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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Classic: Million Dollar Point

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

We visit Vanuatu in the South Pacific and go underwater to visit a very strange place from a very strange episode at the end of World War II. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/million-dollar-point

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Samir, can you, can you hear me okay?

0:03.3

Yes, I can.

0:04.3

Hi, Dylan.

0:05.3

Hey, hey, how you doing?

0:08.3

Everyone, this is Samir Patel.

0:10.5

He is the editor-in-chief of Atlas Obscura, and Samir, what are you very experienced at?

0:18.4

Over the years, I have accumulated a lot of scuba diving experience.

0:22.9

I've dived on shipwrecks because I used to write a lot about archaeology.

0:27.2

I've dived in caves and with sharks and on reefs.

0:31.2

But some of the memories of the South Pacific, which is where I think we're going to go here,

0:36.2

are still very strong in my mind.

0:38.3

You ready to take us down underwater?

0:40.6

Absolutely.

0:41.6

I'm Dylan Thurus, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible,

0:50.7

and wondrous places.

0:52.8

Today, we're going to the island nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific.

0:57.5

And we're headed off the coast, off the edge of it, underwater to visit a very strange

1:02.5

place from a very strange episode at the end of World War II, a place called Million Dollar

1:09.8

Point.

1:10.8

That's after this.

1:22.8

I should start by revealing a certain amount of geographical ignorance.

1:37.4

We're in the world.

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