[00:00.37]Specks of land were just as vital to our shipwrecked survivors.
[00:05.29]Not that they were easy to find.
[00:08.19]Only 1% of the Pacific is land.
[00:10.94]On 20th December,
[00:13.31]the sailors arrived on the Pitcairn Islands,
[00:16.60]over 2,000 miles from where they were first shipwrecked.
[00:19.93]Described by them as "a paradise before our very eyes",
[00:24.31]the starving sailors quickly set to work on the island's wildlife.
[00:28.83]But the good times were not to last.
[00:31.37]Within a week, they had eaten all its seabirds.
[00:35.67]Leaving three of their group behind on this now impoverished island,
[00:40.20]the others chose to take their chances back at sea.
[00:43.76]They could have ridden the prevailing winds to the nearby Society Islands,
[00:48.34]but they were terrified of cannibals.
[00:50.42]Instead, they struck out east,
[00:52.71]to the distant shores of South America,
[00:54.75]two and a half thousand miles away,
[00:57.02]and back into the dreaded Desolate Region.
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