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For animal castaways, finding new land in this vast ocean was a chance in a million.
對于漂流動物而言，在汪洋大海中找到新陸地的機會十分渺小
To beat the odds, luck was needed,
想戰勝困難需要運氣
And this sometimes came from an unlikely source... cyclones.
有時運氣來自意外的因素，颶風
Each year, these powerful tropical storms form over the huge ocean.
在廣闊的海洋上空，每年都會產生強勁的熱帶風暴
The largest can span more than 600 miles.
直徑最大的颶風橫跨900公里
Cyclones are one of the most destructive forces in the South Pacific.
颶風是南太平洋中最毀滅性的力量之一
Yet surprisingly, they have played a critical role in spreading life to the loneliest islands.
然而，令人驚訝的是，它在生命傳播到孤島的過程中扮演著重要的角色
And few islands are more remote than these.
很少有島嶼會比這里更偏僻
Two thousand miles from the nearest continent,
夏威夷離最近的大陸有3000公里遠
Hawaii is the world's most isolated archipelago.
是世界上最偏遠的群島
It is so far flung that less than 500 kinds of animal settled here in 30 million years.
由于太過偏遠，3000萬年以來只有不到500種動物在這里定居
Remarkably, many of these colonisers were carried to Hawaii on the back of cyclones.
顯然多數移民都是被颶風帶到這里的
