[00:04.10]millions of years ago
[00:05.80]these powerful reptiles had already begun their push eastwards
[00:17.60]for any animal castaway
[00:20.50]first hurdle would have been the 60-mile stretch of water
[00:24.70]that separetes New Guinea from the next group of island-theSolomons
[00:37.60]instead of one dominating island,like New Guinea
[00:41.00]the Solomon are made up of almost a thousand smaller jewels
[00:44.66]scattered along a 900-miles chain.
[00:55.88]all these islands erupted out of the sea and were ripe for colonisation