The BBC landmark series South Pacific is the ultimate portrait of life in the world’s largest ocean. Over six episodes, the series explores the isolation of its islands, the extraordinary journeys wildlife and humans have taken to reach these remote specks of land and what happened to both after their arrival.

TVB Pearl has secured the premiere broadcast right of “Man Shing Photo Supplies Special : South Pacific” in Hong Kong. The six-episode documentary will be aired every Tuesday at 9:30pm, starting December 7; while the making-of of the documentary “South Pacific Diaries” will be aired shortly afterward on Tuesdays at 10:35pm.

Unimaginably vast, the Pacific is 99% water and only 1% land – you could fit the whole of the world’s landmasses into it and still have enough room for another Africa! It stretches from the heat of the tropics to the sub-Antarctic; coral gardens thrive in its warmest waters – and icebergs float in its coldest. Living in splendid isolation has created a strange and constantly surprising world inhabited by flesh-eating caterpillars, giant crabs capable of opening coconuts, vampire bugs with antifreeze in their veins and many other unique animals, like kakapos, kagus and monkey-tailed skinks. All found nowhere else on Earth.