Swear we see some variety of this video once a year from Toycat but not complaining

I can listen to you for 10 hours without getting bored.

250k subscriber special should be a vlog to the french southern Antarctic islands

You should make a crazy alternative history/geography video looking at the geography consequences of very unlikely things that might have happened like that time Russia tried to sell Alaska to Liechtenstein before they eventually sold it to USA. Edit: If this had happened Liechtenstein with a European land area of 160 square km would have climb from number 190 of 195 in the country ranking to number 17 with a total land area of 1,723,497 square km. USA would have dropped from number 3 to 5.

Obviously, it's been named Le Tampon because the place gets monthly floods. Jokes aside, in my opinion it probably directly translate to "The Buffer" as in some kind of transitional area

If you're going to Vancouver, how about a collab with J.J. MCCullough? Also we do expect a video on how Le Tampon, Reunion got its name.

I love the fact one of my favourite people in the internet also has 2 channels dedicated to stuff I love: minecraft, and geography

Wrong. Looking at my dating life it is apparently my bedroom.

I love toycat just randomly finding some Timfoolery

6:15 as a Hello Internet listener, I feel extremely complete. I love this.

11:30 Toycat's brain short circuits at just the sight of the word "McDonald" in Antarctic

I was just in Vancouver! We visited family over the holidays for the first time in 2 years. I live in Newfoundland and it's a stupidly long and expensive trip to make for a Canadian. We need Europe's air traffic system.

I'm from Sweden and we have so many Coops. They're actually expending, buying up other food chains such as Netto and Prix in the last few years. Which is good foor me, I guess, since I'm a member of coop and my father's been a member since the 1970s, when it was still called Konsum (which i guess comes from the word "consume" lol)

We have those Coop stores in Slovakia as well, literally in every village. They are called Coop-Jednota, which means unity, and I suppose it stems from the socialism times.

I love your videos. Had to pause at 6 minutes to spend 20 minutes reading about the history of Antarctica, onto the history of satellite imaging. You inspire the brain, Mr Toycat. Keep it up

I love this channel so much, this channel's videos are so entertaining no matter how long the length of videos are.

Antarctica is the only continent my wife and I have not been to, so we've looked into those cruises, and even those are expensive and a pain to get on.

Damn, toycat pumping out videos like crazy these days. Keep it up, I love it :D

Kerguelen Island needs a 2,600 metre runway just east of Port-aux-Francais to support scientific work and as an emergency airstrip of airliners to keep them within an ETOPS max of 3 hours (twin engine aircraft running on one engine in an emergency). Some large twins have not survived 1 hour on a single engine after bad engine failure in the other despite an ETOPS rating of 6 hours. So countries with an interest in the southern hemisphere should be supporting more airstrips for airline safety as distinct from more air services to remote locations.

Thanks for the 3000 BC travel recommendation! My wife died from measles there, I couldn't find drinking water free of feces for a week, and now have an iron deficiency but other than that it was amazing!

18:20 in the US, there are “co-ops” which are more employee-focused stores that treat their workers good

I love it. What is this place called Le Tampon. Let's investigate... oh wait ... tangent. LOL

Looking forward to the COOP video (as a person who has a version of COOP in his country 😉). Also yes, I would like to go to Sydney.

man, i can't describe how interesting your videos are. I know you jump from one subject to another but it makes me more concentrated

Thank you for using captions! I very much appreciate it!

What is the smallest mountain that can be climbed but hasn't?

Co-Op in Canada is a store than you can find in pretty much every town, but it is especially iconic in small towns as it is the only grocery store in many remote, small towns

Something I’ve always found funny with Kerguelen is the archipelago has a Breton name, but thousands of miles from Brittany (where I live) and its surrounding islands.

Along all your co-op branded supermarkets. There's also things like S-market and prisma(S-group) in Finland which is also a co-op and are probably the largest supermarket chain in Finland.

I'd love to know what the most remote McDonald's in the world is though. Fastest answer is the one at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (yes, *that* Gitmo) - but with the right orders someone could eat lunch there and dinner in Washington, D.C or vice versa. Remotest McD's open to the general public, then.

My mom used to work at a nursing station by Le Crête! Hello from Northern Alberta!! Its so nice to get some recognition! Also we have a crap ton of oil nearby. Third largest reserves in the world. So it might not be so barren for long.

Dr. Brady "Hard as Nail" Haran just makes me miss the Hello Internet podcast even more

it's so weird that i was thinking about this yesterday, and then toycat uploads a video about it

Toycat should make a podcast or at least some longer videos because it’s a shame that he doesn’t go down off-topic rabbit holes

Fun fact: The "Southern Ocean" wasn't it's own ocean when I was in school. Apparantly, it became known as a distinct ocean in 2000, which is after I graduated from High School. Yes, I'm old and female, too, so I guess I'm an outlier in terms of channel stats. I'm 41, BTW.

pls never stop ur end of vid tangents i luv them

When you live far from a city, you basically need to plan ahead for your meals significantly more. The more remote, the more planning you need. If you're living in the far north near the arctic circle, you might need to have 6 months worth of supplies and plans, for instance. When I lived 100 miles from a minor city, we would have 2-4 weeks worth of food, and do a couple of big shopping trips per month. In both cases, you might need to do canned vegetables and grow some of your own food if you want something that isn't preserved. Most people can't plan that far ahead.

Cheers from Vancouver! Hope you have a great time when you're here.

In Norway we have coop extra, coop prix, coop bygg(build) etc. its one of the most prevalent stores here, with many different types

You should make a video about the weirdest city names. I came across a city in New Foundland and Labrador called "Robert's Arm" and another one a few miles away called "Joe Batt's Arm"

If you follow Interstate 89 from Burlington, Vermont past Montpelier to Lebanon, New Hampshire you'll have driven just about two hours, possibly still with a Burlington radio station coming in, and THREE entirely separate co-ops. (City Market/Onion River in Burlington, Hunger Mountain in Montpelier and Dartmouth Co-op in Lebanon). It's at the point that the association of grocery cooperatives in America invented a new brand for their private label (Field Day) since they don't have a single wordmark for "Co-op" to appear as.

I love how he always has so much energy

Nice. I loved Vancouver. Except the Stairways in Parking Garages. I like the tangents you go off topic from. I like my visit to Sydney, although that was a few years before this so called pandemic. The OmIcron version is reeking havoc right now there.

Your passion and energy is so infectious, I almost want to care about Minecraft. Almost. LOVE this 2nd channel!

I heard somewhere that the Pitcairn islands were pretty remote or at least hard to get to from Europe or somewhere similar.

The one that always fascinates me, is places where plenty of people live, but are almost impossible to get to from the rest of the world. Places like Tristan da Cunha in the south Atlantic where 250 people live in near total isolation, or North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean, where the few hundred inhabitants are known to kill any outsider who tries to approach the island. Your discussion of living remotely in Siberia made me think of the Lykov family, who have lived in near total isolation for over 80 years. There is just one family member surviving today.

🇳🇴 Bouvet Island, world's most remote island, 1,700 km north of 🇳🇴 Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, 2,547 km east of 🇬🇧 South Sandwich Islands, 1,852 km south of 🇬🇧 Gough Island, Tristan da Cunha, 2,563 km southwest of 🇿🇦 Cape Town, South Africa and 2,543 km west of 🇿🇦 Prince Edward Islands.

Wise insights from toycat: "Unexplored places don't have direct flights." (paraphrasing bc it's been several minutes in the video since he said it and I couldn't type then bc it's raining on my phone)

18:15 Italy has coop supermarket too

I so love your videos.

Vancouver is such a beautiful place. Would love to see a scooter video there

More than 100k population (big city) - Honolulu Australia and New Zealand are too. Tristan de Cuhna, Point Nemo, Bouvet Island

Thanks for the vid, you do rly interesting analytics. I don`t understand everything bcs i just teaching english, but it`s anyway interesting, thank you!

LATAM has operated regular weekly flights from São Paulo to Falkland Islands since 2019. Although they were grounded due to COVID-19, they are expected to resume in a few weeks.

Greetings from Quito, Ecuador 🇪🇨 man hope you book that flight ✋

Where I live in America a Co-op is not a grocery store, but a store for cattle and other farm related products like fertilizer and feed.

A tiny bit north east from Heard Island and Macdonald’s islands the small land mass is named shag island

I also want to resettle in somewhere far from any population center or even in the middle of wasteland as long as it's somewhere I can grow something. But the cost of living is skyrocket the further you live away from city or town. It's nice to live there as almost nobody will bother with me if I build my house on those area, but so are market, supermarket, home center, logistic agency, food stall, restaurant, or any kind of specialized shop. It will cost so much money just to get something I must use everyday to where I live. And before that, you need to transport building material for your house in order to build a house in the middle of nowhere and that cost a hell lot (but from your tone you make it feel like it's cheap to build a house where no one lives and it's expensive in major city, only land itself in major cities is expensive). Even though it's like that, I'm very interested in moving to random area in Siberia or Nunavut like what you've pointed out. I still don't know what to do for the living when I get there, though.

I love your tangents please feel free to explore them! Though its true sometimes things are best left to explore later

I go to my local Coop (I live in small town in Czechia) regularly, but I'm not satisfied with their prices and quality/sortiment of food. I'm lactose intolerant, but they don't have any dairy alternatives or quality ripened cheeses. They just have low-quality czech substitutes of foreign cheeses. In general, Czechs have the lowest quality of food in all Europe. We are trash can of the world.

I looked up real estate in La Crete. It's not so cheap. Houses go for $300-500K. It's also a boom town, the population has increased 11 fold in the last 45 years.

I just wanna say, average house prices in Vancouver at 1.5 mil in Canadabucks And apartments in a good area are like 1500 a month

You should visit me in hay river NWT Canada. Only short couple flights away from Vancouver. Fun fact we used to travel to LA Crete for basketball games.

At least before covid, and still now to my knowledge, there are actually in fact regularly scheduled flights to RAF Mount Pleasant on the Falkland Islands in addition to the AirTanker service (which is not actually a military plane, just used by the military for refueling actual military planes!). The regularly scheduled flights are operated by LATAM and go to Santiago, Punta Arenas, and according to wikipedia, even to Sao Paolo seasonally!

@toycat when are you going to vancouver? i live here. itd be a pleasure to meet you

You touch upon a really interesting question I ponder. Have I stepped someplace no one else ever did. I grew up in very rural eastern United States and hiked extensively. But even still, it's pretty much all been logged. But there's cliffs I climbed and hit a ledge here and there. And if someone stepped in every spot, when was the last time?

Not a single mention of Bouvet island? Kerguelen being covered was interesting though, but it does have some tourism, unlike Bouvet, I think, which makes it easier to reach.

I live for the sphere you make with your hands when you say "the world and stuff"

There is talk about implementing a hypersonic passenger service. The ship would lift off and technically go into space and reenter at your destination. Any place on Earth would be only maximum of a couple of hours away.

In Ireland our co op is a farm/work/material shop

the Netherlands has a coop but I think it's being bought out by another supermarket chain called Plus

Most deserted? Well, I’m assuming land, but my choice would either be random unincorporated US islands in the pacific, or Bouvet island.

As a Canadian when you said $500,000 for that apartment I actually laughed. You can’t buy property in Vancouver for under $750,000 and most “desirable” places to live are over $1,000,000

We have one called IGA (independent grossers Australia) which sounds like the same concept.

I was watching the grand tour on prime and they claimed that paris to reunion is the longest internal flight

Please include sources for maps on these, I like geography and the world and stuff, but often can't find the ones in your videos.

How you managed to resist derailing the whole video to investigate *"Le Tampon"* is beyond me... I didn't have the strength... Apparently it was the base for a notorious murder & "sorcerer," and comes from the term "tampony" (which means belvedere/building/part of a building?) & also is a popular tourist place with lots of palm trees 🤣

My local Coop was voted best supermarket in Sweden. So that's nice.

Burma is a real country the leaders said you can use Myanmar and Burma interchangeably

That's cool, but what about the longest time to travel between the closest located places?

When are you coming to Vancouver? We should meet up.

8:40 The school I went to actually even has an exchange program with la reunion. (not even French btw, i''m from Germany)

I don't know exactly what this video is, but I greatly enjoyed it.

we need ibx2cat merch, I'd buy it.

I want to go to Auckland. Check out Pitcairn island, interesting story

I do want to go to Sydney!

u made a point about how going to the Falkland Island takes a military flight. Could u make a video or a short or something ab that please.

Wow, so weird that many places are named coop/Co-op because they are most probably cooperative enterprises...

Hint: copy the URL into Google translate and there will be a link button. That will take you to the site and translate it.

Didnt expect my lovely hometown Le Tampon to get so much attention here 😂🇷🇪

I bet Pacific islanders/Asians have successfully travelled to and from Antarctica thousands if not tens of thousands of years ago just like how New Zealand, Easter Island all of the Americas were founded long before any European Colonizers could even make a boat (except the Viking, which were well more advanced than Columbus).

I love geography and Minecraft can you make a discord server to post interesting stuff that would be awesome, also i subbed

Toycat fun fact I watched this channel for nearly 2 years until I realized you are a Minecraft KZfaqr

Where I live in the US, a COOP was usually a feed store (food for farm animals). But when I see the word COOP, I think of a chicken COOP.

U should collab with JJ McCullough in Vancouver!! Btw, some of ur best videos are when u go off on a tangent

5:04 that's a new video idea

These days, if you want to go to cities in china, that will require 21+ days lol

6:08 That's good Timage

Hey toycat, love your video from Kolkata, India. Probably most underrated megacity in the world :( Make a video about megacities around the world.

Actually it's not hard to define the ocean's borders cause the difference in water density which makes it impossible to mix them literally draws the line between two big oceans