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Luke Caverns

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The First Explorers of Dodo Island: Discovery & Extinction of the Dodo Bird

Mauritius

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Field notes

On this episode of The First Explorers: the story of Mauritius Island & the Dodo Bird’s extinction is one of the wildest, most unhinged stories I’ve ever dug into. I tracked down the 400 year old English translations of the original Dutch explorers of Mauritius Island—to piece together the 100 year collapse of the island & disappearance of, not only the Dodo Bird, but 11 other species…

The First Explorers series is intended to bring to life the word-for-word firsthand accounts from explorers on the edges of the world…

Part 3 of 6

The First Explorers

The word-for-word, firsthand accounts of the explorers who reached these places first, brought back to life.

  1. 01The First Explorers of the Amazon: Evidence of Lost Civilizations in South America
  2. 02The First Explorers of Machu Picchu: Megalithic City in the Clouds
  3. 03The First Explorers of Dodo Island: Discovery & Extinction of the Dodo Bird
  4. 04The First Explorers of the Olmecs: A Truly Lost Civilization
  5. 05The First Explorers of the Osirion: Egypt’s Buried Megaliths
  6. 06The First Explorers of the Amazon, Olmecs, & more! (3 hour Supercut)

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