Which Places Were ACTUALLY Discovered By Europeans? 

Still impressive that there was some land that was unknown to humans before GPS

Franz Joseph wasn't just the last emperor and king of Austria-Hungary, but also the only one. He was on trone for 68 years.

Tribes did also come together like Iroquois. Also some tribes did join/create unions as well. The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole nations joined the confederacy in order to go to war with the union and also protect their special interests as each of those respective nations operated and owned large scale slave plantations

the reason the map at the beginning is impressive, is because it's wrong, azerbaijan was named after Atropates a persian nobleman, eswatini was named after their 19th century king Mswati II, the Marshall Islands after the 18th century navy officer John Marshall , Uzbekistan after Oz beg Khan the longest reigning khan of the golden horde, Romania from the legendary Romulus, Italy from the legendary Italus, as well as many other that were not counted.

Azores comes from açor, which is the Portuguese name for a bird that was spotted in big flocks when the island was discovered. So it's pretty funny that you mentioned the geese discovered the island, close but wrong bird

I think its really more fair to say that European interests triggered global connections on a much larger scale, rather than "discovering" all the places typically attributed to them (other than all these random archipelagos which truly were European discovered). Even saying that they brought together all those tribes is just... ehh... definitely misses the mark pretty hard. They had all sorts of governance and confederations and the like. And yes, there was some pretty impressive trade routes along the Indian ocean and Indonesia due to monsoons. But it can definitely be said that global connection, trade, and knowledge really kicked up a few notches after the age of exploration suddenly had people going to the most remote and difficult to access parts of the world on the regular.

The 'discovered by Europeans' map does not include Iceland or the Faroe Islands , which were both clearly discovered by Nordic Vikings around the 10th century. Perhaps anything discovered before the 15th century doesn't count?

Toycat, you can't cover the distance of the Burke Wills expedition in an hour by plane, its just over 3 hours (because Australia is not small)

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I had never even noticed Franz Josef Land on a map

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Discovering requires 3 things, 1 something must be currently and generally unknown. 2 you have to find out about it. 3 most importantly you have to tell everyone else about it. For example, there is lithium in large amounts in the Congo. It was there but people didn't know it was there, except the locals who didn't know what those stones were. Therefor finding it and going to mine it is a discovery. Same thing goes with the discovery that lighting was electric discharge. Every one knew there was lighting, and some people would have noticed static electricity when they had wool and linen rubbing into each other creating electric shock, but realizing they were the same thing then telling people is a discovery.

this is a very interesting topic, thanks for the great vids minecraft man

I feel bad for the other channels in Project Exploration, they worked so hard on their videos and then they're getting upended by some minecraft youtuber with a computer and a greenscreen

Russia has 49 national parks and 103 nature serves, and the map in the video has just a few of both types. Those are protected nature areas, so do you really need those in the middle of nowhere if civilization isn't threatening them (directly at least)? It makes sense to me to establish them where people live. The map is from 2017, but in 2018 Russia did officially set up 1 national park and 5 nature reserves in Crimea, which actually existed way before the annexation, they just weren't integrated.

would be interesting to see how remote your most remote viewers live. like just ask in a video where your viewers live so they can type it in the comments and then make a video where you look up these places

oof, showing the map of the first nations' tribes... Being in Alberta, I'm sure that the Cree, Blackfoot, and Crow tribes will be a bit aggravated being labeled as 'small tribes' :P

Need a map showing the first sapians to each part of the world to finally put it to rest

When I discovered Thai food, just means it's new to me 🤷‍♀️

Discovering requires 3 thing, 1 something must be currently snd generally unknown. 2 you have to find out about it. 3 may importantly you have to tell everyone else about it. For example, there is lithium in large amounts in the Congo. It was there but people didn't know it was rgere, except the locals who didn't know what those stones were. Therefor finding it and going to mine it is a discovery. Same thing goes with the discovery that lighting was electric discharge. Every one knew there was lighting, and some people would have noticed static electricity when they had wool and linen rubbing into each other creating electric shock, but realizing they were the same thing then telling people is a discovery.

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"Discover" is such a controversial term because it is obviously from a European perspective, as they were the only ones going out trying to discover places unknown to them at the time. It implies a kind arrogant belief that these places weren't important until they were "discovered" by Europeans. I think that's wrong though, as we still use the word 'discover' in phrases like 'I discover a new band at the weekend', or 'I discovered a great little restaurant'. The personal nature of that discovery is implied, and I think the same can be said of these voyages of discovery.

Out by elko is the ruby mountains check out pics of it and especially Lamoille canyon. Very different from the other empty areas in NV. Also please remember to check out petroglyphs when you visit northern Nevada

Thank you for this video

Mount Kosciuszko in Australia discovered by Polish migrant-traveler-scientist-writer-adventurer Edmund Strzelecki. Polish diaspora in the world let's reunite. btw. Mauritius is the most beatiful place on Earth. Change my mind:)

you should explore Nevada on Google maps for part of a video there's alot of weird little towns here

1:10 That map is clearly wrong. It doesn't show Europe, even though europeans discovered Europe

This is a very interesting topic.

I thought I knew every country and territory and island and even most of the states or regions of countries. What the heck is Franz Josef Land?? Lol I've never heard of that place. Svalbard Island sure, Severny Island, that long skinny one north of Russia, ok, but Franz Josef Land?

Austronesians: *amateurs*

@ibx2cat you should look into the piri reis map

Why are half of the Philippine islands gone on the thumbnail?

I think Iceland and Faroes should count for this

Ayyyyyy shoutout to my hometown Cairns! 🙌

Rottnest Island in Australia hadn't been settled for at least 5000 years when Europeans arrived. There was a land Bridge that flooded. The indigenous had a name for it, but only as a thing on the horizon.

ToyCat please put the playlist link to project exploration

HOW THE FRIK DID AUSTRIA-HUNGARY DISCOVER ANYTHING

Autogas is the trade name of LPG which you can put in specially prepared cars

Actually we have somewhat recently discovered evidence of at least some vikings making it to the Azores. Because *OF COURSE* the vikings made it there...

I live in a very isolated city lol it's apparently the most isolated city in the world or sometimes the 2nd or 3rd on two lists anyway for me to drive to another city it takes a day or just under 2700 km

I'm visiting Cairns soon, I'll find out what it's like...

love these vids about maps and stuff from this channel ibxtoycat

0:00 you forgot Marshall Islands who are named after some British dude called John Marshall

that trip through australia wouldve been 3 hours

The islands above Russia listed as "Many Islands" which says it was discovered by "Russia" is incorrect. The DeLong islands north of Russia were discovered by the USA during the Jeannette Expedition. So it should be dash colored as USA and Russia.

Line Islands are marked in grey, I wonder if Kiribati doscovered them?

“I like maps.” Me: British much?

“Uhmmmm Christopher Columbus didn’t discover America, I’m pretty sure there were people there already”-🤓

11:14 didnt most of them die ?

I live in the painted desert you should come check it out.

The indigenous Australians did have tribes with elders and different language and borders

My great great grandfather was alive at the time of the Burke and Wills expedition. His daughter was still alive when I was a child.....

if this is the second channel, what is the first one?

I noticed that the map at the beginning isn't showing Alaska as part of the US. Bad design lol

15:46 he shows Gold Coast instead of Cairns

Does this graph really include the US within Europe??

yea

That Mercator map makes you to think Russia is the place with the most remote areas, but in fact, The Amazon is bigger than what that map shows and it’s more mysterious than Siberia.

How can Norway have 14 square miles of area discovered and austria hungary so much? Svalbard looks as big as Franz Joseph land.

I wonder if Allays spawn on atolls

Pretty crazy how we’re taught about the age of exploration and the new world so much in western countries. It’s really a complete anglicization of history

The thumbnail is just painful to look at. Why is the caspian see connected to the black see?

Yooooo my tribe made the map

Iceland was Setteled by Norwegians/Irish Monks not Danish

Who is your favorite explorer?

smol tribes

In 1860 no one had even walked on Antarctica yet

Another wonderfully great episode. Andrew, where do you find the time for exquisitely done vids?

did you play in the WSOP? you seem like a poker nerd?

Toycat about to get removed from the playlist lmao

Crimea is Ukraine ....

You should try playing rise of nations

A goati is so 90's

I think this whole channel is just built on how you say "FrAHnce". It brings such joy to my basic bitch American heart.

Commenting in case someone has not called out the picture of “Cairns”

Why would it show Estonia being discovered by the Russian Empire. They were there long before that discovered by the Finno-Hungarians

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You piss me off sometimes apologist

*Europeans exploring and accidentally spreading disease* the american left: this is clearly the work of Columbus

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RIP Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan in the thumbnail

Hello

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I remember the first time I was told that Columbus didn’t discover America first, I was like yeah you’re stupid. Then I later I learned that I was the stupid one

Fun fact: Where ibx is currently used to be a part of Arizona.

the US is a european country now?

I thought all land was discovered first by animals?

Thats it. Im moving to Frans Josef-land. The most based country.

0:33 Occupation is not colonisation! Italian is an equally beautiful language but they don’t deserve undue credit/blame.

The Netherland discovered Australia. It was call New Holland. Tasmania was discovered Abel Tasman (dutch)

Anyone talking about how Australia was discovered by the Dutch way before the British

Oh yeah, drawing arbitrary borders never led to any strife or chaos. Do you even hear yourself?

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Who discovered Europe if not Europeans? This map seems sus. For some reason I don't believe that Europeans discovered only islands. Lets for example take like a middle of a dessert or really dense jungles. I don't believe that everywhere except islands there were humans already. Nor that they had documented all of it. If human is on a piece of land it does not mean that he has knowledge about all of it and he knows how big it is. You wouldn't say that some random tribe in a jungle really discovered all of amazon forest. They might discovered a small portion of it. But there is no collective knowledge about whole continent so in fact they did not discovered it. If European went to China they could communicate with local people and I'm pretty sure that he could get a description of land over there. And in that sense this land was discovered by Chinese people. But if European went to Australia I doubt that they could get a description of the whole continent. There surely was a part of the continent that wasn't part of a local knowledge and maybe refereed as "great unknown".

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Obviously people lived in these places before but it's the fact that they discovered these places for themselves and for their world like the Europeans discovered the new world for the old world since nobody in Africa Asia or Europe knew that the America's existed and of course they helped the Americans discovered about the rest of the rest of the world this whole dumbing down to they were people all ready there is just not looking at the broader broader picture and really comes from people that don't really know what they're talking about. Yes it's true Europeans didn't discover it for the people that live there but they discovered it for all the people who didn't live there and didn't know it existed since they were the ones that were exploring the world's oceans in the 15th through 17th centuries

Woah so Salvador is named after Jesus Christ

Those Islands (Josefs land) didn't exist there before, CERN changed it

No, actually prehistoric fish discovered all land because they evolved to go on land first