奇妙岛屿 09

Amazingly,
令人惊奇的是
one single type of finch evolved into 58 different species and all because the birds that normally fill these roles,
单一品种的雀演变成了58个不同的种类，这一切都是因为这些鸟类通常所扮演不同角色
like hummingbirds and woodpeckers, never made it to these islands.
蜂鸟和啄木鸟从未到过这些岛屿
Landfall in the Pacific is a risky business.
在太平洋岛屿上着陆是件冒险的事
Most islands are small, low and rather uniform,
多数岛屿小又低 千篇一律景色
with few lifestyle choices on offer.
生活方式的选择只能退其次
But there is an archipelago that truly bucks the trend.
有座群岛却有雄起的趋势
Two of the largest islands in the Pacific have everything a castaway could dream of.
太平洋上有2座最大的岛屿 其一切都是漂流者的梦想
Here lives a greater diversity of unique island creatures than almost anywhere else in the South Pacific.
这里生活着独有的岛屿生物几乎比南太平洋上任何地方更多样性
Forested valleys, turbulent rivers and glacier-topped peaks，
草木丛生的山谷 汹涌的河流 被冰川覆盖的山峰...
this is New Zealand.
这是新西兰
A thousand miles long and with a mountainous spine rising one-and-a-half miles above the ocean,
新西兰的领土绵延千里，有着许多高过海平面1.5英里的山脉
New Zealand offered a world of possibilities to creatures that found their way here.
新西兰为找到这儿来的许多生物提供了生存下去的可能性