Why Planes Avoid The South Atlantic

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🚶I'm walking across Singapore! https://youtu.be/Q9tY1lLdISw?si=RFfGaUCGdai6a_bh -- 📖 Subscribe to my Substack! 👉 https://geographicgeoff.substack.com 👈 -- 🌳 Find me: https://linktr.ee/geoffgibson 🗺️ Map store: https://geoffxmuirway.com/ -- Every day over 100,000 airplanes take off to destinations hundreds or thousands of miles aware. And over the last century, the world has become increasingly more connected. There are very few places in the world you can't get to by plane today. But that doesn't mean planes fly everywhere. In fact, there's one VERY LARGE region of the planet that planes seem to avoid entirely: the South Atlantic ocean. So why don't planes fly between South America and Africa? In this video, we'll cover the geography of South America, Africa, and the South Atlantic ocean. Then we'll talk about the history of trans-Atlantic flights and how the south differed from the north. Finally, we'll go through each reason (geographic, historic, economic, and population) as to why almost no flights connect South America and Africa. -- Stock footage and music acquired from www.envato.com, www.storyblocks.com and videvo.net. If you think there's been an error in using a video clip, please contact me. This has been a production of Sound Bight Media (soundbight.com)