National Geographic's TWO Newest Atlases

After a recent video, someone from the National Geographic Society reached out to give me an updated set of their atlases. Today I open them up to see if there's anything new worth seeing.

[tomrutter]

National Geographic wrote YOU about your geography channel?! That's like Santa writing YOU a letter.

[roxjeruben]

maybe you can do an interview with the senior cartographer of National Geographic.

[Radnugget]

Also on Dogger Bank, what is funny about it, is that Nat Geo is the one that really got it more into the mainstream with an entire magazine dedicated to Doggerland.

[Im-just-Stardust]

That's cool from National Geographic to have done that. Always been a fan as well since my childhood, National Geographic made me dream of exploring this wild world.

[MarsJenkar]

It doesn't surprise me that the biggest changes to the atlases were for underwater features. There's still a lot about the ocean that we don't know, and it makes sense that the oceanography section lags a bit compared to the sections describing surface features.

[Dustyrunes]

I recently started a job fishing out on George’s bank and whenever I’m asked I’ve had to vaguely point to that patch of ocean and say roughly here so cool that it’s finally been added to the maps. Also I had no idea it was so recently above water. Thanks for the info and well done on another great video.

[uydagcusdgfughfgsfggsifg]

13:20 - Baiting them to send you the 6th Edition I see 🤣

Always a pleasure to see you’ve posted

[MatthewTheWanderer]

National Geographic gave me 2 World Atlases for winning my state's Geography Bee twice in 1995 and 1996 (as they did to every state winner). I ended up winning 3rd at the National Geography Bee in 1996. I've thought they were the best World Atlases ever since! They were the most up-to-date atlases available at the time, too, but I knew I'd eventually need to get them updated. If only I could afford new ones now!

[lassefiedler]

I don’t think Zealandia will ever be a designated feature in such atlases. Simply because there is a much more important feature above water right in the middle of it: the islands of New Zealand. Instead of draping the name Zealandia or Zealandian Plateau right over the island chain and its surrounding plateaus, it would be way more effective to just mark New Zealand and its surrounding plateaus. Just like the European Continental Shelf is not designated as such, but broken up into the North and Baltic Sea, the English Channel, the Irish Sea and so on and so forth.

[ahha]

OMG I'm so happy for you Caelan that's awesome! NatGeo did see you!

[Makaneek]

Those trumpets at the end, core memory unlocked.

[elfinkenshi]

From a geography nerd on Youtube to possibly one of the most influential people in the international geographic community

[Imperiused]

This is so awesome! I'm glad some folks over at Nat Geo have discovered the channel! I'm going to make sure to put some money aside to buy that comprehensive Atlas of the World. Looks incredibly detailed.

[bryanCJC]

I used to work at the Rand McNally store in San Francisco where we sold lots of different atlases and later was a product manager for Rand McNally. I found that different atlases have a perspective that they do best, as it's hard to include everything geographic in one book. There are a lot of cost/benefit problems to resolve such as level of detail vs legibility, scale vs page count, primary purpose vs addl information, and more, all of which has to be balanced against desired cost. So an atlas is measured against how well it is able to manage those equations to achieve an acceptable balance.
My preference has always been Nat Geo because I did grow up with Nat Geo atlases and my Dad was an avid subscriber of the Nat Geo magazines since the 1950s. I'm used to Nat Geo's cartographic style as being the gold standard.

[biblio_mama]

I’ve forgotten how much fun we had going through the family atlas as kids. It’s time to get one to share with my grandkids!

[SOOKIE]

These videos seriously reactivate that little kid in me that used to love just reading any dictionary, encyclopedia, or atlas I could get my hands on regardless of what they covered.

[suspectsusphium]

When he posts i know its going to be a good day

[strawberrybrittcake]

We also had a National Geographic World Atlas when i was a kid. Ours was from the late 70’s or Early 80’s. I wore it out looking at it so much, but it got even more damaged from some hurricane flooding later on. My mom bought a brand new one about 10 years ago and i kept the old beat up one. I have been removing some of my favorite pages and framing them around my apartment. Like my bathroom is Moon themed and so i framed the pages about the moon and the universe to hang up in there.

[pizzagroom]

I love that having old, slightly outdated geographic/world atlas' is something every Gen Z experienced. They're a snapshot of the world before the Digital Age

[JasonCliftJones]

4:22 - Dogger Bank is relatively well known in the UK, and lends its name to one of the Shipping Forecast regions; Dogger.
This has broadcast on BBC Radio 4 several times a day for nearly a century.