Ep. 135 - The Mad King of Clipperton Island

The Conspirators Podcast

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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There's a tiny atoll of the western coast of Mexico called Clipperton Island. Back in 1917, a group of women and children had to fight for survival, against a monster who held them in terror. Check out our new merchandise store! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-conspirators-podcast?ref_id=13696&utm_campaign=13696&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=The%2BConspirators%2BPodcast Notes: https://clippertonislandstory.com https://themazatlanpost.com/2019/03/22/the-tragic-history-of-clipperton-the-last-territory-lost-by-mexico/ https://www.damninteresting.com/the-tyrant-clipperton-island/ https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/the-age-of-scurvy https://mikedashhistory.com/2011/02/13/an-abandoned-lifeboat-at-worlds-end/ Music: Long Note Three by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3993-long-note-three License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Dexter Britain, "The Tea Party" https://dexterbritain.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The world is filled with many questions such as did giants exist?
0:04.0	What is junk DNA? Does it mean that you're trash?
0:07.0	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans and that's why there are so many
0:12.2	UFOs sightings off the coast of
0:14.0	violence all over the world. How serious even is climate change and when should we
0:19.1	start building our rafts? Hello everyone you may recognize me as Gabby from the History of Everything
0:24.0	podcast and my name is Brenna and you don't recognize me from anything yet.
0:28.6	Together we're two scientists who explore the answers to these questions and many, many more in our new
0:33.6	podcast, Mystery of Everything, available everywhere you get your podcasts. You'd be hard-pressed to find a more remote place on Earth than Bouvet Island.
0:50.0	It's the closest piece of land to Antarctica in the furthest reaches of the southern ocean.
0:57.0	This tiny speck of volcanic rock is mostly covered in ice and devoid of life, trees, or any real shelter.
1:06.2	It was first discovered on January 1st, 1739 by a French polar explorer named Jean Baptiste
1:11.6	Bouvet de lausére. After that, the a where it had been placed on the maps.
1:23.2	For more than a century, explorers kept missing the tiny island because of its remoteness
1:27.4	and the treacherous icy waters all around.
1:31.4	It wouldn't be until 1927 when a group of Norwegian explorers became the first in history to actually land on Bouvet Island and make camp there.
1:39.0	The Norwegians returned in 1929 only to discover that both their supply huts had been destroyed by hostile weather.
1:47.0	After that Bouvet Island was once again left alone until 1955,
1:51.0	when the South African government began looking into establishing a weather station there.
1:57.6	The South African frigate Transval was dispatched to the island, but they ended up circling
2:02.0	around the place several times
2:03.1	before determining there wasn't any large flat platform suitable for building a
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