| [00:00.94] | They're generated by underwater landslides and earthquakes |
| [00:04.35] | Known as tsunamis, |
| [00:05.94] | they can flatten coastlines |
| [00:09.20] | Yet these destructive forces may have also brought life to some islands |
| [00:15.24] | As tsunamis strike the coast, |
| [00:17.28] | rafts of vegetation could be cast adrift |
| [00:20.28] | Perhaps animals were caught up in those rafts too |
| [00:24.14] | Could this have been the answer to how these animals made it to Fiji? |
| [00:28.17] | After all, they are the hardest of their kind and could have survived long sea journeys |
| [00:33.18] | Fiji's first animals washed up tens of millions of years ago |
| [00:37.48] | But humans were slow off the block |
| [00:40.32] | They only arrived here three and a half thousand years ago |
| [00:43.43] | Their history remains thin on the ground |
| [00:46.51] | The ruins of Nan Madol are one of only two ancient cities ever found in the Pacific |
| [00:52.29] | With archaeological evidence so scarce, |
| [00:55.15] | the origins of the first people in the central Pacific were hotly debated |
| [00:59.82] | Were they Papuans From New Guinea, |
| [01:02.27] | native Indians from the Americas, |
| [01:04.49] | or another race of people from Asia |
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