The Story of a Pacific Atoll
Nukumanu is a tiny ring of reef and sand, scarcely a dot on a map of the Pacific. Travellers never go to Nukumanu. But this atoll is the home of 270 souls marooned on a sliver of coral, almost as inevitably as if they had been abandoned there long ago from some pirate ship.
Until recently they have been happy, sustained by the slender resources of the land and the richer harvest of the sea. Today the fragile balance has been broken: the young men have been drawn away to New Guinea or the Solomon Islands, leaving too few hands for village work.

Produced by Australian Island Films
(First shown on BBC2)

(Colour)