| [00:00.37] | Specks of land were just as vital to our shipwrecked survivors. |
| [00:05.29] | Not that they were easy to find. |
| [00:08.19] | Only 1% of the Pacific is land. |
| [00:10.94] | On 20th December, |
| [00:13.31] | the sailors arrived on the Pitcairn Islands, |
| [00:16.60] | over 2,000 miles from where they were first shipwrecked. |
| [00:19.93] | Described by them as "a paradise before our very eyes", |
| [00:24.31] | the starving sailors quickly set to work on the island's wildlife. |
| [00:28.83] | But the good times were not to last. |
| [00:31.37] | Within a week, they had eaten all its seabirds. |
| [00:35.67] | Leaving three of their group behind on this now impoverished island, |
| [00:40.20] | the others chose to take their chances back at sea. |
| [00:43.76] | They could have ridden the prevailing winds to the nearby Society Islands, |
| [00:48.34] | but they were terrified of cannibals. |
| [00:50.42] | Instead, they struck out east, |
| [00:52.71] | to the distant shores of South America, |
| [00:54.75] | two and a half thousand miles away, |
| [00:57.02] | and back into the dreaded Desolate Region. |
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