Hudson Bay Isn't What You Think
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Hudson Bay is not a bay. It is a dent an ice sheet left in the crust of a continent, filling with sea water it has not finished pushing back out. The land around it is rising about fourteen millimetres a year, the water is being squeezed off the edges, and the whole thing is closing.
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Thirty things about this place that are wrong, counted down. A company that bought a watershed from a king who had never seen it. A rocket range nobody remembers. A shape on the eastern shore so circular that the Dominion Astronomer went looking for a crater. Polar bear numbers that were transcribed wrong. And a rock on the coast that may be older than anything else on Earth, sitting under water younger than farming.
SOURCES
Sole, O'Neil, Rizo et al., Science, 26 June 2025 · Reusen, Root et al., Journal of Geophysical Research, 2020 · Sella et al., Geophysical Research Letters, 2007 · Fairbridge and Hillaire-Marcel, Nature, August 1977 · Lajeunesse and St-Onge, Nature Geoscience, 2008 · Matero et al., 2017 · Kobashi et al. on the Greenland ice cores · St-Onge, Searle and Wodicka, Tectonics, 2006 · Dietz and Barringer, Meteoritics, 1973 · Hynes, Tectonics, 1991 · Gupta et al., Elementa, 2022 · Lukovich et al., Elementa, 2021 · Soriot, Stroeve and Crawford, Geophysical Research Letters, 22 February 2025 · Regehr, Lunn, Amstrup and Stirling, Journal of Wildlife Management, 2007 · Atkinson et al., Government of Nunavut, 2022 · Molnar et al., Nature Climate Change, 20 July 2020 · Raghavan et al., Science, 2014 · Tsuji et al., Arctic, 2020 · McDonald, Arragutainaq and Novalinga, Voices from the Bay, 1997 · Eastwood et al., Estuaries and Coasts, 2020 · Packalen et al., 2014 and Li et al., 2025 · Hudson's Bay Company Archives · Dictionary of Canadian Biography · Nunatsiaq News, 17 February 2025
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Learn to tighten up the presentation; if you're going to get eyeballs on by saying Hudson's Bay is shrinking, and you're wasting time on words that no one understands or cares about, then you've wasted the viewers time.
Hudson Bay Isn't What You Think
The Hidden Provinces
4,625 views
Hudson Bay is not a bay. It is a dent an ice sheet left in the crust of a continent, filling with sea water it has not finished pushing back out. The land around it is rising about fourteen millimetres a year, the water is being squeezed off the edges, and the whole thing is closing.
What's beneath YOUR town? Personalized 15-page report — the rock, the name, the vanished places, your town's oldest map → https://hiddenprovinces.com
Thirty things about this place that are wrong, counted down. A company that bought a watershed from a king who had never seen it. A rocket range nobody remembers. A shape on the eastern shore so circular that the Dominion Astronomer went looking for a crater. Polar bear numbers that were transcribed wrong. And a rock on the coast that may be older than anything else on Earth, sitting under water younger than farming.
SOURCES
Sole, O'Neil, Rizo et al., Science, 26 June 2025 · Reusen, Root et al., Journal of Geophysical Research, 2020 · Sella et al., Geophysical Research Letters, 2007 · Fairbridge and Hillaire-Marcel, Nature, August 1977 · Lajeunesse and St-Onge, Nature Geoscience, 2008 · Matero et al., 2017 · Kobashi et al. on the Greenland ice cores · St-Onge, Searle and Wodicka, Tectonics, 2006 · Dietz and Barringer, Meteoritics, 1973 · Hynes, Tectonics, 1991 · Gupta et al., Elementa, 2022 · Lukovich et al., Elementa, 2021 · Soriot, Stroeve and Crawford, Geophysical Research Letters, 22 February 2025 · Regehr, Lunn, Amstrup and Stirling, Journal of Wildlife Management, 2007 · Atkinson et al., Government of Nunavut, 2022 · Molnar et al., Nature Climate Change, 20 July 2020 · Raghavan et al., Science, 2014 · Tsuji et al., Arctic, 2020 · McDonald, Arragutainaq and Novalinga, Voices from the Bay, 1997 · Eastwood et al., Estuaries and Coasts, 2020 · Packalen et al., 2014 and Li et al., 2025 · Hudson's Bay Company Archives · Dictionary of Canadian Biography · Nunatsiaq News, 17 February 2025
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