Is there any place on Earth that hasn't been discovered yet?

Question

Have we mapped 100% of the Earths surface? With 21st century technology like Google Earth I can see my house and my backyard, I can explore desert and polar regions, so are there any surface areas that have not been mapped by satellite photography? If we have reached 100% then what year or decade did that happen?

Answer 1

I've always wondered that...

Answer 2

We have seen 100% of the earth FROM THE AIR but there are HUGE FREAKING CHUNKS of the planet that man has NEVER STEPPED FOOT or where man has lived yet civilization was lost... Like in Mexico... They still haven't found all the Mayan and Aztec pyramids!!

The nut-job environmentalists want you to believe that not only has man over run every single square inch of the earth but that there are no forests left... (I've heard some statistics that say that there is less then 25% of the worlds forests left...) and that is total bullshit.

The United States alone has more undisturbed forests then THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA!

Most of Alaska has never been 'discovered' by man... A majority of Canada has not been "Discovered" by man...

There are thousands of islands in the ocean that have never been visited by man...

For a place to have been "Discovered" you need to actually GO THERE... NOT just see it in a pic from a satilight.

An aerial view can only tell you that "There are trees here and sand there..." but they can't tell you about the animals or details about the environment...

You can only discover that on foot... And humans have a LONG way to go to actually GO everywhere on this great big blue ball of ours!

Answer 3

how would we know... if we haven't discovered it yet, we don't know what we're missing

I'd say yes though. Even underwater, we know there are places we can't get to because we don't have enough pressure technology yet to get us down to the bottom of many parts of the ocean floor. This is just one example...

Answer 4

No we dont know what on the bottom of the ocean and i'm sure theres a tiny tiny tiny piece of land in the middle of the atlantic that hasnt been mapped yet

Answer 5

Well, I don't think so... With our technology it would be weird just for something to pop up now, but who knows there may be a tiny island somewhere.... Anything can happen.

Answer 6

There's about 70% of the planet that we know little to nothing about. THey are called oceans.

Answer 7

if we knew the real answer, then this question wouldn't exist.

there could be places that we haven't discovered. maybe there's an underwater city or an invisible palace in the sky. maybe there's a part of Earth that has been shielded from the rest of the world since the beginning of time. or maybe this is all Earth has to offer. =3

Answer 8

Of corse there is places that never walk man but it is not unknowable.Satelits discover every millimeters. So what do you think what do the government of the great states like USA, Russia etc. We can look the surface of the Earth by Google Earth. So if WE LIKE ORDINARY PEOPLE can do this think about what can see the military and government peoples. Believe me the Earth is maybe not visited but it is seen by satelites every milimeters

Answer 9

We wouldn't know, because it wouldn't have been discovered!

There are places where people haven't really visited, like in deserts and polar regions, but we usually just assume that these areas are the same as the parts of them that we have seen.  There are also some places that probably haven't been extensively explored yet, like rainforests for example.  Another place that we haven't fully explored is the ocean, since it's so massive.  There could be all kinds of interesting species at the bottom of the ocean that we haven't discovered yet.

Answer 10

I have heard several times that our satellite systems are so advanced, that it would be nearly impossible for there to be land that we don't know about yet.  But yes, 70% of the planet is buried by ocean, most of which is undiscovered.

Answer 11

There more than 20% of the surface of the earth has not yet been visited by any man as yet. To explore the Himalayas , the Amazon basin , the Sudan Deserts , the bast regions of the Kalahari , the areas and the people around the Hindukush are yet to be studied properly........I mean , yet to be mapped and know the existence of all types of people and their culture....their heritage and many of whom are yet to know anything about the rest of the world , just as we are ignorant of them .

Answer 12

Discovered by humans, surely there is. Discovered by some form of life, it's possible that all places have been seen or felt by something. I'm almost certain there is a point inside earth that no form of life has ventured to.

Answer 13

I guess there would be no guarantee that we've mapped 100% of the earth. We wouldn't know if there is any place on earth that hasn't been discovered yet because it hasn't been discovered yet.

very interesting question though

Answer 14

If we know about it then it wouldn't be undiscovered

Answer 15

Check this out: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/30...

I couldn't believe this when I saw it!

Answer 16

well i know for a fact that we have  indeed discovered all of earth simple because they software Google Earth  you were talking about runs on a satellite therefore it wont miss anything but ant what time we knew we had discovered earth completely i do not know.