[00:16.53]No other ocean has had a greater impact
[00:19.15]On the lives of so many different animals
[00:21.73]and cultures than the South Pacific,
[00:25.01]and it's all down to its massive size.
[00:33.11]The whole Pacific Ocean is so large,
[00:36.14]you could fit the world's continents inside it
[00:39.00]With nearly enough room for another Africa.
[00:45.81]10,000 miles wide, less than 1% is land.
[00:55.11]Best known are the Hawaiian islands.
[00:57.57]They sit 1,500 miles north of the equator,
[01:01.19]But their story was shaped by the south.
[01:05.53]The South Pacific is made up of thousands of islands
[01:09.69]united by cultures and bound together by ocean currents.