are now, he doesn't need to provide a reason. It's purely speculation on one criterion.

[@prosfilaes]

We didn't freeze the water, we took it to terraform Mars.

[@Supermateo97]

*Team Magma doesn’t get stopped by a 10 year-old child:*

[@MikeFugily-hj3ok]

I've lived near the ocean my entire life and the water level has never changed. The beach is still there and the water has not eroded the small sea wall that's there.

[@HarryWHill-GA]

Interesting video. What happened to the roughly 260 million km^3 of water? It had to go somewhere and would likely sit on top of all that new land in Russia, Norway, and Canada.

[@siyacer]

i drank it all

[@1Albedo]

@@siyacer well, you would still have to pee it all out though, so it still has to go somewhere...

[@MartinInBC]

Ice.

[@d9zirable]

​@@1Albedospace piss

[@pahtar7189]

This scenario could only happen from an extreme ice age, so the water would be bound up in enormous ice sheets covering both poles.

[@ParaballAyCaramba]

6:53 but Greenland is already connected with hans island irl

[@jameshorn270]

The drop in sea level during the last Ice Age was about 300 feet, a little less than 100 meters. The 1000 meter drop is a pointless exercise.

[@saidiluvubutilied]

Please do 2,000meters next 😊

[@SimonsAstronomy]

Lets just drink all the water so we can have this

[@chitticom]

😐

[@j0shmyg0sh90]

I truly don't see any bright sides to having more land, let alone Australia

[@Construimus_Batuimus]

4:28 There is no such place as "British Indian Island Terrotory." It is "British Indian *Ocean* Territory."

[@pahtar7189]

In order for sea level to drop by 1,000 meters, there would have to be a truly freakish ice age. This would mean that all that new land of Russia, Norway, Britain, Iceland, Greenland, Canada, and Alaska would be under ice sheets. The Antarctic ice shelves would extend to Chile and Argentina as well. The Gulf Stream would be forced southward by the expansion of Canada's Maritime Provinces, meaning northwest Europe would be even colder. The Panama Canal would be at the spine of a mountain range, making its continued operation entirely unrealistic. The surviving humans would have a very different global economy.

[@Justmekpc]

Why imagine the oceans lowering as we’re losing arctic ice as the planet warms Sea rise is all we will see in our lifetime

[@edmartin875]

According to Al Gore....Florida should have disappeared beneath the Ocean by now. He must be right since he got the Nobel Prize for informing the world of Global Warming. Then the True Believers got caught red handed changing the raw data to Global Warming, so it went away, and Climate Change took its place. Wisely the True Believers picked a DYNAMIC system that has been in constant change for over 4 billion years so that everyone with 2 brain cells to rub together now believes in Climate Change. Then the True Believers became Flat Earthers.

[@ruthcollins2841]

Why 1000 metres, why not just 100?

[@binkwillans5138]

No clicks for 100.

[@kevinjohns3872]

Imagine paying a premium for a beachfront house and then finding out the coast is 200 miles away!

[@peteruk65]

Where the h*ll is 1000m globally of water going to go? This is as stupid as an 80m level rise!

[@shadhinov]

Brittain: gets connected to france directly by land. Angevin kings of England: Rolls in their graves like beyblades

[@alexv9869]

Ukraine is perfectly decreasing without changing the sea level))))))

[@GoldenLion137]

Good video thanks - can you also include Hawaii the next time you make one of these. Would like to see if all the islands would one day?

[@garethmorton5620]

As a New Zealander, NZ isn't actually as unrecognisable as you'd think. Geographically this actually makes it similar to what the islands supposedly would've looked like during the last glacial maxima, according to our school system anyway.

[@graceneilitz7661]

Probably, but as the first humans got to New Zealand around 1200-1400 A.D (less than a thousand years ago) there weren’t any humans to see it.

[@KeithClipperton]

When you lay it all out on a flat map, yes Russia and Canada look comparatively enormous. Are any of these figures you’re stating corrected for the earth being a globe?

[@divijdomah6285]

As a Mauritian, this is a W in my book

[@vinnyvidz]

North sentinel island Connected to Myanmar, that’s fun

[@fajaradi1223]

Without strait of malacca, Singapore will be Singapoor.

[@xtbum3339]

Dropping sea levels are all good and fun. But rising sea levels are more realistic.

[@jaymez3461]

The only way the sea level would drop that much is if the water were removed from the planet and taken into space.

[@koreshsonkar3999]

Like your Channel man. Have always been a man who loves Geography, just never knew what to do further in it.

[@TheGermanReichtangle]

Italy is looking.... uhhh well.... looking like 1962 in a parallel universe...

[@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu]

It's either "became" or "has become", but NEVER "has became".

[@jakelover1731]

Thank you. This was driving me batty.

[@masaomorinaga6412]

Chile is that kid who can't get fat no matter how much he eats

[@SpaceForce-oj1eo]

Temperature will be dropped if Desert in Africa, Iran , China , Australia turn Greener massively or farming industry and then sea level will drop also 1000 meters, it's like bringing back ice age

[@LVPUSTrismegistus]

This is basicaly what the world was 12.000 years ago. It also remains me a little bit to the Warhammer fantasy world map.

[@gearreallydoesntmatter]

It’s not in NK. When I went to high school in the US, it was also in the middle with Asia cut in half.

[@johnbryce8267]

Interesting concept! I've always wondered what it would look like if all of the ice on the polar caps melted and the oceans were raised,.. would we have a WaterWorld like the movie? I don't think there is that much, but it would certainly change. Maybe a video of Sea Levels raised by 1000 meters? or even just 1000 feet?

[@victorleoncio1079]

2:38 - No, neither North or South Korea would become landlocked countries; both of them still have the coastline facing the Sea (now a... Gulf?) of Japan.

[@HypnoticChronic1]

Incorrect on all fronts, to start off with the Sea of Japan would still be considered a sea, as by definition a sea is a large body of salty water and in some niche definitions also mimics weather phenomenon found on the open ocean, much like how the Caspian is a sea despite having no direct access to any ocean. Additionally, a Gulf is by definition a large inlet from the ocean into the landmass i.e. the Gulf of Mexico, something which was not represented in the image presented, as both the southern access point (Korea Strait) and the northern access points (the Strait of Tartary, La Pérouse Strait/Sōya Strait, Tsugaru Strait) are all closed off by new land. Lastly, both Korea's would be considered landlocked, as by the definition of landlocked is no direct ocean access aka no ocean coastline, much like how Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan are deemed as landlocked, despite sitting right on the coast of the Caspian.

[@Blanc777]

Australia would only need a 100m sea level drop to join PNG and for Tasmania to join the main land.

[@Grizzlox]

Now imagine this is what the world looked like 6000 years ago

[@freakishuproar1168]

That North Korean monument map is fascinating. I've often daydreamed about an alternative history setting where none of the nations we're familiar with came about, and instead completely unique countries arose in their place. I imagined this world as being geopolitically dominated by the South-East Asian/Australian/Micronesian part of the world (or whatever they'd call themselves in this parallel Earth) making them the equivalent of old world European power. Conversely Europe would have considered to have been the more obscure and fringe part of their known world - with Eastern Europe and the Balkans being the equivalent of India, Western and Central Europe being a more disunited Indonesia/Malaysia, and the Baltics, British Islands and Scandinavian countries being the least developed Papuan-esque region. I've often tried to mess around with 3D mapping sites to create what an atlas would look like in such a world - one that centralizes South-East Asia and Australia and nearby archipelagos, and puts Europe on the "edge" of that world's imagination.

[@eyecontact2664]

R.I.P trade route R.I.P singapore

[@bobbynally3776]

Long Hawaii can't hurt you, Long Hawaii isn't real. Long Hawaii:

[@kencube86]

Australia and France will has a land border in Indian Ocean is the most unexpected thing.

[@ndirangugichuki6260]

Anyone notice at 8:02 the lakes from the US towards Canada are sort of in a diagonal line ?

[@pelletrouge3032]

@@ndirangugichuki6260 yep they are like that in real life. One of them is called great slave lake

[@splinterbyrd]

I think we'd be better to think of what the map would look like if sea levels were to *rise* by 100m

[@Ikaikaalika95]

Totally forgot to mention totally new land masses that wars will probably ensue over

[@kuy3796]

Great video! I was waiting for my country to show up when it was South America's turn and it was hilarious to see Colombia looks absolutely the same lmao

[@psychiatry-is-eugenics]

1000 meters ? 100 meters 328 feet would bring huge changes

[@SternaRegnixTube]

As a Brit I would hate to have a border with the French

[@stevewiles7132]

If sea levels dropped a thousand meters, then the Northern Hemisphere would once again be buried under a couple of miles of ice.

[@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu]

I have a feeling the xkcd version of this video would be VERY different.

[@SysidZverhy]

0:19 Oh yeah. That's the world map I want to have irl.

[@WeoXCY]

Womp Womp

[@Ismayehere]

Driving from my house to Australia seems like a great idea 💯😂

[@88balloonsonthewall70]

It does make sense having the world map being centered around your country.

[@CaribbeanCarnivals365]

Dude completely ignored the Caribbean

[@justasadmanforabanana4124]

7:04 Beringia is Back!!

[@louisgiokas2206]

What prompted this video? If sea level drop, the only mechanism I know of, is increased ice pack. That means global cooling. This is interesting because KZbin automatically put in a "Context" regarding "Climate Change".

[@sgt_s4und3r54]

The thing to consider are all the shelves that would need crossed. Just because the water went away doesn't mean the obstacles did. Any land war across these gaps would be costly and time-consuming.

[@marktrowbridge2581]

A lot of archeological opportunities since sea levels were 150 meters lower 25,000 years ago.

[@samaelingressio525]

0:25 i like more this version😂

[@JohnHBatte]

Since this happens during ice ages, which we are starting anew, canada, russia, etc actually become drastically smaller with 2 miles of ice sitting on top of them.