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Lost Land of the Volcano

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Lost Land of the Volcano is a three-part nature documentary series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit which follows a scientific expedition to the island of New Guinea. [1]

55 relations: BBC, BBC HD, BBC Natural History Unit, BBC One, Biodiversity, Bird hide, Bird-of-paradise, Bosavi woolly rat, Brahminy kite, Buff-faced pygmy parrot, Caldera, Cave, CNN, Cuscus, Dynastinae, Fruit dove, George McGavin, Global warming, Gordon Buchanan, Helicopter, High-definition television, Infrared, King bird-of-paradise, Laptop, Logging, Lost Land of the Jaguar, Lost Land of the Tiger, Malaria, Megabat, Megapode, Memory card, Mound-building termites, Mount Bosavi, Nature documentary, New Britain, New Guinea, Ornate fruit dove, Painted ringtail possum, Papua New Guinea, Philip Glenister, Raggiana bird-of-paradise, Remote camera, Silky cuscus, Standard-definition television, Stereophonic sound, Steve Backshall, Striped possum, Tavurvur, Time-lapse photography, Tree-kangaroo, ..., Volcano, Wallaby, Zoology, 576i, 720p. Expand index (5 more) »

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC HD

BBC HD was a high-definition television channel provided by the BBC.

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BBC Natural History Unit

The BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) is a department of the BBC which produces television, radio and online content with a natural history or wildlife theme.

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BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Bird hide

A bird hide (or hide, British usage; known as a blind or bird blind in North America) is a shelter, often camouflaged, that is used to observe wildlife, especially birds, at close quarters.

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Bird-of-paradise

The birds-of-paradise are members of the family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes.

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Bosavi woolly rat

The Bosavi woolly rat is a species of rodent that was discovered deep in the jungle of Papua New Guinea in 2009.

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Brahminy kite

The brahminy kite (Haliastur indus), also known as the red-backed sea-eagle in Australia, is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors, such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers.

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Buff-faced pygmy parrot

The buff-faced pygmy parrot (Micropsitta pusio) is a very small green parrot found in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest in New Britain and New Guinea.

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Caldera

A caldera is a large cauldron-like depression that forms following the evacuation of a magma chamber/reservoir.

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Cave

A cave is a hollow place in the ground, specifically a natural space large enough for a human to enter.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Cuscus

Cuscus is the common name generally given to the species within the four genera of Australasian possum.

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Dynastinae

Dynastinae or rhinoceros beetles are a subfamily of the scarab beetle family (Scarabaeidae).

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Fruit dove

The fruit doves, also known as fruit pigeons, are a genus (Ptilinopus) of birds in the pigeon and dove family (Columbidae).

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George McGavin

George C. McGavin is a British entomologist, author, academic, television presenter and explorer.

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Global warming

Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.

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Gordon Buchanan

Gordon Buchanan is a Scottish wildlife filmmaker and presenter best known for Tribes, Predators & Me, Elephant Families & Me, Gorilla Family & Me, The Bear Family & Me, Life in the Snow, Polar Bear Town and the 2018 documentary Animals with Cameras.

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Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by rotors.

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High-definition television

High-definition television (HDTV) is a television system providing an image resolution that is of substantially higher resolution than that of standard-definition television, either analog or digital.

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Infrared

Infrared radiation (IR) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with longer wavelengths than those of visible light, and is therefore generally invisible to the human eye (although IR at wavelengths up to 1050 nm from specially pulsed lasers can be seen by humans under certain conditions). It is sometimes called infrared light.

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King bird-of-paradise

The king bird-of-paradise (Cicinnurus regius) is a passerine bird of the Paradisaeidae (Bird-of-paradise) family.

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Laptop

A laptop, also called a notebook computer or just notebook, is a small, portable personal computer with a "clamshell" form factor, having, typically, a thin LCD or LED computer screen mounted on the inside of the upper lid of the "clamshell" and an alphanumeric keyboard on the inside of the lower lid.

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Logging

Logging is the cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars.

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Lost Land of the Jaguar

Lost Land of the Jaguar is a 2008 British nature documentary series on the fauna of Guyana's rainforest.

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Lost Land of the Tiger

Lost Land of the Tiger is a three-part nature documentary series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit which follows a scientific expedition to the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganisms) belonging to the Plasmodium type.

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Megabat

Megabats constitute the suborder Megachiroptera, and its only family Pteropodidae of the order Chiroptera (bats).

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Megapode

The megapodes, also known as incubator birds or mound-builders, are stocky, medium-large, chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet in the family Megapodiidae.

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Memory card

A memory card, flash card or memory cartridge is an electronic flash memory data storage device used for storing digital information.

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Mound-building termites

Mound-building termites are a group of termite species that live in mounds.

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Mount Bosavi

Mount Bosavi is a mountain in the Southern Highlands province, Papua New Guinea.

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Nature documentary

A natural history film or wildlife film is a documentary film about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concentrating on film taken in their natural habitat but also often including footage of trained and captive animals.

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New Britain

New Britain (Niu Briten) is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago (named after Otto von Bismarck) of Papua New Guinea.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.

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Ornate fruit dove

The ornate fruit dove (Ptilinopus ornatus) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.

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Painted ringtail possum

The painted ringtail possum or moss-forest ringtail possum (Pseudochirulus forbesi) is a species of marsupial in the family Pseudocheiridae.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea (PNG;,; Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.

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Philip Glenister

Philip Haywood Glenister (born 10 February 1963) is an English actor, best known for his role as DCI Gene Hunt on the BBC series Life on Mars and its sequel Ashes to Ashes, Reverend Anderson in Outcast, and Mal Pemberton in Living the Dream.

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Raggiana bird-of-paradise

The Raggiana bird-of-paradise, (Paradisaea raggiana) also known as Count Raggi's bird-of-paradise, is a large bird in the bird-of-paradise family Paradisaeidae.

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Remote camera

A remote camera is a camera placed by a photographer in areas where the photographer generally cannot be at the camera to snap the shutter.

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Silky cuscus

The silky cuscus (Phalanger sericeus) is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae.

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Standard-definition television

Standard-definition television (SDTV or SD) is a television system which uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high- or enhanced-definition.

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Stereophonic sound

Stereophonic sound or, more commonly, stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that creates an illusion of multi-directional audible perspective.

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Steve Backshall

Stephen James Backshall (born 21 April 1973) is a BAFTA-winning English naturalist, writer and television presenter, best known for BBC TV's Deadly 60.

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Striped possum

The striped possum (Dactylopsila trivirgata) is a member of the Petauridae family, one of the marsupial families.

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Tavurvur

Tavurvur is an active stratovolcano near Rabaul, on the island of New Britain, in Papua New Guinea.

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Time-lapse photography

Time-lapse photography is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that used to view the sequence.

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Tree-kangaroo

Tree-kangaroos are marsupials of the genus Dendrolagus, adapted for arboreal locomotion.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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Wallaby

A wallaby is a small- or mid-sized macropod found in Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand.

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Zoology

Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

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576i

576i is a standard-definition video mode originally used for broadcast television in most countries of the world where the utility frequency for electric power distribution is 50 Hz.

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720p

720p (1280×720 px; also called HD Ready or standard HD) is a progressive HDTV signal format with 720 horizontal lines and an aspect ratio (AR) of 16:9, normally known as widescreen HDTV (1.78:1).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Land_of_the_Volcano

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