The Plaice to Know

Episode

4: No Such Thing As The Mountains of Kong

2014-03-29 · 5 places on the map · episode transcript

  1. Google EarthOne-offUnited States

    When they were doing a Google Earth survey of it, they discovered a missing bit of the wall, and they discovered a local village nearby who had just obviously come across this wall and gone, well, no one seems to be…

    mentioned at 00:04:51 · See it on the map →

  2. KentuckyOne-offUnited States

    There was a politician in America called Leonard Live Forever Jones. He ran for governor of Kentucky in the 1860s and he ran on a platform of being immortal. Because he was immortal, he refused any medical help of any…

    mentioned at 00:12:35 · See it on the map →

  3. BingervilleOne-offIvory Coast

    There's an explorer whose main discovery was undiscovering the Mountains of Kong. His name is Louis Gustav Binger. There's a town named after him, Bingerville.

    mentioned at 00:16:05 · See it on the map →

  4. New York StateOne-offUnited States

    There's a place called Aglo in New York State and it was made up by a guy. He put it on a map and I think it was an anagram of his name or an anagram of someone's name. It was a completely made-up thing but it got…

    mentioned at 00:16:31 · See it on the map →

  5. Bermeja IslandOne-offMexico

    Bermeja Island is strategically important. Because if you get the waters around it, you get a lot of oil deposits. Unfortunately for Mexico, it also vanished several years ago.

    mentioned at 00:17:28 · See it on the map →

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