Cocos Island: A Real Life ‘Treasure Island’
Cocos Island: A Real Life ‘Treasure Island’
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References & Additional Sources:
Location, Description and Biodiversity:
https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/file/Case_Study_Cocos_Island_National_Park.pdf
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cocos+Island+National+Park/@5.5290603,-87.0748844,14z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x8fa4671ddf5de42f:0xe97b3fc4b72a131b!2sGolfo+Dulce!3b1!8m2!3d8.4691779!4d-83.2077645!3m4!1s0x8f92ef8b4dbc7faf:0x7d61387765c0870!8m2!3d5.5332999!4d-87.0667
History in general:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sharks/island/legends.html
Articles by Costa Rican historians (in Spanish):
https://www.nacion.com/revista-dominical/piratas-y-tesoros-escondidos-de-la-isla-del-coco/3ARAUQARP5ESJMUDNWUE7PHNIY/story/?outputType=amp-type
https://wol.jw.org/es/wol/d/r4/lp-s/101997689
http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442018000301347
http://sinabi.go.cr/biblioteca%20digital/LIBROS%20COMPLETOS/Jinesta%20Ricardo/La%20Isla%20del%20Coco.pdf
https://mk0cocosislandohbvpl.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/naufragios-epigrafias-isla-del-coco-faico.pdf
Articles in English:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2019/08/27/a-one-billion-dollar-treasure-is-buried-on-this-island-in-costa-rica-and-you-will-never-find-it/amp/
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/08/cocos-islands-rich-pirate-history
The ‘Moffat’ article on Cap Beckett: https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=MCC19111207-01.2.50&
The ‘Examiner’ article on the California Society for Archaeological Investigations:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/92648597
Sir Malcom Campbell’s expedition:
https://www.angloboerwar.com/index.php?option=com_grid&gid=22_uw_0&p=30
https://www.iberlibro.com/primera-edicion/Searching-Pirate-Treasure-Cocos-Island-Sir/21096149491/bd
Lots of people from Costa Rica in the comments, pura vida.
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For movie buffs, Cocos Island is essentially where Jurassic Park places Isla Sorna.
You’d look great in a tricorn hat and eye patch. Arr!
After finding out this wasn’t about the keeling Islands all I have to say the keeling Islands also have an interesting tale, I think it would be worth of a video on its own
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I’d watch the shit out of a video about Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania
19:20 What is that monstrosity? My head hurts just looking at that. None of it makes any sense.
So you’re saying there’s a chance!
Laugh tale
Dbag
Will Thompson was no pirate and his first mate’s name was James Alexander Forbes. Thompson went to Newfoundland and that is where he met Keeting.
Now that’s a pirate’s treasure island story.
I had a dream last night that you did a geographics video on Earth
So this is Oak Island with a better climate.
I can’t possibly think of a better long term investment than rum, tobacco, and women. I’m pretty sure that’s what all the investment bankers say.
Afaik GeoVision was late 90s early 09s junk-science. Think the Theranos of geo surveying, but post Sovjet era baltic budget. Would supposedly completely revolutionize geo- and oceanographic surveying, being extremely sensitive, taking 30 times less time, be stupidly cheap etc. Russians targeted Russian, Western’ South American and UAE oil companies, African mining corps etc.
A shame really. Otherwise would certainly rattle off a Kickstarter to pay off that bill.
Alliteration c word for rubbish was teezed
Im gathering a crew. Who’s with m3?
Do they put errors in the bottom headlines on purpose?
Dr Livesey
I went to cocos island in december 2019, stayed there for a month, i didn’t look for the treasure since i didn’t knew any details at that time, when i came back i started investigating what i could and now i have a theory of why the treasure hasn’t been found since when i was there i saw some funny things about the geography
Your sacrism and flippant attitude is refreshing
Lol Simon said booty.
Rrr Jim lad.. X marks the spot..
today, the Lima treasure (whilst it has much cash value)
would be more interesting for its archeological significance
it would be of great cultural significance to find such a hoard, especially given that it purportedly contains both early South American Catholic relics and objects repurposed from the Inca civilization… something we do not have enough of for the research of that period…
If the treasure is there then it should be left there. The legend is too great to see ended with someone hauling the treasure out.
As someone who grew up in Launceston Tasmania, it was very odd to hear our local rag quoted in this video.
Lol I was expecting a doco about Keeling islands.
My question is even if you found any of this treasure would you actually be allowed to keep it or would it belong to the government of Costa Rica?
Arh, a burred pirate treasure story from Simon, I don’t really care they didn’t find it, it was still a fun ride.
It’s amazing how beautiful a place can be when humans don’t touch it
How many channels do you have?
Cocos island is a little australian island it’s not a costa rican island
One of your fellow YouTube vloggers has said that "all great stories have pirates in them." Thanks for hosting several of them.
I heard about this island when I was 17 . I’m 45 now.
Had a dream about of building my own submarine and investigating this place. Ah…
The power of youthful imagination. Gonna go find it.
I’m currently looking for a gold mine in New Mexico.
I am seeing this video from Pakistan .
So, the 60-million-dollar find in 1940 was just a hoax? (I tried to google it, but only found newspaper clippings from that year.)
How about the 200-million-dollar find by the park rangers in 2015? Reportedly, they found "golden statues of the Virgin Mary, and other religious symbols". So, are these statues on display anywhere?
I’m sorry, Phoebe, but I think Jacques Cousteau is dead!
I got excited thinking it was about the keeling Islands as I will be building a runway/air force base hopefully in the next year
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The park rangers must be the most unlucky bunch. All that time on the island and no booty.
19:13 WTF!? Is that a Space Shuttle mounted on a Saturn V connected with a truss structure to a pair of shuttle fuel tanks and SRBs, plus solar panels and four more giant fuel tanks? If the video editor is taking the piss, then that is hilarious. Otherwise the video editor needs to learn stop smoking crack while they’re buying stock footage.
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I wonder if this island is what the game series Monkey Island is based off of. It’s surprisingly similar.
when the stories are better than what they were all trying to achieve.
I’ve always been fascinated by the age of pirates 🙂👌
It’s best that this pristine environment is preserved
The one piece is real!
Lol Simon really infuriated at all the booty research needed for this video 😂 bachelors delight?