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[00:15.57]The South Pacific Islands are the most isolated in the world.
[00:25.00]Some are more than 4,000 miles from the nearest continent.
[00:33.43]The odds against any life reaching these islands,
[00:36.81]and flourishing, were once minute.
[00:42.76]But no matter how remote they may be,
[00:45.54]all have been colonised,
[00:50.45]first by plants and animals and then by humans.
[00:58.41]So who were those castaways
[01:00.23]and how did they ever reach these far-flung islands?