Synopsis
Documentary looking at the remote South Pacific islands, which are inhabited by some of the most curious and precarious examples of life found on earth.
- Programme: South Pacific
- Episode: 01: Ocean of Islands
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2009
- Geography
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