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What if I told you there’s a single island on Earth legally ruled by three different sovereign nations? Or that, despite being famous for its ancient, impenetrable jungles, it’s currently the construction site for a high-tech, futuristic mega-city? From an underground cave chamber large enough to park 40 jumbo jets to a 19th-century kingdom ruled by a rogue English adventurer, welcome to Borneo—a landmass that holds some of the most extreme geographical anomalies on the planet.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
00:33 - Third-Largest Island on Earth
01:30 - Older Than the Amazon
02:24 - Largest Known Underground Chamber
03:21 - The Towering Mount Kinabalu
04:14 - Bizarre and Endemic Life
05:12 - Sponsored By Proton VPN
07:13 - Once Connected to Mainland Asia
08:06 - 40,000 Years of Human History
09:04 - Dominance of the Bruneian Empire
09:59 - The Kingdom of the "White Rajahs"
10:57 - Shaped by the British and Dutch
11:53 - The Only Island Shared by Three Sovereign Nations
12:50 - The Indigenous Dayak Peoples and Longhouses
13:48 - The Birth of a New Capital City
14:47 - Incredible Linguistic Diversity
15:45 - The Palm Oil Boom and Landscape Alteration
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