wu jin wang yang 14

Song 无尽汪洋 14
Artist 英语听力
Album BBC南太平洋

Lyrics

[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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