I'm surprised you never mentioned the fact that a British guy stayed on that rock for a certain length of time in order to enhance the claim on the rock ! Probably in the 80's

Not a soul: UK: “hey wanna see my rock collection??”

YES HE MENTIONED FAROE ISLANDS FINALLY WE HAVE BEEN NOTICED

Prime minister: your majesty we’ve lost all our overseas territories! Queen Elizabeth: well at least I didn’t forget my facebook password

Britain: it’s not just a boulder. It’s a rock.

1919: The British have the largest empire in history 2019: The British have a rock

1925: UK gets Iraq 1955: UK gets a rock

“Loosing a whole world’s worth of territory has got to be rough, but what even worse is loosing is your password.“ 🤣🤣 Best segue to a sponsor EVAR

Well lads, we might have lost America. But at least we have our rock

Britain is that Monopoly board game player that just buys anything they land on in the first turn.

"...the immortal Queen Elizabeth"... Well, not anymore...

"The UK are experts at losing territory." I actually laughed.

I demand all distances be given in light years

*Plot Twist:* Spongebob drives the Rock and he didn't know where he parked.

'the immortal queen elizabeth'😞

My whole life I’ve been calling it “Rockfall” I’ve read it dozens of times. I literally have a map of the UK in my room and it shows Rockall and yet I’ve never noticed.

The passive aggression in this video is overwhelming.

Its fine though, *the UK are experts at losing territory*

That rock is inhabitable? That would be the perfect place to live. Away from everyone's bullshit.

Question: Where is Rockall? Answer: It's 230 miles west of Bugger All.

The *actual* plaque said this: By authority of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, and in accordance with Her Majesty's instructions dated the 14th day of September, 1955, a landing was effected this day upon this island of Rockall from HMS Vidal. The Union flag was hoisted and possession of the island was taken in the name of Her Majesty. [Signed] R H Connell, Captain, HMS Vidal, 18 September 1955.

They called it Rockall cause there's fockall there

3:43 coughs “China”. Man you are by far the best KZfaqr ever. I like these tiny references.

Stood on Rockall for about 20 seconds back in 1984 while serving on HMS Dumbarton Castle during fishery protection duties.

"Ello m8 this island is the property of the british empire deal with it lol signed the queen"

Inb4 someone calls be a yankee and yells at me for calling St Kilda terrible, putting the Scottish flag in the thumbnail instead of the Union Jack, and having the music too loud.

'The immortal Queen Elizabeth', not so sure anymore

“The immortal queen elizabeth” jeez i cant believe hai was wrong

Loki: We have a Hulk Britain: We have a rock.

The world: the uk should give back it’s colony’s Uk: *gives back colony’s* The world: omg you guys are so bad at keeping land LOL😂😂😂😂😂 ksjksjksj

"The immortal Queen Elisabeth..." Oops

the immortal queen Elizabeth 😂that aged well

Rockall + Gibraltar = that moment you realize the UK has a weird thing for rocks

The UK wants this Island the same reason why the US has a bunch of tiny uninhabited islands in the Pacific. Because it greatly expands their Exclusive Economic Zone.

1:28 bruh this hits different now 💀

"While Dashlane can't help prevent the dismantling of your empire, it can help you keep your passwords." 🤣🤣🤣 -My King, there's an uprising in the American Colonies! Should I send an army? -Wait, let me download Dashlane before that, it may help us...

Piece of land: *exists* UK: Allow us to introduce ourselves Edit: Holy Shit, Thanks for 1k likes guys!

That epic moment when The Rock and Dwayne Johnson finally met.

1855: "I claim this entire continent in the name of her majesty! Rule Britannia! God save the queen!" 1955: "Dis rock, can I haz?"

Build a LIGHTHOUSE on it! Plymouth did it: Land's end Did it: Inchcape did it! Now Rockall must do it! Who will put in a BID?

*_While England is already a city, the Rock is my country._*

Rockall is closer to Scotland than Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico is to the US...

This rock is part of Ireland, for it's written in folklore When Finn McCool took a sod of grass and threw it to the fore, And he tossed a pebble across the sea, wherever did it fall? For the sod became the Isle of Man and the pebble's called Rockall.

Whoever writes the best song keeps the rock ,and that's Irelands wolf tones with rock on rockall

Sealand should invade it.

St Kilda being called a tiny terrible island is a bit much, considering it is one of two places on earth with both UNESCO world heritage site status in both a cultural and natural sense (Machu Pichu is the other). Otherwise nice

This could be a great place to have a rock concert.

1:37 flag is upside down

“The immortal Queen Elizabeth” lmao

4:26 when you use lots of pictures and fancy fonts on your school assignment to distract from the rushed content...

Rock: Exists U.K: We must Get that before someone else gets that!

"Since the US didn't sign the paper on the EEZ we can all go fish in "their" waters". *Change my mind*

I'm a brit and the comments were more entertaining than the video itself

As the Wolfe Tones put it "This rock is part of Ireland For it's written in folklore When Finn McCool took a sod of grass He threw it to the fore When he tossed a pebble across the sea Where ever did it fall For the sod became the Isle of Man Now the pebble's called Rockall"

2:43 Finally HAI. Thank you for finally giving us the correct unit of measurement. Legends use lightyears

"There is no flat land, so nobody can live there." - the video. (And the population of Switzerland falls over laughing) Dig some tunnels into the rock, excavate some living space in there, and one can make almost anything habitable. Maybe not pleasant, but habitable. The British gave up too easily.

"The UK are experts at losing territory" Oof

*_China wants to know your location_*

When he says the queen ordered !! You know he’s making most of this up lol

"Rockall is a mostly-uninhabited island." Thousands of p'oed seagulls: "Wot u say m8?!"

Rocks: Exist The UK: It’s free real estate!

Stop showing my password with every Dashlane ad.

As someone from just outside Glasgow, I've gotta say, you nailed your description of Scotland at the start 😂

What a brilliant video. The description of what constitutes Scotland was absolutely accurate. Who ever wrote the script deserves a Nobel prize for literature/Journalism.

ITT people making *original* "The Rock" jokes

Scandinavia - We have some of the best education & quality of life in the world England - mE hAve rOCk

She's not very immortal anymore

"Loosing a whole world's worth of territory has got to be rough, but what even worse is loosing is your password." Someone sounded like Hermione Granger.

Give all my passwords to a bunch of strangers in an unknown location sounds like the exact opposite of everything I know about passwords.

Thank goodness you included my preferred unit of distance, the light year.

Finally someone actually made an accurate description of Scotland, except the kilts, they really aren’t all that popular

The saying of "The immortal Queen Elizabeth" did not age well

UK and Ireland came to agreement on Rockall in 1988. The rock was actually claimed by Ireland first and got there before the British Navy (Fishermen Operating out of Donegal). It lies just outside the territorial waters claimed by Ireland. It is a political issue that pops up here every few years 👍🏻 great video

Ello m8 this islet is the property of the British empire . Deal with it lol - signed da QWEEN

losing a password is more rough than losing the biggest empire the world's seen, nice one

His description of the Scottish is near spot on and I love it.

Now while this video explains why Britain claimed Rockall and why they want to keep it, I still don't understand why they want to keep it inhabitable as mentionned in the title. If someone understood why, please help me.

but what if i lose access to my dashlane account?

Britain: this is an island UN: no Japan: *heavy sweating (okinotori island) Britain: *gazing at Japan Japan: this is an island UN: yes Britain: ...

4:09 sure But they are also experts at claiming and discovering land

"it's fine though, the UK is expert at losing territory", well, excuse me but we have to gain the territory in the first place to lose it

The UK wants all of these islands because chances are Luke Skywalker will be on one of them so they can capture him.

Thank you for putting the distances in light years. How the hell am I supposed to know the distances if they aren't given in light years?

Rockall has been claimed by the U.K. by landing on Rockall on more than one occasion and raised the Union Jack 🇬🇧, the first time wasn’t 1955, it had happened some years earlier. So without argument it belongs to the U.K. and the waters around it. By the way Greggs is a company from the Northeast of England, it’s not a Scottish Company, but has shops all over the U.K.

Greggs is a UK thing in general you silly goose.

Thanks to Chinese 'island' building technology, you'll be glad this is British in the long run. : "More people have landed on the moon than have landed on Rockall." - MP for Kilmarnock

A lot of people in Ireland claim Rockall is ours.

Rockall is part of Ireland It's written in folklore Finn McCool took a sod of grass And threw it to the floor Then he tossed a pebble across the sea Wherever did they fall? The sod became the isle of Man The pebbles called rockall.

Why didn't they just put a building on top, with it's own roof farm and a tiny desalination plant so it could support human life without help from the shore, and therefore meet the requirement?

Firstly this was a build up to a terrible advert. ALSO Greggs is from Newcastle upon Tyne and not from Scotland.

Make a lighthouse inside the rock and just pay people to live in there with an inside growing area to make it sustainable, expensive but imagine all that fish.

The Queen: has a son The Queen when her son speaks gibberish: that's another name for this island

0:14 Oi! Greggs ain’t Scottish! It’s from Newcastle Upon Tyne, England! And we are proud of our pasty heritage!

Rock on Rockall, you'll never fall! To Britain's greedy hands!

the British out here pulling a Charlie Brown "I got a rock"

1:35 - My countries flag is being presented upside down - offensive.

Rockall's British claim is not recognized by Ireland.

Bonus marks for converting the economic exclusion zone into light years!

And when any other nation gets anyone to Rockall , there is a Church of England Minister based there, offering "Cake or Death" whilst waving the Union Jack.

I always laugh when people say the British lost their empire. It's not like the Australians, new zealanders, canadians and even the americans haven't had their back every time they've needed it no questions asked. Instead of controlling their empire by force they just use persuasion. Then they have the huge list of commonwealth countries that they help out economically. This is before mentioning the islands and millitary bases they have strategically all over the world. Their empire still exists it just is hiddden from view and opperates in a more friendly way using their common interests to persuade former colonies to do their bidding and using their cultural exports (music, movies etc) to gain support from other countries.