From Geography King.
Most fascinating tidbit to me? The fact that France still owns two islands off the coast of Canada.
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From Geography King.
Most fascinating tidbit to me? The fact that France still owns two islands off the coast of Canada.
St. Pierre & Miquelon.
ReplyDeleteWarms my heart just thinking of the place.
The backstory:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/st-pierre-fishermen-chase-anti-sealing-ship-from-harbour-1.755062
The video:
(trigger warning: This video contains alarming scenes of North American French fishermen using axes to cut the mooring hawsers of a vessel operated by "Sea Shepherd" & making credible physical threats to persons representing "Sea Shepherd")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-E13BeaVYY
The French can be quite realistic at times.
Boy, that's some wild west stuff, right there!
ReplyDelete..."fisherman Carl Beaupertuis...
I'm really diggin' that last name!
You don't hear much about seal hunting these days. The oh-so-caring used them up as a propaganda tool, then moved on to polar bears, and now since those species stubbornly refuse to be endangered, they're pivoting to the poor grizzly bears.
ReplyDeleteI love the Geography King. I wonder how he finds out about this stuff.
You forgot penguins. They were ditched in favor of polar bears. WWF is still pitching the polars.
DeleteI don't know where he finds this stuff, but it's enthralling.
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