The Nature of Things

Season 41, Episode 11

Episode Title: Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Penguin Shores

Air Date: 2001-01-24

Overview:

PENGUIN SHORES is part five of the magnificent six-part BBC series Lost Worlds, covering the amazingly diverse topography of South America, and its remarkable denizens. The world's longest mountain chain stretches from the tropics to the massive Patagonian Ice Sheet of sub-Antarctica. Its icy power dominates the lives of the hardy animals that dare to call it home, making living there one of nature's greatest challenges.