Discovery Channel - Wildest Islands Series 2 (2013) Part 5 Falkland Islands: Penguin Paradise

Wildest Islands Series 2

Islands can be home to the most extreme examples of life, and the some of the most dramatic landscapes. Isolated for hundreds of thousands of years, pockets of individuals survive, thrive and adapt to fill all available niches fuelling a rapid development of new species. In the new series of Wildest, viewers will be taken to the Islands Islands of Mystery in the Philippines, a nation of over 7,000 islands forming one of the most ancient archipelagos in the world and will explore Japan's expansive 6,852 islands. Other islands include the breath taking Rivers of Life in Vancouver and the islands around the Amazon River in Brazil.

Part 5: Falkland Islands: Penguin Paradise

Its bleak, battered, and windswept archipelago lies 460 kilometres from the South American mainland. Rugged mountains and an expansive pristine coastline make The Falklands an unspoiled destination for wildlife, notably for one of the world’s most iconic flightless birds, the beloved penguin. The Falklands’ sandy beaches and rolling meadows combine to make it one of the world’s premiere penguin sanctuaries. Over a million breed on the islands each summer. Pandemonium breaks out in a rockhopper penguin colony, sea lions ambush gentoo penguins in the surf, Skuar scavenge carcasses of Megellanic penguins that have washed ashore, and black-browed albatrosses perform their romantic courtship rituals.

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