Limited Time Offer – Get Huel’s full High-Protein Starter Kit with my exclusive offer of 20% OFF online with my code GEOFF20 at https://www.huel.com/GEOFF20. New Customers Only. Code is only valid for the bundle. Thank you to Huel for partnering and supporting our show! -- Why Spain Owns A Tiny Piece of Africa: https://youtu.be/8jk0L75vqSE -- 📖 Subscribe to my Substack! 👉 https://geographicgeoff.substack.com -- What if I told you there is a country so long it could stretch from Norway to the Sahara Desert, yet so narrow you can drive across it in just two hours? Or that the driest place on Earth, where rain hasn't fallen in centuries, is the same country that provides the world with nearly 30% of its copper? From the highest active volcano on the planet to the world's oldest mummies—predating Egypt’s by thousands of years—this is a land of impossible extremes. Welcome to Chile, a "ribbon of land" wedged between the towering Andes and the vast Pacific that defies every geographic rule in the book. -- Chapters: 0:00 - A Land of Impossible Extremes 0:37 - World’s Longest Country 1:27 - Mars on Earth 2:16 - The High-Altitude Giant 3:05 - A Land of Fire 3:55 - The Great Valdivia Earthquake 4:47 - Sponsored by Huel 6:11 - World’s Oldest Mummies 7:03 - The Real Robinson Crusoe Island 7:54 - Birthplace of the Potato 8:45 - The Unconquered Mapuche 9:35 - Darwin’s Geological Awakening 10:29 - The Southernmost City 11:15 - An Artificial Ocean 12:05 - Gran Torre Santiago: An Anti-Seismic Marvel 12:51 - A UFO Hotspot 13:41 - The Copper Backbone -- 🌳 Find me: https://linktr.ee/geoffgibson 🗺️ Map store: https://mapsbygeoff.com -- Stock footage and music acquired from www.envato.com, www.storyblocks.com and videvo.net. If you think there's been an error in using a video clip, please contact me. This has been a production of Sound Bight Media (soundbight.com)