Canada Is Hiding Something Nobody Talks About

Canada Is Hiding Something Nobody Talks About There's a waterfall in Canada that has moved eleven kilometres from the place where it started. There's a ring in the ground, seventy-two kilometres across, that astronauts pick out from orbit. And in 2016, two out of every three Canadians were living on four percent of the land. Canada looks like the country with room to spare: the second-largest on Earth, with the longest coastline and more lakes than anyone has counted. Then half of it turns out to be bare rock, a lake the size of a sea turns out to be missing, a river comes up over its own flat floor, and the ground around Hudson Bay turns out to be still rising. Thirty facts, counting down, and by number one you'll see why most of them trace back to one thing that happened to Canada, and still isn't finished. Hidden Earth encyclopedias (Places, Cities, Animals): https://hiddenearth.shop Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:31 #30 The empty giant 1:32 #29 The longest coastline 2:15 #28 Two million lakes 2:54 #27 No road in 3:39 #26 The last address north 4:16 #25 Minus sixty-three 4:53 #24 Hills made of ice 5:36 #23 The river that runs north 6:23 #22 The pole that left 7:09 #21 The highest tides 7:44 #20 Half a country of bare rock 8:32 #19 Four billion years 9:20 #18 The crater that pays 10:01 #17 The Eye of Quebec 10:45 #16 Diamonds in the floor 11:25 #15 A line of giant lakes 12:19 #14 The waterfall that walked 13:04 #13 The lake that isn't there 13:53 #12 The flood of the century 14:42 #11 Three oceans from one summit 15:39 #10 Four kilometres of ice 16:21 #9 Scraped and dropped 17:04 #8 The sea that reached Ottawa 18:01 #7 The ground that turned to liquid 18:44 #6 The last piece 19:29 #5 The land is still rising 20:12 #4 Where the soil went 20:54 #3 Where the people went 21:38 #2 A new map on old rock 22:17 #1 The floor the ice swept 23:30 Recap If you were in Winnipeg in the spring of 1997, when the Red River came up, tell me in the comments what you remember. And if you grew up on the Shield, or you've served a posting at Alert, I want that story too. Subscribe to Under the Atlas for more places that are hiding something. Sources The Canadian Encyclopedia; Statistics Canada; NASA Earth Observatory; NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information; NOAA; American Geophysical Union. Full source list available on request. Credits Satellite imagery: Sentinel-2 cloudless - https://s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. Blue Marble imagery: NASA Earth Observatory / NASA GIBS (public domain). Map data: Natural Earth (public domain). Elevation: Terrain Tiles by Mapzen/Tilezen (SRTM, USGS 3DEP, GMTED2010, ETOPO1). Stock footage and photos: Pexels (Pexels License). Historical and scientific images: public domain, CC0 or no known restrictions, via NASA (Earth Observatory, Johnson Space Center, Goddard, JPL), FEMA, the U.S. Geological Survey and Wikimedia Commons. CC-licensed photos (via Wikimedia Commons; crops and grades are ours): Acoteleg (CC BY-SA 4.0); Adam Jones (CC BY-SA 2.0); dvs from Vermont, USA (CC BY 2.0); James St. John (CC BY 2.0); Jean-Marie Brochu (CC BY-SA 4.0); Kevin Rawlings (CC BY-SA 4.0); Matti&Keti (CC BY-SA 4.0); Mike Beauregard from Nunavut, Canada (CC BY 2.0). Music: "Atmosphere Background Documentary" by HybridWave (Envato Elements, licensed). #Canada #Geography #UnderTheAtlas