7 Surprising Facts about the uninhabited Clipperton Island

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In this video you can find seven little known facts about Clipperton Island. Keep watching and subscribe, as more episodes will follow! • You can now support this channel via Patreon, by accessing the link bellow. Thank you! • / 7facts • Learn, Share, Subscribe • US States Territories • • US States Territories • 206 Countries in One Series • • 7 Facts from around the World (all vi... • Social Media: • / sebastian2go • / official7facts • ------------------------------------------------ • More information about the video content bellow: • 1. Clipperton Island is an uninhabited 6 km2 (2.3 sq mi) coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Central America. It is 10,677 kilometres away from Paris. It is low-lying and largely barren, with some scattered grasses and a few clumps of coconut palms (Cocos nucifera). • 2. The island was discovered on Good Friday, 3 April 1711 by Frenchmen. The current name comes from John Clipperton, an English pirate and privateer who fought the Spanish during the early 18th century, and who is said to have passed by the island. Some sources say he used it as a base for his raids on shipping, but there is no documentary evidence. Other claimants included the United States, whose American Guano Mining Company claimed it under the Guano Islands Act of 1856; Mexico also claimed it due to activities undertaken there as early as 1848–1849. On 17 November 1858 Emperor Napoleon III annexed it as part of the French colony of Tahiti. • 3. Mexico reasserted its claim late in the 19th century, and on 13 December 1897 sent the gunboat La Demócrata to occupy and annex it. A colony was established, and a series of military governors was posted. France insisted on its ownership, and a lengthy diplomatic correspondence between the two nations led to the conclusion of a treaty on March 2, 1909, to seek the arbitration of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, with each nation promising to abide by his determination. His decision was not rendered until 1931. • 4. The British Pacific Island Company acquired the rights to guano deposits in 1906 and built a mining settlement in conjunction with the Mexican government. By 1914 around 100 people—men, women, and children—were living there, resupplied every two months by a ship from Acapulco. With the escalation of fighting in the Mexican Revolution, the regular resupply visits ceased and the inhabitants were left to their own devices. By 1917 all but one of the male inhabitants had died. • 5. In early 1962 the island provided a home to nine crewmen of the sunken tuna clipper MV Monarch, stranded for 23 days from 6 February to 1 March. They reported that the lagoon water was drinkable, though they preferred to drink water from the coconuts they found. Unable to use any of the dilapidated buildings, they constructed a crude shelter from cement bags and tin salvaged from Quonset huts built by the American military 20 years earlier. • 6. The only land animals known to exist are two species of reptiles, bright-orange land crabs, birds, and rats, the rats probably arriving from large fishing boats that were wrecked on the island in 1999 and 2000. The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because of the large breeding colony of masked boobies, with 110,000 individual birds recorded. The lagoon harbours millions of isopods, which swimmers say can deliver a painful sting. • 7. When the independence of Algeria in 1962 threatened French nuclear testing sites in the African nation, the French Ministry of Defence considered Clipperton Island as a possible replacement. This was eventually ruled out due to the hostile climate and remote location. The French explored reopening the lagoon and developing a harbour for trade and tourism during the 1970s but this idea was abandoned. • More Info: • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper... • Music: • Teknoaxe – Post Mortem Cosmonaut • / @teknoaxe • Images: • By Shannon Rankin, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) - http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/mv..., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... • https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p3wNu_Vvxww/ma... • By EVS-Islands - Flickr, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... • http://mexicounexplained.com/isle-pas... • https://internal.bdoutdoors.com/2011/... • https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1126279 • Intro Creator: • Pushed to Insanity • http://pushedtoinsanity.com/portfolio...

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