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South Pacific

Documentary series looking at the remote South Pacific islands

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Series 1 Fragile Paradise

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Broadcast Sun, 27 Sep 2009, 22:55 on BBC HD but not available on BBC iPlayer.

What is being done to preserve the South Pacific and its wildlife?

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Clip: Super Slow Motion Monster Barrel Wave

HD super slow motion video of big wave surfer Dylan Longbottom in a 12 foot monster barrel wave - the first shots of their kind ever recorded.

Clip: Ocean Diaries

A behind the scenes look at how South Pacific was filmed.

Dive Hawaii

Researcher Ellen Husain goes turtle watching with a twist and survives an encounter with a whitetip shark.

Explore the waters off Hawaii

James and the giant parrot

Codfish Island is one of New Zealand's most special wildlife sites. The programme team travelled to the island to film one of its most charismatic inhabitants, the Kakapo.

It may look like an enormous budgie, but it smells like sweet meadows.

Sniff out a parrot with James Mair

Vanuatu

Huw Cordey travels to a remote speck in the South Pacific in search of a giant. A crab so big that its pincers can carve up coconuts.

Join the hunt for the world's largest land crab

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