Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
For my latest video I got on a zoom call with Cody from AlternateHistoryHub to ask him about the lost islands we looked at in the video. While I included what I think were the highlights from our conversation, there was also much more we discussed that didn't make the final cut. Feel free to listen and share your thoughts on what could have become of these islands had they made it into the modern day.
Also for a fun time, try counting how many times Cody and I say the phrase "you know," and see if you can figure out who said it more.
0:00 - 19:30 Doggerland
19:31 - 29:30 Dogger Island
29:31 - 36:00 Grand Bank
36:01 - 43:30 Georges Bank
43:31 - 54:00 Santa Rosae
54:01 - 1:06:30 Mascarene Plateau
For my latest video I got on a zoom call with Cody from AlternateHistoryHub to ask him about the lost islands we looked at in the video. While I included what I think were the highlights from our conversation, there was also much more we discussed that didn't make the final cut. Feel free to listen and share your thoughts on what could have become of these islands had they made it into the modern day.
Also for a fun time, try counting how many times Cody and I say the phrase "you know," and see if you can figure out who said it more.
0:00 - 19:30 Doggerland
19:31 - 29:30 Dogger Island
29:31 - 36:00 Grand Bank
36:01 - 43:30 Georges Bank
43:31 - 54:00 Santa Rosae
54:01 - 1:06:30 Mascarene Plateau

![Even MORE Islands That Arent Islands
Today we take another look at isolated environments to learn how islands can arise even when surrounded by vast seas of desert!
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Sierra de la Laguna
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https://en.unesco.org/biosphere/lac/sierra-la-laguna
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https://tosea.net/the-sierra-de-la-laguna-biosphere-reserve-bajas-island-in-the-sky/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41424739
https://bashanfoundation.org/contributions/Ortega-A/ortegaoakpine.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mbi-Honey-Escandon/publication/230709948_Phylogeographic_patterns_of_differentiation_in_the_Acorn_Woodpecker/links/563273e608ae242468d9f817/Phylogeographic-patterns-of-differentiation-in-the-Acorn-Woodpecker.pdf
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https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Distribution-of-forest-types-in-the-Sierra-de-la-Laguna-Biosphere-Reserve-in-the-southern_fig1_237151825
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https://lacgeo.com/sierra-laguna-biosphere-reserve
https://www.oneearth.org/ecoregions/sierra-de-la-laguna-dry-forests/
McMurdo Valleys
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00248-013-0296-y
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/3/3/466
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https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Diatom-species-confirmed-from-the-McMurdo-Dry-Valleys-authorship-and-year-and_tbl1_237448827
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https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/13/10/506
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/14/3/606
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https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-Distribution-of-springtail-species-shown-as-coloured-dots-with-ellipses-indicating_fig1_369438305
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Onyx-river-flowing-westward-between-the-Asgaard-and-Olympus-Ranges-from-the_fig2_276158257
https://environments.aq/publications/diversity-of-antarctic-lakes-ponds-and-streams/
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