Who Owns Antarctica?
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Published 2021-03-15
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Written, presented and edited by
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MARK COOPER-JONES www.twitter.com/markcooperjones
Director/DOP
JADE NAGI www.twitter.com/jade_nagi
Thanks to
Al Murray and Dan Thornton for the WWII trivia
@Sophie_L_L for the Risk game
Nig Lovell for the drum kit
Rose Bruford College for letting us borrow their costumes
All Comments (21)
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I never realized before that Antarctica was littered with perfectly preserved corpses of generations of penguins. Thanks
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First it was SONAR in space, now it's wind on the the Moon. I'm not convinced this is a serious science channel at all.
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In Norway, John Scott is a footnote in the story about the much more clever and prepared Roald Amundsen.
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In the top ten least important things in WWII, 8 is the vending machine at pearl habor is restocked the day before the attack. My great grandfather bought a snickers bar for breakfast from that machine while between submarines when the attack started, and until the day he died he never remembered wether he eat it, shoved it in his pocket,threw it away, or what. It seemingly vanished, but he always remember buying it. My family often recalls this story but have never found anything about the snickers bar.
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Jay and Tom Scott cross over when?
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"2048 gets closer every 5 minutes" In Africa, every 60 seconds, a minute passes.
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“-60 Celsius, which is equal to -60 Centigrade” hmmmmmmmmm ah yes, the floor here is made out of floor
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"Hamburgers are renamed Liberty Steaks in the US to sound less German." LOL
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I'm waiting for "Welcome to Map Men. We're the map, and here's the men."
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"Temperatures reach 60 degrees Celsius, that is 60 degrees centigrade" Never change Map Men, never change.
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The Schrödinger's cat reference at 5:28 was perfect
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Norway's claim actually does extend all the way to the south pole. On older maps it's only shown not to, because in the original wording of the claim the southern border was not explicitly defined. A few years ago Norway clarified that the claim actually extends all the way down to the pole. That "extension" was not a new claim, as that would have contradicted the Antarctic Treaty, but merely a clarification about the details of the original claim.
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"With no natives to get in the way" When has that ever stopped colonizers from drawing their own borders?
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I feel like Jay's descent into madness can be measured by the ever-growing absurdity of the Map Men intro
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Props to Map Men for always putting their sponsorships at the end of the video where you don't have to skip past them.
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6:18 ''the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Berwick upon Tweed ''
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Homework question: What’s the timezone at the centre, and why?
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Uhh, the EMPEROR Penguins are clearly the only legitimate owners of the land...
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4:23 “Because the mood on the international stage was ᵐⁿᵉʰʰ”
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6:13 CORRECTION: The Antarctic Treaty does not have an expiration date. The Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty (or the Madrid Protocol) can be reviewed after 50 years of its adoption (in 1998), which is probably where you're getting the 2048 date from. However, both the Treaty and the Madrid Protocol are eternal.
