It is not every day that I learn of a entire sizable island and culture that I did not know existed. This was a great topic

Not to mention the unique language of the island - Soqotri, which is as far from Arabic as Ge'ez is - and its rich heritage of oral literature. The language's use is falling away. There are efforts underway to preserve it - esp through the use of poetry, which long has been an important part of Soqotri culture - but the efforts are few...

I didn't know Sam can talk without telling a joke every 20 seconds.

Nice video! Congratulations on the new channel! I want to mention that the Arabic language on the island isn't quite correct because Adobe AE only recognizes left to right languages by default. If you want to write dual language (Arabic and English) you need to activate the (South Asian and Middle Eastern) option in settings.

I love that this show is back

Great video. Just a note: the Arabic text on the map of Socotra is backwards and the letters are separated, when they should be connected. Happens a lot with some typesetters.

Living in UAE, I have never heard of this island. Glad this show is back

13:30 "They control the overseas", by which he means they control the seas and maritime access to the island, not "they control the offices", as it is captioned.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how Sam never uses clickbait unlike almost every other KZfaqr but instead delivers quality videos?

Dear Sam: I’ve been an avid follower of yours for quite a bit, and the quality of your videos has just gotten to a point where they’re documentaries on some of the most interesting topics one can find. I love this new channel, it’s so human, it brings these obscure realities close to us and teaches so much.

these mini-documentaries are keeping me entertained and educated at the same time! i’m so proud of this expansion from Wendover Productions…what a interesting story and island. ☺️🙏

I am visiting Socotra in February and am excited to see the place before it’s inevitable development. My contact there shared the same concerns about the massive amount of development going on around the port region and outside of the capital. To put it into perspective though, there’s still no major accommodation outside of the capital so we’ll be camping for all but one day.

I'm a botanist and owner of a cactus & succulent nursery. This island is one of the top places I want to visit and has been for years as the plant life there is truly unique. Guess I should get there in the next several years before it gets overrun unfortunately.

The ecosystem seems something straight out of a Alien Planet. Trees that look like mushrooms, birds with emerald green eyes, coral reefs. I just hope war and modernization around earning $ doesn't win over the Heritage site.

In the 1970's I flew US Navy reconnaissance missions between Diego Garcia, BIOT and Bandar Abbas, Iran, monitoring Soviet Naval activity off Socotra, of geopolitical interest even back then.

Can you do Georgia and the south sandwich islands? Or the Falklands?

Incredible, Sam and team! I am so happy to have extremities back! (also this channel has always been a huge inspiration for me in pursuing documentaries, especially since Sam started during high school)

New channel, new story!

Interestingly, I was looking through maps of the oceans and found this little blob off the coast of Yemen.. and bam. A month later. This is truly a paradise waiting to be explored.

How could you not want to stay in the capital when visiting a place like Socotra? So what the beach trip becomes a day long affair at least the biosphere is retained.

I was just about to go do something productive, guess it will have to wait another hour

Correction: it was given back to the yemeni government in 2018

Thank you for the video and congratulations on the new channel! Looking forward to more in-depth stories!

Love your high quality work! Thrilled this is on KZfaq.

Commenting to help the algorithm. This is the content I like to see.

Such an amazing piece! I love the interviews with locals, generous footage, as well as ecological and geopolitical contexts. The beautiful watercolor graphics/animation complement your unique subject perfectly. So different from Wendover, but same high quality!!! 💜🌍🌄🌳✌️😎🍀

Welcome back. Like Hachiko, we've been patiently waiting. Love the excellent animation in these.

This new channel is amazing, I love your work!!

you have no idea how much i have missed extremities

Can you add subtitles here like on the maim channel? I rely on them to keep up with the info

So excited for the channel! Gonna go back and check out the podcast as well. I remember extremities being announced a few years back, but I wasn't in to podcasting at the time so it was really off my radar. Now, it seems like the perfect show for me.

Phenomenal channel. Looking forward to more content!!

I would have loved to go but Socotra, even before the civil war, has always been difficult for people to travel to. It's one of those places where, if you're not from the adjacent areas, you need to have money to get to.

Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.

Thank you! Very informative, and lovely to see Adnan. He will be my guide when I visit next month.

i’d love more of this!

The excellent photographer Daniel Kordan visited the island recently and took amazing images of the landscape and trees. Truly special place. So it is possible to get there, even now. Would be amazing to visit although I doubt I ever will . . .

I did it! I finally did it! Got myself the CuriosityStream & Nebula Bundle!

Bravo on presenting some brave and very balanced information here - this is a really exciting direction to take the channel in. Dealing with not just isolation as an extremity but also geopolitical pressures and the burden of preserving valuable natural resources as well - what a great and to me previously unknown extremity.

Thank you for the informative video!

I can't be the only one thinking that shifting the island's administration from poor, unstable Yemen to rich, (more) stable UAE is a good thing to preserve the island long-term. UNESCO & co would probably be able to work with a government that has far more resources and motives to care about Socotra's development than under Yemen now.

The US also blockades medical supply trade to Yemen and Iran, which is a literal war crime. Also the US invaded both Afghanistan and Iraq, greatly increasing regional instability in the region, adversely affecting civilians throughout the area. Even the European and Asian continents were adversely affected by the ensuing refugee crisis. The US must enable at minimum medicinal trade and re-enter the Iran deal that the US broke.

Great new channel, solid content.

Thank you - a very comprehensive view on Sokotra's history and present. Just came back, Adnan was our group's guide - much appreciated!

Such a beautiful Island. Ruined by UAE.

Isn't that the island you need to conquer when you try to bring Nestorianism back?

And I though I had a pretty enlarge Geography knowledge, until you brought up Socotra, an Island I had never heard of. Thank you

tHIS is amazing . THanks

Thanks a lot Sam.

Make a video on Cerro Gorto ghostown, once the biggest silvermine of California. Today a man is trying to renovate it, and posts about this on KZfaq. It's called Ghost town living.

This channel is amazing

Excellent service! Thank you....

its weird hearing Sam's voice but seeing a logo thats not Wendover Productions

why notifications are turned off for this channel?

Another great one! I wish I’d gone in 2009 when I had the chance. Still kicking myself for that

Great content!

Wait a second, there's nothing about bricks here....

Dr Andreas Krieg from the School of Security of King's College London on the UAE's strategy on Socotra: "This is a typical Emirati subversion approach in Socotra, trying to exploit grievances of local communities to buy influence through hearts and minds...since 2015, this subversion in Socotra is about Abu Dhabi's Horn of Africa policy." (C) MEMO 2021

My goodness but this is some amazing footage.

Great video!

They work 3h a day? Wholly moly, where do I sign up?

The dragons Blood tree is also endemic of the Canary Islands, Cape Verde and parts of the morrocan coasts. As usual, very good video, but, like showing clips from reindeers in kerguelen (where there are no reindeers), this little details throw a little bit of people like me because it's not so difficult to get It exact. As always, excellent video, but always check sources.

The Socotras might be a largely forgotten archipelago nowadays - but those had a lot higher significance earlier, especially in ancient times -> as I recall from my studies, in the 2nd century BE Rome had even established an outpost - since the islands were on the route between Roman Egypt and India. All in all I hope for peace 1st of all, then that they will manage to find balance between modern society/economy and preserving nature as it is ...

Wonderful video. I really want to travel there so bad. However…. we do have those dragon trees in the canary islands!!!!

Wohoooo! New Channel!!!

love it!

Brilliant video - really fascinating and very sad. Thannk you.

Great video! But i think you got the Arabic transliteration of Socotra backwards, like it reads artkos

Beautiful island ,. Thank you

Yessirrr new channel by mister Sam!!!!!

Well now we have another channel to watch

Socatra ppl are yemeni ppl UAE wants to occupy the yemeni island

one of my wish list destinations :)

Only found out about this island recently because of a Yemeni archaeologist who has traveled there. Fascinating place.

سقطرى ستبقى يمنية و الله لايرضا بالظلم

Fun fact: UAE Offered to give the Island to Somalia in exchange for joining the civil war in Yemen but was refused.

Awesome video! Just a correction at 3:12, the Arabic script is inverted (left to right, should be right to left), it should be سقطرىٰ‎

Hai wendover and extremities 🔥🔥

Between the war and covid I don't really imagine alot of folk are visiting rn. But it's a beautiful place. I really don't want to see building on there because hotels n stuff will definitely Fk up the rare plants/life permently.

Socatra islande yemen 🇾🇪

Love it!

hey sam, did u draw the paintings in this vid? cus if u did, then im impressed, oh and i also watch ur other channels, wendover and half s interesting.

3:18 - I believe arabic inscriptions must be re-created in the video: they are written left-to-right, although correct way is right-to-left. 2:39 - please also fix: Homo Sapiens (there must me an "s" at the end of the 2nd word).

what's the difference between sam from wendover and a genderfluid ted talk speaker? one's the half as interesting guy, and the other's an interesting half guy

Thanks Sam love it!! Do you have a link to the Curiosity Stream and Nebula bundle deal?

this has been my dream for years... too bad it is next to impossible to get there now...

Socotra is a Yemeni island

So, the Little Bay Islands video that was uploaded to the Wendover Productions channel was uploaded as a 21:9 video. Meaning that, for the people with 21:9 phones and monitors, the video filled the screen, while for those with 16:9 phones and monitors, the cinematic black bars are introduced to the top and bottom of the video. The fact that KZfaq can natively, properly handle 21:9 is great, but it is little known, so I was excited to see you upload a 21:9 edited video IN 21:9 aspect ratio, making use of it. However, all three uploads here, *including the upload of the Little Bay Islands video*, are 16:9. This reduces resolution by wasting the pixels that are outside the videos 21:9 content, but inside the 16:9 file uploaded. It also means black bars on all four sides of a disappointingly small display window. Two Questions: Why are the videos on the channel not being uploaded in 21:9, if they're being edited in 21:9? Will the channel start uploading in 21:9 because they're being edited in 21:9?

Such a different video from sam but I love the 3 videos out already

Can you still publish this on spotify as a podcast?

Socotra is hidden gem and Is an iceland of african continent

As a Yemeni, it saddens me that the Archipelagos of Socotra is being occupied by the UAE, just because they have oil money. They've also taken over Mayoon Island and built a military base, according to Reuters. This reminds me of Russia annexing the Crimea from the Ukraine and nobody did anything.

How does Sam edit his voice? Today I saw his irl videos and have been amazed since.

I love hearing Future of Forestry music in this video!

Whaaaat! I never knew UAE stole socotra from Yemen 🙆🏼‍♂️😬😬

Socotra is UAE now?? How have I missed this?..

Ideas for future episodes: Svalbard, Novaya Zemlya, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, Tristan De Cunha, Chagos Islands, Wake Island, Midway, Acension Island, Sakhalin Island, Norfolk Island

You can tell the lady really loves her job and believes her views strongly. I respect that

Soqatara, actually belongs to Somalia.

Came for the bricks Stayed for the 9:1 aspect ratio