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- Legends of lost continents and civilizations have captivated people throughout time. Philosophers and astronomers like Aristotle and Ptolemy believed that an unknown continent existed in the Southern hemisphere. In the Age of Discovery, renowned explorers like Magellan and Cook searched the Pacific Ocean in vain for a mysterious land they called "Terra Incognita." To this day, ancestral legends throughout Polynesia speak of a lost homeland and a great civilization that disappeared into the sea. Modern science disputes the existence of unknown continents and often dismisses creation myths. But on Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, elders fiercely believe they originate from a continent that sank following a catastrophic upheaval. They call this lost land "Hiva". Now, new scientific evidence points to a remote island chain in Polynesia as the center of an ancient, thriving civilization. For over 400 years these islands have been known to the world as the Marquesas Archipelago, but to the native Polynesians they were once called "The Isles of Hiva". Could the legend of the lost continent of Hiva be true? Using new archaeological, geological and genetic evidence and by unveiling voyaging techniques passed down over centuries, "Lost Continent Of The Pacific" reveals a mesmerizing world of sweeping beauty and human sacrifice, of vast stone cities covered by jungle, water and exploration, cannibals and masterful seafaring navigators who had colonized the largest ocean on Earth centuries before Columbus reached America.
- In 1903, on the island of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas, a syphilitic and alcoholic Frenchman called Paul Gauguin died of a heart attack. At that point nobody realised the incredible impact Gauguin's work was to have on modern art. Art critic and broadcaster Waldemar Januszczak wrote and directed this examination of a man who was not only a great painter but sculptor, wood carver, musician, print maker, journalist and ceramicist. As well as telling the remarkable story of Gauguin's life, Januszczak also celebrates Gauguin's achievements and examines the various accusations of sexual misconduct, familial neglect and racism that are frequently made against him. The film contains many of Gauguin's masterpieces and includes paintings put on show at the Hermitage in St Petersburg which haven't been seen in public since their disappearance during World War II.
- Explorer Edward Salisbury takes an expedition across the Pacific Ocean to such exotic locales as Fiji, Samoa, Papua New Guinea and the New Hebrides Islands, and record the lives of the various natives they encounter there.
- In the Marquesas archipelago, the tattoo was a strong marker of identity. With the arrival of the colonizers, the ancestral custom was banished. Heretu and Teiki founded a tattoo school to pass on this tradition.
- The ghost of French painter Paul Gauguin, whose late works evoked the Marquesas Islands of the colonial era, hovers over this short film, w as residents of the area are interviewed and local contemporary art is featured.
- Marquisian of origin, Ismael is at the dawn of his biggest challenge. After twenty years in France metropolis, far from his archipelago of birth, he prepares to join the Henua Enana, the "Land of the men", one of the archipelago of French Polynesia known today as the Marquesas Islands. His journey between five inhabited islands of the 'Marquises' will be punctuated by a period of spiritual and meditative swimming. it is for this Marquisian an act of faith. An answer to the call of the ocean. During his layovers, he will meet people who are involved in the culture of his community. To settle his debt to the ocean and testify to the Marquesan cultural awakening.
- Kathy is faced with a difficult decision; an uneasy campfire meeting is followed by a heated and emotional tribal council, where the 12th member is voted out.
- Sixteen men and women strive to live on the South Pacific island of Nuku Hiva.
- With her paranoia on the rise, Kathy questions the loyalties of the original Rotu tribe members and an eighth person is voted out.
- Highlights and never-before-seen footage recap the castaways' first 24 days on the island of Nuku Hiva.
- A shocking event brings the castaways to tears; a newcomer joins the tribe and quickly gets immersed in plotting strategy.
- A tribe member decides to takes charge; an island romance heats up; one group dubs itself the "love tribe"; the second person is voted out.
- One tribe is bedeviled by multiple injuries, while the other tribe struggles to keep the camp together; both tribes are soaked by a tropical rain storm.
- The tribe that wins the reward challenge gets to raid the losers' camp; a Rotu tribe member tries to assume power; the Maraamu tribe discovers a new food source.
- Kathy sets her sights on catching and eating a shark, Sean serenades Vee for her 36th birthday and the 10th person is voted out.
- The final survivor from the South Pacific island of Nuku Hiva is revealed.
- Tribal loyalties shift, Rotu's self-proclaimed leader is targeted for ouster and the sixth person is evicted.
- A sudden turn of events inspires new activity at the camps and the fourth person is voted out.
- Tensions begin to rise among the castaways after the two tribes merge into one.
- Two reward challenge winners are treated to a helicopter trip, horseback ride, a feast and a dance celebration.