Where is the arctic circle
The Arctic Circle Is Losing A Country (All Arctic Countries)
hello I'm to camp welcome back so a
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serious way to talk about drug free and
the world and stuff and today Onis talk
about the Arctic Circle
because when the Arctic is brought in TV
shows and movies and such it's usually
just referred to very vaguely and
generate without a fixed location is
just like oh yeah it's a faraway place
with cold stuff and you don't want to go
there because it's so far away in cold
and it's like the opposite of Antarctica
but the truth is although it is
generally cold in the Arctic and
although it is generally quite far north
the Arctic Circle is a precisely defined
region and it's not what you might
figure it's not defined by temperature
it's not defined by degrees of latitude
or being the opposite Antartica instead
the way the Arctic Circle is defined is
the point on earth where you've gone far
enough north where you officially have a
24-hour day and a 24-hour night the Sun
will rise for 24 hours in a rotor in the
summer and it'll set for 24 hours in a
row during the winter obviously in most
places in the Arctic it sets for a lot
longer and it rises for a lot longer
depending on your season that is how you
find where the Arctic Circle is which
means it's actually changing every
single year and in case you want to see
what it looks like right now here is the
Arctic Circle on a Makita stone map
flatmap thorn you were used to on this
map it's technically actually a
rectangle because that's what the map
does to the whole globe so if you
actually prefer this map technically
speaking it's the Arctic rectangle not
the Arctic Circle however for today's
video we're gonna be using the Arctic
Circle just to keep things a bit simpler
so yeah this is the Arctic Circle as you
can see it's defined as being a
circumference around the North Pole and
yeah there are eight countries which
have territory inside it right now there
is Russia there is no way there is
Finland Sweden Iceland Greenland which
is Denmark but it's a non sovereign
country within the Kingdom of Denmark so
you can say Denmark we can say Greenland
whichever one makes you happier then
we've got Canada then magar Laska eight
countries easy is that right and yeah
the interesting thing about this though
to me is like okay so there's an Arctic
Circle and it's defined as being a
circle only one use a globe which will
use the rest this video what about the
opposite of that if you go to the other
side of the globe is it still the Arctic
Circle or is there the Antarctic Circle
because you might have something about
the Antarctic Circle but it's a much
less interesting thing to me because
again this is the Arctic circus like all
this countries there's cultures there's
people's the Antarctic Circle looks like
this it is literally a ring roughly
drawn around Antarctica and yeah the
interesting thing about this is at the
ha Texaco is much colder than the Arctic
Circle generally speaking which is
already very cold which is why it pretty
much nothing lives there especially no
people so there's no cultures there's no
histories and even today although some
countries are allowed to claim their
there are very few countries that
actively enforce their claims and there
are very few countries who expect to get
any use from this in the next hundred
200 whatever years because Antarctica
right now is pretty much unusable
however the Arctic Circle which is again
kind of like the opposite of Antarctica
you don't realize when you look at a
flat map but like the earth is very
top-heavy which means there a lot of the
places you live right now would be very
cold on the opposite side the globe
interesting kind of fact there but that
means the lava the otic circle is
habited by countries you know and love
such as Russia Sweden Finland Norway
Iceland Greenland Canada the USA etc fun
fact I've been to all eh but let's talk
about those 8 countries because they
have a lot of interesting things in
common however I should mention it's
really seven countries we're talking
about because the first country on its
dive into is Iceland so Iceland is a
country with many famous things about it
although it's not very icy and it's sir
you know it's a fun fact about Iceland
but yeah basically
although Iceland technically has some
territory in the Arctic Circle like all
of these other countries where they have
a puppet
Iceland has the tiniest part of the
territory in the otic circle just their
furthest North Island it's called
grimsey is in the Arctic Circle and just
this island right here
grim sea is only about half in the
Arctic Circle if you live on the SAP
half the island where most the people do
actually live then you actually have
about 23 hours and 58 minutes of day in
the summer and a 23 hour 58 minute night
in the winter but that's not quite
Arctic Circle right now the otic circle
is about halfway up the island and
because the Arctic Circle moves every
single year if you cursed as to why that
is by the way it's not usually it's like
all global warming's coming to get you
in this case it's nicely to do glove
warming it's just a natural the earth
tilts very slightly by about a degree
change every 20,000 years and right now
it's tilting in a way that moves the
Arctic Circle north slightly by a few
meters every single year so by about
2050 or so in about 30 years none of my
son's territory will be covered by the
Arctic Circle which means that there's
going to be seven countries in the
Arctic Circle so we mostly won't talk
about Iceland today because I mean like
literally it's like one island it's an
interesting enough island they have
about 80 people living there and they
have a big interest in chess so at one
point a random
American chess grandmaster just decided
to fund their own like crazy never went
there himself he was just like let's
give them a bunch of money and in his
will he left even more money for them so
they're all very grateful for that
also they recently voted to merge with
one of the larger cities nice land which
is just the south here
a key area I can't set correctly I'm
sorry if you're Icelandic I love you
really but yeah basically they decide to
merge together which is an inch and
little thing so that now the territory
of actuary technically includes this
island right here so yeah weird facts
about Iceland again I can talk about
Iceland all day but today it doesn't
really relate to the Arctic Circle so we
won't do it too much instead we'll talk
about the fact that the Arctic Circle
covers about a it's about 1 in 20 of the
world's area just alone so about 5% of
the world's surface it's closer to 4 but
you know 4 to 5% of the world's surface
is in the Arctic Circle this this area
right here is about 45% of the world's
area you know the area we can exist in
it's more than that if the world's land
area because there's a lot of ocean but
it's about the amount of shut the water
area but despite that only four million
people live there
and that might sound like about right
like ok 4 percent 4 million people that
sounds about great but then you consider
oh there's not 100 million people
there's over 7 billion people on earth
because that and that means that in this
area in 4% of the world's you know
surfaces there despite that on the less
than 1/10 of a percent of the world's
population lives there it's very very
very population
you know scattered to say the least and
yeah this means that every country has
one thing in common and that is very
unpopulated north's because countries
that have their territory in the offic
circle generally don't have much of
their population they have a lot of
territory there like Canada huge amount
Denmark you know the vast majority of
Denmark's land is actually in the Arctic
Circle
however despite that none of that let
not the vast majority population is not
in the Arctic Circle the vast majority
of anything country's population is well
well stuff of that and interestingly
enough this means that all of their
capital cities so if you look at
Helsinki Moscow Hakan Oslo in fact if we
look at the Scandinavian countries
they're all very - but all of their
capitals are very far south in fact
Helsinki is the furthest south and
Finland almost that you can get not
quite but almost and it actually is the
even though despite that it's the
furthest north city of over a million
people
seguro Helsinki fun fact for you right
there but then you look at our you know
calm Oh
Reykjavik even Greenland if you consider
it to be its own country even though
again within the king of denmark their
capital is still south of the Arctic
Circle despite most of Greenland's
territory being north
Canada's is very far south every single
one of these can even Alaska's you know
state capital Anchorage all of that I
think actually largest city let's say
for now but basically there are eight
cities eight capitals etc and they're
all very far south of the Arctic Circle
this is because countries have land
north of that again most of their people
don't live there their actual center you
know they're sending their geographic
center might be further north but their
population center the center of you know
their their whole system the whole
governmental system is all very far
south so just keep that in mind speaker
however despite the fact that most large
cities in most other countries are very
far south again look at Moscow st.
Petersburg and etc in Russia which is a
very fond off country look at Canada as
the best example all of their cities are
pretty much next to the border with the
USA despite that there are a couple of
cities in the Arctic or quite a few
they're just not very large with the
exception being the mask so you know how
I said roughly four million people live
you know north of the Arctic Circle
about ten percent of those live in one
city in Russia this one city right here
has a huge density of population it's
the big exception to the rule it gets a
lot warmer than the rest of the Arctic
Circle in latitude and it's one of the
farthest north cities of any size you
can find again it's a huge industrial
Russian city and if you want to see what
it looks like it looks like a normal
place you can't you can barely even tell
looking at just a random street view
just for an example you can barely even
tell looking at the place I mean this is
a bad example right but you can barely
tell looking at most of the place that
it is an Arctic City this just looks
like oh yeah this is Russia like is this
Moscow is this another major city no
this is Murmansk it's deep into the
Arctic Circle but with with this
exception which even then it's not
hugely deep into the circle all of the
large cities which have found north of
the Arctic are actually optical I should
say are all pretty you know small for
their size and still pretty fast now
again bear in mind that the Arctic
Circle does go you have that far north
you can see how like at the very edge of
that is where in elec cities like mance
girl like you know normo cities in
Alaska etc most people who live in the
Arctic Circle live just the
north of the border which is why another
major city Tromso again it's it's only a
little bit north of it the my up favored
example vote is one you'll find in in
Russia because again most of the larger
cities which are north of the Arctic
Circle are found in Russia and one of
the biggest examples in my opinion is
Nora Liske
so this is Nora Liske right here or no
risk again I'm not like I'm not a
Russian pronunciation genius hopefully
that's not what you came to this video
for if it is I'm sorry for you but if
you look at this city right here for
instance one there is a Lenin statue
which is a benefit we'd want to find and
two this is a very clear example of like
this is a city in the Arctic that was
built to be an Arctic powerhouse if you
look at it you can see it was literally
constructed and honestly yeah yeah as in
like it was very clearly designed it's
got a grid and everything like that and
yeah this is a good example of like a
prebuilt city which struggles in the
Arctic where as Murmansk is one which
does surprisingly well sing with tromsø
etc so yeah basically most settlements
in the Arctic Circle very far south and
not very populated in the grand scheme
of things and although a lot of people
live in these huge cities a huge
percentage of them do a lot of people
also live in very remote towns villages
etc if you look at resolute for instance
which is just a random place in Canada
this is one of the places that just
blows my mind is like oh wow some people
live there it exists this is the center
of civilization on the entire island
it's like a few shacks where you can go
and buy something I guess and then it's
pure wilderness off that you can
literally see the line where it's like
oh and then it's the wild and because
the the villages the settlements are so
small and so far apart it means there's
pretty much no infrastructure this more
north and I mentioned in my video
talking about how like Oh yesa Kenda has
bad transport this reason it's not just
because it's not really feasible to you
know have a good link to you know
resolute on this side and right here
it's not just because it's not really
feasible in terms of the economics to
have a huge highway going from you know
all the way north in Alaska to all the
way south it's not just for practical
reasons they don't do it it's because
you know first sorry for theoretical
reasons it's also practically very hard
to build this bond North the permafrost
goes up and down it makes it hugely
difficult to construct anything up here
which is why everything you see this
barn off looks like kind of a mess so
let's take another example one of my
favorite just questionable cities which
is Barrow Alaska it has
second name which is used in Google Maps
encash Kuras they had a referendum on
changing it and it was a that's a whole
thing so they change their name back to
the native people name so I can't say it
cuz look at that look at this
combination of characters together can
you say utq IA g Vic
you took Vic ID enough anyway that said
so they change their name recently but
Barrow Alaska is but you probably know
it as if you know your cities in Alaska
and this is a city which one blows my
mind that it exists so if we go onto
just a random street view of it it's
like oh so yeah it's look at everything
around here you can see how everything's
built differently the every car is built
differently you know it's like a
different type of car all the way if
their life is so hugely different in
terms of what they can economically get
available to them and how they have to
live their life than what the house has
looked like but yet so much is still the
same despite the fact that it's one of
the most northern Lisa I think it's the
most northern set up settlement in
America despite that fact there is still
a Japanese restaurant I looked into this
particular once I was like a sucker
restaurant is that really a Japanese
restaurant yeah it's Japanese restaurant
set up by Korean immigrants to America I
don't know why Koreans would emigrate to
this far north in Alaska and then set up
a Japanese restaurant I cannot wrap my
head around why that's the case
or why that's a thing but it is a thing
there is so many things up here well you
know there's a bank there is a fertile
there's a pizza shop despite it being a
really harsh place where if you go
outside in the winter at just the wrong
time and you forget your keys and you
can't go back in your house you'll
freeze to death in the outside you have
minutes to get to the colder you know
it's it's deadly it is not just harsh to
survive economically it's harsh to
survive on a physical level but there's
a Mexican Grill here there's a it's it's
um it to me singing at a pub less place
but like this but free pass in
population no roads in or out the only
things that get to them because there's
no even really practical ice access is
you know Plains despite that people kind
of fried and still live like normal
there and I find that just be hugely
fastening that despite the Arctic Circle
again I mentioned it's not based on
climate but generally speaking is very
cold
despite that people managed to make it
work and it's just like another thing
we're like you know how some people come
you know are used to living in places
where it's always warm I think you know
California is the big stick
I love this rust it's warm all year
round it sometimes gets less warm or
more warm but it's always warm there I
live somewhere where there's about 15
degrees of temperature variance between
like a normal summer day and normal
winter day and that's really low
parently compared to the urban average
some people live in places where you
have like a huge hundred degrees spread
there are places in the optic that can
be as hot as 30 degrees in the the
summer or as cold as minus 50 in the
winter in the same city in the same
place you have to deal with both of
those extremes and that is just a fact
of life for some people a small
percentage of the most population but it
is still a fact of life
and yeah I just find that pretty
interesting so the other facts we should
talk about well talking about the Arctic
is that the Arctic is a lot colder than
it should be sorry a lot warmer than it
should be the reason so many people live
in the Arctic 4 million compared to
literally you're measuring in the the
dozens for Antarctica and even then they
don't permanently live there they like
live on rotations no one really wants
live in Antarctica and does for any
non-essential reasons but a lot of
people live in the Arctic and that's
where they made their houses so how is
that the case and for the longest time
I've never understood how like people
always say like oh there's the Jetstream
and there's the oceans and they keep you
warm but actually the Arctic is kept
warm by the ocean and that seems weird
but because there is so much ocean here
that again
Antarctica is a permanent lab mess there
is no permanent landmass at the North
Pole there are stations there there are
things of flags in and so on and so
forth but there is no permanent ice on
the Arctic which means that there is
water there all times water always stays
I think the coldest it gets is like
minus 1 then it starts to freeze but
because there's so much water there
which isn't freezing that keeps
everything around it a lot warmer it's a
really weird effect which means that
effectively a lot of places which should
otherwise be entirely freezing managed
to survive that's why a lot of
northernmost last shoots in Europe for
instance are freezing on the upside of
you know in the North America and I find
that kind of fascinating I also find it
fascinating that again in North America
Europe Asia all have land
Northy otic circle but only antarctica
has land south of the Antarctic Circle
and also it's worth noting the Arctic
Circle and the struggle of how cold is
up there is one of the biggest problems
of I guess Russia so the reason again
one of the things that I think confuses
people a lot at first is like Russia
such a hard struggle to get Crimea let's
not focus on where it belongs to but
let's just say they really wanted Crimea
why would they even care so much by
having a port here it doesn't make sense
Russia has so much ocean why did they
never dominate the oceans why did they
never have a huge you know vast empire
which belong to them because they could
colonize the seas and that's because
most of their sea was not usable for
most of the year if it freezes in the
winter your ships can't go anywhere so
Russia mainly has two fleets they have a
pacific fleet which i think is based at
Vladivostok I'm not I'm not innately
aware of all the Russian military
tactics but I believe there the fleet
based in the Far East and they have a
fleet based in in the Black Sea over
here they that's the only places they
can actually base ships because even if
you ignore the fact that there's a huge
you have to go for so many countries and
pasta Denmark etc to get out from here
it freezes over here it freezes over all
the way up here most of Russia's sea
even though it has a lot of access some
of the most in the world freezes over
besides in the Black Sea which again
still has the turkey she's still with
and besides in the Far Far East which
they again in both sides they put a lot
of effort into getting Crimea that's why
there's a and - you put in getting this
area in general that's why there's the
whole Crimean War not the current one
the one hundred over a hundred years ago
on and they put a lot of effort into
getting Vladivostok during the world
wars and yeah that the reason for that
is because you know the Navy was
becoming more important and Russia
despite having some of the most see in
the world could not have a Navy because
of how you know that that their place is
so far north you don't unnecessarily
anticipate that but yeah it freezes up
here which is a problem and you might
not realize that but that's why Russia's
like that so more facts about each other
country because I just want to mention
that Russia one of the things they did
used to own that they don't anymore is
Russian America or Alaska so Alaska is
actually a piece of territory that
Russia sold to America if it weren't for
Alaska then there would be obviously no
America north of the Arctic Circle
Russia sold a part of there you know so
if we go back to the market just for fun
the poverty in America which is north it
was you know sold to them by Russia so
if it weren't for that sale they
wouldn't be not fair but why did Russia
sell Alaska to America because so many
people mock this on a like on a daily
thing like oh yeah we boy up for like I
think it's eight million dollars or
something
and we're making that investment payback
but at the time it was like hugely
unpopular in America to buy Alaska it
was seen as like wasting money just
giving money to Russia and on the
Russian side of things they didn't want
it they really was sure because the
British were expanding in North America
at the time you can see how much
territory they ended up with but yeah
basically you know like Russia was sure
that eventually Britain would just take
their stuff and they wouldn't really be
able to defend it too well so they
figured sell it to America or lose it
it's the same thing with the Louisiana
Purchase like you know one of the hugest
purchases in American history they the
French sold it because they were sure it
would be taken eventually and they
needed the money for other things
same with Russia needed money had
territory they thought would be invaded
and that's why these deals make place
it's not it's not that some terrible
tactician and Russia was just like yeah
it was Russian America good for anyway
right it's it's that's not how these
things come about geopolitical interests
change a lot 150 years and that's why I
expect the optic will change a lot to
one Greenland is a country which is very
likely to eventually go independent it's
it's currently not sufficient in the
slightest because they have fishing and
not too much more as an industry most
their money has come from Denmark
however despite that they have a huge
nationalist movement and again they
really don't want to be a part of
Denmark so at some point it's likely
that they'll go independent again i
knows what that point is maybe the same
time Iceland leaves so we'll likely see
the power of balance shift but again
Green Line will never be a major power
just kind of like a huge Arctic player I
guess by itself and yeah it's also worth
noting that Canada all of its land that
is in the Arctic Circle is owned by
Canada as a whole not by any specific
province and it's also very very very
unpopulated again there are settlements
here like resolute like I mentioned
Polaris and my favorite one is a lot
this is the northernmost partly settled
place in the earth I want to say but
yeah a lot it's just a place where five
people live for Canadian military
purposes it's it's one the craziest like
this is what it looks like this is the
northernmost settlement it's a few
houses and I don't know when all that is
covered in snow and that's it so anyway
I could talk about the optical day I
love cold places I find them fascinating
like I said I've actually been to all of
the countries in the Arctic Circle but
I've never been
north of that circle like I think on
flights I've gone maybe potentially and
I'm not sure but I've never been to any
city
Northy optic circle so at some point I'm
gonna go to my I mean I've inter I mean
be very close but I'd love to go to
tromsø sometime I think that's the most
accessible Arctic City so that's the
thing though I think I'd recommend
because I've looked into a whole bunch
like it's always been on the list but
there's no flights from London director
there you have to go live I like Oslo
and I hate connecting flights in Europe
because they seem a bit of her I I don't
usually do connecting flights unless
there's like some fun reason to so yeah
anyway that's that's why Tromso is like
on the list and like I guess I'll show
you when I first go to the otic circle
but before I go though because I I want
to talk about the artisan more like I
said I like cold places could do it all
day but there's one big question that's
been on my mind so again I generally
speaking this is how I would find my
beliefs I like to look at evidence first
and then try and work out the faction
there a lot of people respond to my
Canada transport video by saying ah you
see as an ardent communist this is why
all of this is wrong I'm gonna try and
justify this really backwards Lee if
like or really we should form more money
into it and make it more expensive it's
like well but yes um I'm not that sole
person so here's a few things in the
Arctic I can't quite linked together so
every single country which has some to
its territory is generally very
left-leaning politically the one
exception to this is of course Alaska
Alaska is a red state in a very
conservative country of the US however
it's worth noting the Republicans in
Alaska aren't the same as the rest of
the country also worth noting that they
have the Alaskan Independence Party at
one point so politics in Alaska is very
very strange and also worth noting that
Alaska is one of the few places in the
world which has a ubi a universal basic
income and it's not phrased as a UPI
it's not like oh this is so you don't
have to work like in a lot of countries
that is it's just oh yeah you live in
Alaska and it's hard here so have a
bunch of money on us
I think it's paid for by all maybe well
maybe it's just one of those fascinating
things that like you know all of these
countries are quite left-leaning
Alaska's are maybe exception but it's
still not really Russia a few people
will say it's an exception but I mean
they literally have the Soviet
revolution you know one of the very few
countries on earth and even today where
Putin's and sure
and you can argue he's not left it's
like the second largest party in Russia
is the Communist Party if if Putin Falls
the Communists are taking over again you
know so you know there's like every
country is very left-leaning politically
speaking they're also very well-off
economically with Russia being the huge
exception although even then on a global
scale Russia does quite well all of the
countries even the ones about oil
because Norway has a bunch of oil of
course yeah right that's the easiest
thing but like you know Sweden Finland
Iceland Denmark Canada and America all
very very high income countries with the
Nordics being particularly high and then
the other thing is the fact that all of
these countries have very very poorly
developed north and a lot more territory
than most countries so the first largest
country is north the Arctic Circle the
second largest country also North the
third largest country also North
depending on how you want to measure
that China's not but it's the biggest
exception in the top four they're all
very large countries my fear that one
alone would be like okay they can easily
get their borders because if you claim
land in the Arctic that no one's claimed
before no one's gonna go there and
refute you because it's so cold and no
one what's the general ego that's
collected so Sweden Norway and Finland
much bigger than most Central European
countries Russia biggest country I mean
what more do I need to say about
Greenland Canada and America so yeah
lots of land lots of money left-leaning
politically I don't think necessarily
the hope you will be like a left-leaning
means make money right but they're
left-leaning in like the business
friendly way so it's not like a you know
your traditional Venezuelan dream or
whatever your actual dream is so there's
this like there's this whole thing of
like how do those things link together I
don't know for sure I I would love to
know your conclusions again please don't
do this thing where you're like here's
my political beliefs let me wrap my
facts around this because I see so much
of that let me know if you have a good
fear about that because it's one of
those things that I think about a lot
like trying to work it out and I don't
think I have an answer for you because
there are parts of the world where
they're very they have a lot of the same
features but they're not in the Arctic
again if you're left-leaning politically
in enough par of the world and you're
not in the Arctic Circle there's a lot
of countries doing horrific aliy from
that a lot of countries which have a lot
of land area in other parts of the world
you know I mean look in Algeria or the
DRC or whatever not great doing you know
because it's the similar thing so yeah
what do you
logic is let me know comments down below
but for now second channel don't care
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