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