Beyond the Roaring Forties

Elephant seals are unable to walk on their flippers like fur seals or sea lions, but haul their rear flippers behind then, rippling forward like gargantuan slugs.

– Narrator Ray Henwood

Even penguins were slaughtered for their skins: used for making fashionable lady's muffs.

– Narrator Ray Henwood

Because of their wild shores and unsafe harbours, the Snares have remained miraculously untouched by man. There are no rats, no introduced animals or plants: no predators. Which makes them of tremendous value as rare and unmodified islands, to scientists and conservationists around the world.

– Narrator Ray Henwood