Why the UK Desperately Wants This Rock to Be Inhabitable 

I'm surprised you never mentioned the fact that a British guy stayed on that rock for a certain length of time in order to enhance the claim on the rock ! Probably in the 80's

Britain: it’s not just a boulder. It’s a rock.

YES HE MENTIONED FAROE ISLANDS FINALLY WE HAVE BEEN NOTICED

Prime minister: your majesty we’ve lost all our overseas territories! Queen Elizabeth: well at least I didn’t forget my facebook password

Not a soul: UK: “hey wanna see my rock collection??”

I demand all distances be given in light years

1925: UK gets Iraq 1955: UK gets a rock

“Loosing a whole world’s worth of territory has got to be rough, but what even worse is loosing is your password.“ 🤣🤣 Best segue to a sponsor EVAR

Well lads, we might have lost America. But at least we have our rock

Britain is that Monopoly board game player that just buys anything they land on in the first turn.

That rock is inhabitable? That would be the perfect place to live. Away from everyone's bullshit.

My whole life I’ve been calling it “Rockfall” I’ve read it dozens of times. I literally have a map of the UK in my room and it shows Rockall and yet I’ve never noticed.

They called it Rockall cause there's fockall there

The *actual* plaque said this: By authority of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, and in accordance with Her Majesty's instructions dated the 14th day of September, 1955, a landing was effected this day upon this island of Rockall from HMS Vidal. The Union flag was hoisted and possession of the island was taken in the name of Her Majesty. [Signed] R H Connell, Captain, HMS Vidal, 18 September 1955.

Question: Where is Rockall? Answer: It's 230 miles west of Bugger All.

"...the immortal Queen Elizabeth"... Well, not anymore...

1919: The British have the largest empire in history 2019: The British have a rock

The passive aggression in this video is overwhelming.

"The UK are experts at losing territory." I actually laughed.

Stood on Rockall for about 20 seconds back in 1984 while serving on HMS Dumbarton Castle during fishery protection duties.

Its fine though, *the UK are experts at losing territory*

*Plot Twist:* Spongebob drives the Rock and he didn't know where he parked.

3:43 coughs “China”. Man you are by far the best RU-vidr ever. I like these tiny references.

'the immortal queen elizabeth'😞

Rockall is closer to Scotland than Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico is to the US...

Sealand should invade it.

“The immortal queen elizabeth” jeez i cant believe hai was wrong

'The immortal Queen Elizabeth', not so sure anymore

Loki: We have a Hulk Britain: We have a rock.

"Ello m8 this island is the property of the british empire deal with it lol signed the queen"

Build a LIGHTHOUSE on it! Plymouth did it: Land's end Did it: Inchcape did it! Now Rockall must do it! Who will put in a BID?

"The immortal Queen Elisabeth..." Oops

St Kilda being called a tiny terrible island is a bit much, considering it is one of two places on earth with both UNESCO world heritage site status in both a cultural and natural sense (Machu Pichu is the other). Otherwise nice

Inb4 someone calls be a yankee and yells at me for calling St Kilda terrible, putting the Scottish flag in the thumbnail instead of the Union Jack, and having the music too loud.

1:28 bruh this hits different now 💀

the immortal queen Elizabeth 😂that aged well

The UK wants this Island the same reason why the US has a bunch of tiny uninhabited islands in the Pacific. Because it greatly expands their Exclusive Economic Zone.

Rockall + Gibraltar = that moment you realize the UK has a weird thing for rocks

"While Dashlane can't help prevent the dismantling of your empire, it can help you keep your passwords." 🤣🤣🤣 -My King, there's an uprising in the American Colonies! Should I send an army? -Wait, let me download Dashlane before that, it may help us...

This could be a great place to have a rock concert.

*_While England is already a city, the Rock is my country._*

I'm a brit and the comments were more entertaining than the video itself

"Since the US didn't sign the paper on the EEZ we can all go fish in "their" waters". *Change my mind*

2:43 Finally HAI. Thank you for finally giving us the correct unit of measurement. Legends use lightyears

That epic moment when The Rock and Dwayne Johnson finally met.

Thank goodness you included my preferred unit of distance, the light year.

This rock is part of Ireland, for it's written in folklore When Finn McCool took a sod of grass and threw it to the fore, And he tossed a pebble across the sea, wherever did it fall? For the sod became the Isle of Man and the pebble's called Rockall.

1:37 flag is upside down

The world: the uk should give back it’s colony’s Uk: *gives back colony’s* The world: omg you guys are so bad at keeping land LOL😂😂😂😂😂 ksjksjksj

*_China wants to know your location_*

1855: "I claim this entire continent in the name of her majesty! Rule Britannia! God save the queen!" 1955: "Dis rock, can I haz?"

When he says the queen ordered !! You know he’s making most of this up lol

ITT people making *original* "The Rock" jokes

4:26 when you use lots of pictures and fancy fonts on your school assignment to distract from the rushed content...

Rock: Exists U.K: We must Get that before someone else gets that!

Whoever writes the best song keeps the rock ,and that's Irelands wolf tones with rock on rockall

but what if i lose access to my dashlane account?

"The UK are experts at losing territory" Oof

4:09 sure But they are also experts at claiming and discovering land

"There is no flat land, so nobody can live there." - the video. (And the population of Switzerland falls over laughing) Dig some tunnels into the rock, excavate some living space in there, and one can make almost anything habitable. Maybe not pleasant, but habitable. The British gave up too easily.

UK and Ireland came to agreement on Rockall in 1988. The rock was actually claimed by Ireland first and got there before the British Navy (Fishermen Operating out of Donegal). It lies just outside the territorial waters claimed by Ireland. It is a political issue that pops up here every few years 👍🏻 great video

“The immortal Queen Elizabeth” lmao

As someone from just outside Glasgow, I've gotta say, you nailed your description of Scotland at the start 😂

I'm glad you said how much that distance was in a light year -- I was wondering!

Firstly this was a build up to a terrible advert. ALSO Greggs is from Newcastle upon Tyne and not from Scotland.

Rocks: Exist The UK: It’s free real estate!

What a brilliant video. The description of what constitutes Scotland was absolutely accurate. Who ever wrote the script deserves a Nobel prize for literature/Journalism.

4:08 so is every other empire that ever existed Not hating im just saying 🙃

Stop showing my password with every Dashlane ad.

Scandinavia - We have some of the best education & quality of life in the world England - mE hAve rOCk

"Rockall is a mostly-uninhabited island." Thousands of p'oed seagulls: "Wot u say m8?!"

His description of the Scottish is near spot on and I love it.

Greggs is a UK thing in general you silly goose.

0:14 Oi! Greggs ain’t Scottish! It’s from Newcastle Upon Tyne, England! And we are proud of our pasty heritage!

She's not very immortal anymore

You're short description of Scotland at the beginning is highly accurate. I can say, as a Scot.

Ello m8 this islet is the property of the British empire . Deal with it lol - signed da QWEEN

Piece of land: *exists* UK: Allow us to introduce ourselves Edit: Holy Shit, Thanks for 1k likes guys!

It's Towrs-hown, not Tore-shawn. Thor's harbour or haven. And Rockall is OURS!

…unsurprisingly, a nice video on the UK’s rock (and roll?) culture - good to know it had Queen Grouchy’s seal of approval.

As the Wolfe Tones put it "This rock is part of Ireland For it's written in folklore When Finn McCool took a sod of grass He threw it to the fore When he tossed a pebble across the sea Where ever did it fall For the sod became the Isle of Man Now the pebble's called Rockall"

Now while this video explains why Britain claimed Rockall and why they want to keep it, I still don't understand why they want to keep it inhabitable as mentionned in the title. If someone understood why, please help me.

I just love your transitions to sponsors.

Finally someone actually made an accurate description of Scotland, except the kilts, they really aren’t all that popular

There's a song about this. It's called "Rock on Rockall", by The Wolf Tones

"it's fine though, the UK is expert at losing territory", well, excuse me but we have to gain the territory in the first place to lose it

rockall has a massive coral platue bellow it which is a very good place to fish and it also has oil and natural gas deposits and a significant phospate deposit at the top of the rock so rockall is not just your typical rock but it is a profitable rock in the middle of a vast ocean

Thank you for putting the distances in light years. How the hell am I supposed to know the distances if they aren't given in light years?

Thanks to Chinese 'island' building technology, you'll be glad this is British in the long run. : "More people have landed on the moon than have landed on Rockall." - MP for Kilmarnock

Give all my passwords to a bunch of strangers in an unknown location sounds like the exact opposite of everything I know about passwords.

Rockall has been claimed by the U.K. by landing on Rockall on more than one occasion and raised the Union Jack 🇬🇧, the first time wasn’t 1955, it had happened some years earlier. So without argument it belongs to the U.K. and the waters around it. By the way Greggs is a company from the Northeast of England, it’s not a Scottish Company, but has shops all over the U.K.

A lot of people in Ireland claim Rockall is ours.

Why didn't they just put a building on top, with it's own roof farm and a tiny desalination plant so it could support human life without help from the shore, and therefore meet the requirement?

I always laugh when people say the British lost their empire. It's not like the Australians, new zealanders, canadians and even the americans haven't had their back every time they've needed it no questions asked. Instead of controlling their empire by force they just use persuasion. Then they have the huge list of commonwealth countries that they help out economically. This is before mentioning the islands and millitary bases they have strategically all over the world. Their empire still exists it just is hiddden from view and opperates in a more friendly way using their common interests to persuade former colonies to do their bidding and using their cultural exports (music, movies etc) to gain support from other countries.

Make a lighthouse inside the rock and just pay people to live in there with an inside growing area to make it sustainable, expensive but imagine all that fish.

the introduction into the product placement was insane :D

Shoutout to all Georgies currently screaming at Gregg's being associated with Scotland

greggs is actually english - from Newcastle upon Tyne.

Can't even pronounce "Rockall' properly

1:35 - My countries flag is being presented upside down - offensive.