Actually if you want to illegally cross the American Canadian border, the best place to do so would probably be through the Boundry Waters (Minnesota) and Quetico (Ontario). Both are large wilderness areas so if you wanted to you could litteraly just canoe across the border. Not that I've ever done that ;)
"Mosquito Fire" just means it's a fire, and it probably started near a place called Mosquito, because we name the large fires, that one in particular having been going since early September and having survived a bout of rain. It's sorta like how hurricanes get named, though usually is after a nearby location instead of arbitrary. Some of the memorable semi-recent ones are the Camp Fire (not joking, it wiped out a place called Paradise), the King Fire, and Caldor Fire. (Caldor being a placename that's a portmanteau of Calaveras and Amador counties.)
13:08 i looked it up, and apparently it was just a really bad wildfire. it was called the "mosquito fire" because it happened near mosquito ridge road. although a swarm of flaming mosquitoes is arguably more terrifying.
@@shqip_sumejja The "Line of Control" between the Indian & Pakistani parts of Kashmir has survived for decades, by mutual agreement of both countries. Not at all arbitrary. Keeping Hindu and Islamic areas apart was the main purpose of the lines drawn during the partition of British India in 1947. You could not have done better. So why are you complaining?
that interactive flooding map ignores the dutch reaction, we will punch the water into a pulp and then use the pulp to make more levies and dikes or somehow sell it with a good profit margin. Not really, but there is a 6 meter high protection along the coast, there are controlled overflow regions near rivers for floodings and pumping stations everywhere to control water levels so its downright silly it shows a flooding at 1 meter, at most the overflow regions should be coloured blue, which on a map would look like little lakes near the rivers.
"You can see the UK would have a land border with France and I'm disgusted just thinking about the idea." That joke just earned you a patron. Love your vids, been thinking about being a patron for a while. Keep up the low effort!
Isn't it true that the "new land" that will show up will be very low (altitude wise) and therefore the temperatures will be very hot down there? If so, would that land be suitable for farming or even habitable for humans?
So the reason why America has that strange price of land next to Canada called the “panhandle” is quite interesting. When the U.S first bought Alaska from Russia, the borders weren’t completely defined. So for a long time the border between Alaska and Yukon was unknown, although it didn’t matter very much to either country because it wasn’t being used for much. That was until the Yukon gold rush where they found gold in the rivers of western Yukon. The panhandle was now very important as it meant that the country who owned it could have all the gold in it. At the time, Canada could not have its own international affairs, and would rely on England to handle them. In debating who got the panhandle, England then had the final vote on who gets it. Although Canada had thought this meant they had already won, England decided to give it to the States. The reason was that England would much rather have Canada be angry at them than America, because Canada was still apart of the UK and would let it go, and America had a much stronger Military and Economy. You learn something new every day.
what, you mean they don't have giant flaming mosquitos in the UK? i know you have to be joking because, i mean, like, *everybody* knows about the giant flaming mosquitos.
When the US purchased Alaska from Russia, (a) Canada wasn't even really a country and (b) coastlines and other navigable areas were far more valuable. It's not likely to change, but in practice, it doesn't matter much because hardly anything happens on either side of the border for most of the Alaskan border. Vegas is about the only place on the Colorado River that WON'T run out of water. First, it has handled drought mitigation better than any other River state, and second, the lowest "straw" in Lake Mead is below the level at which Hoover Dam won't operate (thus cutting off California agriculture, the river's single biggest water-user).
8:50 as Floridian I can confirm that that’s a very real threat, my uncle got it and it scared him for life, his whole face is just unrecognizable now, that’s one of the reasons I don’t swim in the ocean
The reason that the U.S. owns that strip of land that connects to Alaska is because one time, i forget when, the US found gold there, but then Canada got into a dispute with the US about it, and they just settled it to US, i think, might not be true
Florida isn’t that bad, normally the hurricanes that hit doesn’t do too much damage because most of our stuff is build to protect against them. That just proves this one really was rough.
3:50 I think the weird extrusion of the border is leftover from russian expansion during the Russian American company's occupation of Alaska, and was included in the sale to the U.S. (might need to fact check just my 2 cents)
Timor Leste will be the next Singapore, if Indonesia doesn't look at them the wrong way. Indonesia might lost west Papua. Either joining Papua New Guinea, or absorbed by Australia Singapore ... Goodbye Singapore! They'd be better to rejoin Malaysia, or Indonesia will casually walk over there and claim the area. Brunei Darussalam might also absorbed by Malaysia. Unless they found another oil reserves.
This would be horrible! Countries like germany would become DOUBLE land locked!! The balkans and even turkey would be basically cut off from the world's markets, because they lose any access to waterways for thousands of kilometers
100% that we just live in florida. We don't see the "big one" unless you are on the coast. The "illness" is something that comes up every year when the water temps sit above 80F for multiple days. It just ends up getting spread more due to Hurricanes.? Unless I am thinking of the wrong flesh eating illness
Went to the map to check my location but the map is faulty... Its not correct at all and error margin is like +-25 or 50m. Edit: It doesnt even use correct information, it just assumes. Like my country would flood in the middle before the coast would go, like at the waist its low land and after that floods it would fill the middle.
I’ve been to Alaska and it’s panhandle and I’m sure that the answer to your question about why the United States needs that part of Alaska is gold. Wr didn’t know it when we purchased it from Russia, though.
I tried those map, its obviously false to produce fearmaking pictures, you have to set the level to -9 to see the netherlands as they are today, for the northseacoast of germany -7 is enough, for poland you need -6, for italy -9.
The Alaska Panhandle dispute was one of the first major points of contention between Canada and the UK. The UK negotiated the deal on Canada's behalf as a colony, as they wanted to improve their relationship with the US.
Though a faliure of those maps is the increased erosion leads to far more land loss at a low level of sea level rise. Though still not the main problem with global warming.
Just closing the Gibralatar strait would cause the Mediterranean Sea to disappear within a few decades. So you could count a giant landmass instead of that as well
