Ascension Island – supplying the garrison
Ascension Island – supplying the garrison
Watch the three-part Britain’s Treasure Islands documentary series on BBC FOUR, starting Tue 12 Apr 2016 21:00. (repeated Wed 13 Apr 2016 20:00).
This mini-documentary follows the story of Ascension Island, a UK Overseas Territory in the Atlantic Ocean. Ascension is a small, desolate volcanic island, yet it proved essential in the 19th century as an important victualing station for ships rounding the capes. The British garrisoned the island, built large forts and relied on the strongholds with vital supplies that could make or break round the world voyages. After Charles Darwin and Joseph Hooker visited the island, the two naturalists developed a radical idea – to create a man-made rainforest on Ascension’s tallest cinder to create drinking water for the garrisoned soldiers. The experiment was a spectacular success, and by the 1870s, the dry volcanic desert had been transformed into a lush rainforest. We explore the legacy of the experiment, and the surprising use of planted Norfolk Island pines.
http://www.BritainsTreasureIslands.com
Please note: although complementary to the BBC FOUR series, the 40 short mini-documentaries are not commissioned or editorially overseen by BBC.
BRITAIN’S TREASURE ISLANDS – MINI-DOCUMENTARIES
Introduction
Overview of the UK Overseas Territories https://youtu.be/gl9As81DiDE
Filming the Britain’s Treasure Islands TV documentary series https://youtu.be/W2_yNNE-mCw
Stewart McPherson’s lecture at the Royal Geographical Society https://youtu.be/xOt93lM2F2I
Mini-documentaries about each of the UK Overseas Territories
Ascension Island – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/XpLeHUCuY8c
Saint Helena – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/qIsI6paJYZs
Tristan da Cunha – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/Fspkfxcrfwc
Falkland Islands – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/DzOIb4D8SQE
South Georgia – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/oHZUibDpWuk
British Antarctic Territory – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/_V88voefIQk
British Indian Ocean Territory – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/nnDKVZQhCbI
Pitcairn Islands – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/yJZQyhx13AA
Bermuda – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/oIxF74vcfzM
Cayman Islands – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/TrSetBtLAB8
British Virgin Islands – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/z1lvLLG1Csg
Montserrat – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/BFnetjV8W2c
Anguilla – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/Bf3E6pD1nHM
Turks and Caicos Islands – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/JR_vLHHCO10
Akrotiri and Dhekelia – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/t4vqTl3EozM
Gibraltar – wildlife and heritage https://youtu.be/F4ueaYy9TRM
Mini-documentaries about specific subjects on particular UK Overseas Territories
Ascension Island – natives and aliens https://youtu.be/F0xMAIFgPg4
Ascension Island – supplying the garrison https://youtu.be/8BUDEUwx0hE
Saint Helena – wirebird conservation https://youtu.be/dlXg5zrBIlA
Saint Helena – plant conservation https://youtu.be/bL-pAsNHLdY
Life on Tristan da Cunha – the World’s Most Remote Inhabited Island https://youtu.be/n4ElF8awm90
Tristan da Cunha – the Monster Mice of Gough Island https://youtu.be/wT14Q7pZJzo
Falkland Islands – Jimmy the ex-whaler https://youtu.be/alaCe4LbWyo
British Indian Ocean Territory – coconut crabs https://youtu.be/JCkNSWz-IDc
British Indian Ocean Territory – seabirds https://youtu.be/quksfCDxbGE
British Indian Ocean Territory – underwater https://youtu.be/cTJd_WW_NHI
Pitcairn Islands – Henderson Island’s wildlife https://youtu.be/6jK3As_VAjc
Life on Pitcairn Island – home of the descendants of the mutineers from HMS Bounty https://youtu.be/vPZHzfRXzjA
Mini-documentaries about systematic wildlife groups across all of the UK Overseas Territories
Terrestrial Invertebrates of the UK Overseas Territories https://youtu.be/16AuBMsI_GY
Amphibians and Reptiles of the UK Overseas Territories https://youtu.be/JrFeLvyJ0Io
Plants of the UK Overseas Territories https://youtu.be/JimYKMzLaqY
Mammals of the UK Overseas Territories https://youtu.be/lnthUbLaBFk
Birds of the UK Overseas Territories https://youtu.be/A0irRRrUbKk
Marine Life of the UK Overseas Territories https://youtu.be/Bu5TydBKFFo
Overview mini-documentaries
Conservation Lessons of the UKOTs https://youtu.be/8VIK87Gd134
Islands of Evolution https://youtu.be/dP7nFXkOg48
Overview of the Britain’s Treasure Islands book https://youtu.be/OYgKyuC3xVY
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Overview of Britain’s Treasure Islands TV documentary series https://youtu.be/ynR40R50Unc
Awesome 💙
I spent some time there back in 1967 or 68 with aerospace rescue and recovery
This is like really rudimentary terraforming
5:59 Lord Ashcroft. Major Tax avoider. Yeah, many thanks
Es cierto que es una isla que vonose el mar en un solo lado ??
A delight. I wanted more.
I agree with you on plants ant Tree’s are the answer and so do lot’s of others. But I live in the American West and yes Blue grass and lawns are one extreme of needing too much water in a Desert. There are Native grasses plants and Trees that don’t. The Current on going trend is pull out your plants and put in rock. The City’s have been promoting it for about 25 here and longer eslsware. We need the middle ground. I have 28 years in a water utility. The people putting in rock are convinced they are saving water yes but they are stopping it when it rains or snows from recharging the aquifers it just runs off and floods down hill. Darwin was one of many ahead of the times on water.
Disen que fue un gran silbador
Interesting. I looked it up because it’s listed as part of a surveillance network. Presumably, a ground dish run by the RAF at their base. A bit bigger than I expected for an island seemingly in the middle of nowhere in the South Atlantic not fat from St. Helena ( as ocean distances go 🙂 Roughly half-way between South America and Africa, and a quarter of the way around the world from the UK.
I ran the ‘Due Pond Run’ with the TA Territorial Army long ago, you touch your foot in the sea at the Town below & run, well, walk as you climb higher right to the top at the Due Pond, an experience I can tell you, I was last & most unfit 1.58hr, but it was an achievement, Ascension Island is an experience you will never forget,,worth having a good wonder round
Awesome beautiful island
4:06 background music ?
So the plants were such they could be cut open and safely provide water, obviously.
I would think they also planted fruit trees and berries on this island to supply food 🤔👍
Soy simp boy is back
Alhamdulilla amazing കേരളത്തിലെ എന്റേ വീടിന്റേ വേലിയിലെ കണ്ടലും മറ്റു ചെടികളും അവിടെയുണ്ടല്ലോ
Is it just me, or was the host hella baked? Lol.
Yes Chef!!! 🙉🙊🙈
Who is the reporter/guy in video? Hes cute haha
My dad was there in the 1980s (I think) working on the USN’s communication antennas. I think he had more fun hanging out with officers from both British and American navies, I don’t remember him talking much about the landscape. It looks really interesting.
Too much music.
Is old mates head unhinged? Wobbles all over the place
Salud a tu pueblo
Very interesting indeed. Wonder if those gentlemen knew about the pros and cons of introducing alien species to the island. There are always dangers associate with artificially introducing non-indigenous species. I guess the island was barren enough to introduce any vegetation new. Not so with animals, the feral cats have driven out much seabirds.
your book is amazing, I am up to Bermuda. great photos,
I want to get married in this country.
Did it make water for animals or was it only enough for plants? This was never answered and it was the reason for the planting.
I love this channel community best side of youtube
I love how this guy always looks appropriately disheveled.
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One of the remaining bits and pieces of the greatest empire in world history – the British Empire! Three big cheers for the Brits for allowing its former colony of America to make use of this island/base.
What a lovely place.
John 3.16-21
Very interesting history. However Britain and UK are not interchangeable!
These videos are as remote as the islands
Draco !! If you know you know
Great video, but you failed to inform us on the success or other wise of the attempt to get water.
It just shows, we can create as well as destroy environments… very interesting indeed.
Disen que alli quedo lo que podria haber cambiado la historia de los colores
How wonderfully beautiful and telling, what plants will do with the most natural soils and skies ❤
I thought you would illustrate how water was extracted from those plants.
This guy looks baked as fuck.
0:08 Anyone have a name for this bgm?
men turned that island the way it is so its only fair that we fix our mistakes
Good blue print for terra forming Mars!
there is still much of the island that is bare, why? It would be nice to see if they could manage to turn the entire island into a forest, with plants from every corner of the planet. that would be an interesting artificial ecosystem, seeing which plants thrive when placed together.
Stop already with the background music! Makes it unwatchable, for me. Honest opinion.
I love these terraforming stories
An excellent video. Thank you.
Indeed the trees bestow the greatest ,the most thrilling prettiness upon the Earth’s landscape ! This landscape of this middle atlantic island is so spellbindlgy pretty with the trees on it !!!