Norway's Most Elusive Arctic Island | Hopen

In the far Arctic north, there's a long, thin island, miles from anywhere. It looks barren on the map with not a single Street View image, but zoom in and you'll find scattered driftwood huts and a mysterious cluster of buildings. In this video, we'll piece together its story. Old hunting logs, forgotten expedition reports, buried Norwegian newspaper articles! We'll look at survival tales from stranded shipwrecked sailors, a Cold War cover-up that nearly brought Norway & the Soviet Union to war, & much more. Support:   / earthloreworld   https://ko-fi.com/earthlore (YouTube membership & Super Thanks are also options) 00:00 Intro 01:11 Google Earth flyover 02:19 Anyone here before Europeans? 03:11 Who saw it first? 05:13 The Dutch discovery 06:23 The English discovery 08:14 Norwegian hunters 09:32 The legend of the Polar Bear King 11:36 New huts, forgotten expedition 12:22 Mapping the island 13:45 The Dutchman left to die 14:55 Treaty, trappers, harsh winters 16:08 The Dekabrist shipwreck 19:25 WW2 Germans on Hopen 20:07 The 1950s overwintering & Gunnar Larsen's diary 28:01 Later crews & tragedies 29:41 Oil drilling & new protections 30:44 A Soviet bomber crashes 34:48 80s and 90s 36:48 Hopen Meteo 38:03 Outro Videos & Links:    • Havaristedet på Hopen      • Tysk depot på Hopen      • Mingming II arrives at the Arctic island H...   https://www.bstur.no/2023/02/12/johsh... https://www.jankrogh.com/kystradio/lm... https://hopen201011.blogspot.com/ https://kopenpaahopen.blogspot.com/ https://hopen2010.blogspot.com/ https://tv.nrk.no/program/FTRO00004387 https://tv.nrk.no/serie/svalbard-1964... https://hopenmeteo.no Sources: Wikipedia: Hopen, History of Svalbard, Cantino Planisphere, Het Behouden Huys, William Barents, Thor Iversen, Henry Rudi https://hopenmeteo.no https://www.worldhistory.org/article/... https://www.spitsbergen-svalbard.com/... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://nordregio.org/maps/indigenous... Icelandic Annals: https://books.google.es/books?id=LFnU... Landnámabók: https://archive.org/details/landnamab... Willem Barentsz voyages: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/64257... https://www.spitsbergen-svalbard.com/... https://svalbardmuseum.no/en/whaling https://cruise-handbook.npolar.no/en/... No Man’s Land, Sir Martin Conway: https://ia801304.us.archive.org/10/it... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://polarhistorie.no/steder/hopen/ https://njg.geologi.no/images/NJG_art... https://polarhistorie.no/personer/hen... https://www.itromso.no/nyheter/n/JEj6... https://snl.no/Henry_Rudi https://polarhistorie.no/artikler/jak... https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/n... https://www.klikk.no/friluftsliv/jakt... Thor Iversen's book: https://www.nb.no/maken/item/URN:NBN:... https://www.littlenorway.org.uk/ivers... Norsk overvintringsfangst på Svalbard 1895-1940: https://nva.sikt.no/registration/0199... https://www.verenigingwalhalla.nl/wal... https://www.miljovernfondet.no/wp-con... https://polf.copernicus.org/articles/... https://www.spitsbergen-svalbard.com/... Hopen history list: https://hopenmeteo.no/?page_id=21 https://njg.geologi.no/images/NJG_art... https://polarbearagreement.org/about-... https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/iska... https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash... https://www.sysselmesteren.no/content... https://www.sysselmesteren.no/content... Gunnar Larsen’s diary: https://nva.sikt.no/registration/0199... https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MM... https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=dd... https://www.hi.no/resources/Ishavsoya...