FALKLANDS: The Islands With No Reason to Exist | Travel Documentary

In 1833, Charles Darwin came ashore on an archipelago three hundred miles from the nearest continent and found a wolf living there. No land bridge. No forest. No other mammal of any kind. Nobody has ever fully explained how it arrived — and in 2010, a thirteen-year-old boy found a bone that pushed its presence back a thousand years before any human knew these islands existed.

This is the Falkland Islands. Four thousand seven hundred square miles without a single native tree. A capital built for a shipping route that a canal five thousand miles away erased overnight. A population of 3,662 that now holds among the highest incomes per person on Earth.

In this documentary, discover why every reason these islands were ever settled has ended — and what keeps arriving to replace it. The rivers of stone pouring down the valleys. The buried rainforest beneath the capital. Seventy per cent of the world's black-browed albatross on islands where nobody lives. And a falcon that walks up to people and steals from them.

Take a breath. Stay a while.