South Pacific. Castaways / produced and directed by Mark Brownlow ; a BBC / Discovery Channel co-production.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Brownlow, Mark, director, producer.

Cumberbatch, Benedict, 1976- narrator.

Discovery Channel (Firm), production company.

British Broadcasting Corporation, production company.

BBC Worldwide Ltd., film distributor.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--South Pacific Ocean.

Natural history.

Marine animals--South Pacific Ocean.

Marine animals.

New Guinea.

Solomon Islands.

South Pacific Ocean.

Islands of the Pacific.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Nature television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (50 minutes)

Other Title:

Castaways

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : BBC Worldwide, [date of publication not identified]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

This landmark series explores the sheer scale and majesty of the largest ocean on Earth, the isolation of its islands, the extraordinary journeys wildlife and humans have gone through to reach these specks of land, and what happened to both after their arrival. Unimaginably vast, the Pacific is 99% water and only 1% land - you could fit the whole of the world's landmasses into it and still have enough room for another Africa! The distance between these islands can be huge - literally hundreds or thousands of miles - but somehow, life made it there. Isolation does curious things - animals evolve and adapt in strange ways. Witness flesh-eating caterpillars, giant crabs capable of opening coconuts, geckos that can breed without any need of a male, frogs that have never been tadpoles ... Beyond cliched images of swaying palms and idyllic beaches, this is the real, immense and surprising South Pacific.

Participant:

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed November 04, 2021).

OCLC:

1288159383

Publisher Number:

ASP5138755/marc