huo shan lie dao 19

Song 火山列岛 19
Artist 英语听力
Album BBC南太平洋

Lyrics

[00:00.254] Being good long-distance travellers,
[00:02.837] fairy terns island-hopped their way here to French Polynesia.
[00:08.413] The ancestors of these blue lorikeets, however,
[00:11.332] were brought here by some of the earliest Polynesians.
[00:13.895] It could be described as the ultimate honeymoon destination.
[00:19.512] Though the waters off these shores don't always appear too inviting.
[00:25.121] Blacktip sharks have adapted to swim in less than a foot of water.
[00:31.514] They come to these shallows to hunt for smaller fish.
[00:37.519] Like Kingman Reef,
[00:38.726] all signs of these islands' volcanic past have long since disappeared.
[00:43.630] But without it, land could never have got started here.
[00:53.187] In the very west of the Pacific, however,
[00:56.058] volcanoes have had a helping hand.