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The Phantom Island of Google Maps
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Why did Google Maps have a big black smudge before 2012? And why did it disappear? And what does it have to do with Captain Cook? And what is a phantom island?
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Why is North up?
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What went wrong with the Tube Map?
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The Tube Map nearly looked very different
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Why are there no bridges in East London?
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Tower Bridge could have looked very different
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What happened to Old London Bridge?
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The longitude problem: history's deadliest riddle
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How many continents are there?
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The mystery of the squarest country
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Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?
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The map that saved the most lives
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What's wrong with London's boroughs?
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What's wrong with London's boroughs?
Why does London have 32 boroughs?
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Why does London have 32 boroughs?
The world's silliest time zones
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The world's silliest time zones
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Why every world map is wrong
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Why every world map is wrong
Why do maps show places that don't exist?
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Why do maps show places that don't exist?
The world's oldest border?
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The world's oldest border?
Where does London stop?
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What happened to London's trams?
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Komentáře

  • @clamdove3292
    @clamdove3292 Před 7 hodinami

    2:31 holy shit, so many people in the neighborhood!

  • @craighirst5631
    @craighirst5631 Před 8 hodinami

    It looks like you've joined Australia and New Guinea together At the end of the video

  • @40Two
    @40Two Před 10 hodinami

    Well I can't do it, but look up jay foreman's song "Where'd you get your food from, Grandma?" on youtube, his mouth trumpet solo in that is iconic

  • @louisesargent5006
    @louisesargent5006 Před 11 hodinami

    When you’re wishing there was more Monty Python and Look Around You in existence and then discover these videos everything is alright again

  • @blutechno6326
    @blutechno6326 Před 11 hodinami

    ireland mentioned lets go love my little island

  • @MrFlashjumper
    @MrFlashjumper Před 12 hodinami

    The Wrong Bin sketch is hilarious…and so true!!!

  • @Great_WesternTVFan
    @Great_WesternTVFan Před 12 hodinami

    4:26 I laughed so hard 🤣

  • @ThomasMuirAudionaut
    @ThomasMuirAudionaut Před 13 hodinami

    because western civilisation began there. how old is skarra brae again England?

  • @PakiBoy-gz5yk
    @PakiBoy-gz5yk Před 13 hodinami

    the microphone voices were funny. 😅

  • @user-vc6xu2wm8j
    @user-vc6xu2wm8j Před 13 hodinami

    Does anyone Les what the Uk looks like?

  • @user-vc6xu2wm8j
    @user-vc6xu2wm8j Před 14 hodinami

    Here Are all the Countries they look like Kuwait:Thumb Madagascar:Lean Burundi:Heart Qatar:Bean India:Diamond Slovenia:Splot Mauritania:L Malawi:Seahorse Somalia:Sock Australia:CatDog Kazakhstan:A Turtle with a Leaf stuck in its mouth Peru: Resting dog Guyana: Ghost Ethiopia and Switzerland: Potato Wedges Thailand: Elephant head shape Botswana: Flounder Chad: Jay Leno Mongolia: Bat Congo: Kinda Foxy Myanmar:Genie and Not even Sightly boxy Sri Lanka: Raindrop Kyrgyzstan: Bird in Flight Cameroon: Chicken with a Huge Badonkadonk Gambia,Vietnam and Panama: Snakes Palau: Jellyfish Pakistani: Duck Azerbaijan: A bird that’s Ben Ran Over by a TRUCK! Monkey: Armenian Shooting star: Laotian Jamaica,Malta and Niger: Creatures from the Ocean UK: And old witch sitting sideways on a Pig

  • @ZeldaTheSwordsman
    @ZeldaTheSwordsman Před 14 hodinami

    Is "Glorified dirt clod with no staying power that eroded relatively swiftly" one of the causes of phantom islands?

  • @user-vc6xu2wm8j
    @user-vc6xu2wm8j Před 14 hodinami

    Hey @Jay Foreman What Brazil is too?

  • @anne.andromeda
    @anne.andromeda Před 15 hodinami

    This song went from a bit revelant to extremely revelant, to unrevelant at all

  • @Shmuel420
    @Shmuel420 Před 16 hodinami

    The chinese coming to north america in the 1300s "theory" hold about the same amount of water as the theory that Africans actually discovered America thousands of years ago and became the Native Americans. Both theories are unsubstantiated bullshit lmfao

  • @jasanand5597
    @jasanand5597 Před 16 hodinami

    You’re gonna hurt your penis maskelyn!! 😨😨😨😱😱😱😱😱 6:02

  • @OransGames
    @OransGames Před 16 hodinami

    Equatorial Guinea Is Square!

  • @gormster
    @gormster Před 19 hodinami

    9:40 How the heck did you convince the journey planner to give you this insanely convoluted route? Is there a secret “avoid green park” checkbox hidden somewhere?

    • @JayForeman
      @JayForeman Před 19 hodinami

      It’s an animation I faked myself. Glad someone noticed! :)

  • @errolanthony7462
    @errolanthony7462 Před 21 hodinou

    Tower Bridge is acknowledged for 4 seconds but it does link to East London along side London Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Millennium Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge into East Central London. Interesting video and great presenting though

    • @JayForeman
      @JayForeman Před 18 hodinami

      If you’d like to see Tower Bridge acknowledged for a full ten minutes, check out our previous episode.

  • @jeffthemagicalpufferfishco9006

    Its ok guys, any islands we found that actually did exist will be underwater soon anyway

  • @Millymullfoxyblueagain
    @Millymullfoxyblueagain Před 23 hodinami

    6:53 even that map has the island of California!

  • @mattm7220
    @mattm7220 Před 23 hodinami

    Can't wait til Google decides to pull a Google and kill off their undersea cables. RIP Google Podcasts, Google Domains, Stadia, Hangouts, CZcams Originals, etc.

  • @tehpanda64
    @tehpanda64 Před 23 hodinami

    My backyard goes undiscovered about every 3 weeks, until I finally get around to mowing it.

  • @a95660803
    @a95660803 Před dnem

    Can William Cowley's discovery of the Falkland islands be a justification of UK's domination of the Falklands as it's territory against Argentina?

    • @JayForeman
      @JayForeman Před dnem

      He didn’t discover the Falklands. And he didn’t think he had either. He thought he’d discovered another island 200ish miles north that wasn’t the Falklands.

  • @margo5583
    @margo5583 Před dnem

    Fake royals, all government are puppets, voting is a waste of time ,you get more of the same .they are part of the same bird ,each have a wing. The polices change to fool the people. The government do what they are told by the real ones ruling the world ,the hidden ones. The world will know the truth .

  • @marclacroix1365
    @marclacroix1365 Před dnem

    One of my favourite videos from this channel. Though, the Paris arrondissements do have "names". The 1st, is called the Louvre, 3rd, Temple.... Basically just small names...

  • @samuela-aegisdottir

    Totaly agree with the argument in 5:10. We, who live in democracy, are responsible for our country's future and should vote. If there is no party we like, we should start one. We can decide not to vote, but then we don't have the right to be angry with the results.

    • @jimmyboy95
      @jimmyboy95 Před 17 hodinami

      Problem is we 100% have the right to be angry with the results, not like it's non-voters that are typically whining about them anyways. We already know that we the people have no responsibility nor power to shape the country or its future so why bother. Please wake up my friend. Stop wasting your time on something that will never change.

  • @samuela-aegisdottir

    There is another reason why to vote even for a party that don't have a chance: in some countries (like Czechia), the parties gets financial benefits from the stae if they cross the 3% line. That means that the party you like can get more money for future campaigns.

  • @tastyham
    @tastyham Před dnem

    No, .cat isn't actually the same kind of stuff as .ninja or .pizza : it's Catalonia :)

  • @Vinemaple
    @Vinemaple Před dnem

    Locally famous are Adolphus and Gordon Islands in the Salish Sea, reported by a US Navy explorer who is presumed to have wanted more things to name after historical admirals. They're probably not mentioned here because (a) nobody else ever drew them on further maps, and (b) they're not in the open ocean, and therefore weren't the kind of nuisance the ones in this video were.

  • @Sloyment
    @Sloyment Před dnem

    The blue oceans in Google maps satellite view are not satellite imagery but color coded bathymetry data. On real satellite imagery, the ocean appears black. This is why this “island” appears black.

  • @MrMayor.
    @MrMayor. Před dnem

    Random fun fact - jay foreman knows of he existence of the roblox train game scr (stepford county railway)

  • @zserlpq8512
    @zserlpq8512 Před dnem

    if everyone agrees that the continent should be australia then the country australia should name itself the united states of australia

  • @zserlpq8512
    @zserlpq8512 Před dnem

    the hair length changes go crazy. probably took a whole year to make

  • @8bvg300
    @8bvg300 Před dnem

    And as we know... A magnet points to its opposite pole, so I deed South is up

  • @fionnagrant6636
    @fionnagrant6636 Před dnem

    .tv? Tuvalu? Locking in my guess before I watch. I bet I'm wrong.

    • @fionnagrant6636
      @fionnagrant6636 Před dnem

      It's been more than a week, and I still watch your ads. Thank you for being actually entertaining.

    • @fionnagrant6636
      @fionnagrant6636 Před dnem

      Thank you also for the joke about Putin.

    • @fionnagrant6636
      @fionnagrant6636 Před dnem

      I had heard of Tokelau, and I am disappointed in myself for getting it wrong. Wait a minute, which was more popular? .tv or .tk?

  • @Preston241
    @Preston241 Před dnem

    5:53 aged poorly

  • @Shirvash
    @Shirvash Před dnem

    Severing Europe into a separate continent is absurd. Only Europeans could come up with this in order to distinguish themselves from the rest and consider themselves special. If there is a clear border between Europe and Asia, then where do Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia belong? But if we assume that Europe stands out from other continents because of culture, language and ethnicity, then why are the Arabian Peninsula, India and China located on the same continent?

    • @JayForeman
      @JayForeman Před dnem

      This is a VERY good question and I’m annoyed we didn’t address this properly in the video. Apparently (I found out a long time after uploading) it all comes down to the ancient Greeks, who were the first to invent a distinction between the regions of Europe, Asia and Africa. The divide persisted for so many centuries mostly because of religion.

  • @matthewlee9342
    @matthewlee9342 Před dnem

    and Toronto is Divided into 6 Boroughs, 2 of which were official Cities and the rest are actual boroughs Those 6 are: City of Toronto (Old Toronto), City of York, Borough of North York, Borough of Scarborough, Borough of Etobicoke and Borough of East York

  • @jasanand5597
    @jasanand5597 Před dnem

    Hahahahahaahahaha😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Hahahahahahahaha😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒 3:17

  • @adfvthgfsybgcnbkfehvsjb

    Kidnapping PSA If you’re a kid reading this, I wanted to let you know that being kidnapped is VERY bad, for reasons you might not know about yet (and don’t need to), but you probably don’t need to worry too much. Kidnapping is pretty rare, but nobody on the Titanic thought they were about to plummet into the depths of the ocean, so you should still keep this info in the back of your mind, Juuust in case. <<THE MOST IMPORTANT PART>>. My main reason for writing this is to just tell you that if a car pulls up to you, even if they look genuinely confused, or if a stranger talks to you, or if somebody follows you, just run. I have friends that talked to people in cars before and I just wanted to let you know that that’s not safe. They could very easily take you. All of the other info in this is stuff you probably know already, I just mostly wanted to make sure you knew THIS, specifically. <<THE OTHER MOST IMPORTANT PART>>: When talking to people on the internet, Never, and I mean never, exchange contact info or personal info, or anything they can use to chat with you privately (like discord or other social media accounts). Never date them, either. If they try to guilt trip you into doing anything you don't want to do, don't do it, and tell your parents about it. If they threaten to do awful things to themself, you, or others, tell your parents, or some other trusted adults, and then you guys can handle the situation together. You might lose certain computer/internet privileges, but honestly if the situation ever gets this drastic you probably aren't going to care that much, and getting away from this person is way more important. If you’re an adult reading this, pass this kind of info on to your kid. I know you know all of this stuff already, and it’s really not my business to tell you how to parent your kids (I’m a kid myself), but this stuff is important to know. Also if you’re a parent, make sure you emphasize how important it is to learn about this sort of thing. My parents always told me all the tips and tricks as well as all the strategies used by kidnappers, and I never really cared all that much, because they never really told me why I had to be careful, just that I did. Make sure they’re scared enough that in the rare instance someone does come after them, your kid fights back and fights back hard. You should also make sure you have a codeword, and keep up-to-date info and pictures of your kid to help identify them. If you get a weird feeling about an adult, just run away. Being polite is good, but your safety matters more. If they ask you to do anything or go anywhere, don't do it, even if it sounds like fun. If they offer food or candy or gifts, don’t take it. If they tell you to go to their car or go anywhere, RUN. If they try to take you to their car, fight back in whatever way you can. Scream. Shout. Bite. Do whatever you can to escape. Even if they fight you back, keep fighting. Gouge their eyes if you need to, or kick/punch them in the privates. If they try to make you come with them in ANY way, run away. A very common strategy they use is to tell you that there’s an emergency at home or your mom was hurt or something. If you don’t know them, it doesn’t matter, just run away, even if they claim to know your friends and family, heck, EVEN IF they have evidence (they could have looked stuff up). Make sure you know what houses are safe to run to in case of an emergency. If they ask you personal questions, don’t answer them. Memorize your parents’ phone numbers, as well as your address and your full name. <<ALSO, ONE MORE THING>>, completely different topic, but be careful about how many pills you take and if you’re taking the right pills. I don’t really have anything more to add on this particular topic, but pill overdoses are incredibly common, and I almost took too many pills myself, so I wanted to make sure that nobody else does that too.

  • @h8GW
    @h8GW Před dnem

    More inaccuracies! Calling what's obviously duct tape "electrical tape", is clearly the most egregious fake news Map Men has spread to date!!

  • @IonlyPlayz
    @IonlyPlayz Před dnem

    5:12 just curious, what is this song?

  • @19maurice66
    @19maurice66 Před dnem

    Jdhs

  • @h8GW
    @h8GW Před dnem

    And people wonder why all the printed map companies died.

  • @returnofthestrangers

    ENGLAND sold everything and brought the whole world in .....I remember made in England had huge value before 2000 in most countries

  • @jasanand5597
    @jasanand5597 Před dnem

    Did you know Jay, Olympics in Europe are celebrating Paris 2024! That’s why in France they remember that.

  • @robinbantigny8640
    @robinbantigny8640 Před dnem

    The amazonian woman made we spit my hot chocolate on my laptop. thanks.

  • @BloxyMuto
    @BloxyMuto Před dnem

    Jersey isn’t a phantom island by the way

  • @whoeveriam2665
    @whoeveriam2665 Před dnem

    3:51 we all lived here once