landfalll in the pacific is a risky business
Most islands are small, low and rather uniform,
with few lifestyle choices on offer.
there is an archipelago that truly bucks the trend.
Two of the largest islands in the Pacific have everything a castaway could dream of.
Here lives a great diversity of unique island creatures than almost anywhere else in the South Pacific.
Forested valleys, turbulent rivers and glacier-topped peaks...
this is New Zealand.
A thousand miles long and with a mountainous spine rising one-and-a half miles above the ocean,
New Zealand offered a world of possibilities to creatures that found their way here.