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IW016 - Season 2 Archipelago

Who doesn’t love sailing through an archipelago? We end each season of Island Watch with a wander back through the highlights: how we planned our itinerary, what island eats we ate, and what makes islands so darn watchable!

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IW015 - South Pacific

Happy face spiders, shrieking eels, the incredible origins of the bungee jump: the wonders of the largest body of water on the planet - including its 20,000+ islands - are laid out in the BBC documentary series South Pacific.

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IW014 - Ainsley’s Caribbean Kitchen

Can't get to the Caribbean? No worries, sunshine and deliciousness are on their way to you via the cooking show Ainsley’s Caribbean Kitchen. Did we eat it up? Will you?

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IW013 - Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society

We visit occupied Guernsey during World War II in this fiction-based-on-fact account of how the people of the island tried to make it through those times. And we get an answer to the burning question: What is potato peel pie, really?!

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IW012 - Top End Wedding

Top End Wedding is top-notch: romance, laughs, a road-trip and picture perfect scenery. All that AND a visit to the Tiwi Islands in Australia’s top end?

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IW011 - New Waterford Girl

Cape Breton Island is rated the #1 island to visit in continental North America by Travel & Leisure Magazine, but Mooney Pottie - the New Waterford Girl - can’t wait to hit the road to anywhere else. Just us, or anyone else willing to swap places with her?

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IW010 - Bazodee

Sunny islands, musical rom-com, and Trinidad and Tobago Carnival? It’s Bazodee! Did it leave us dazed, lightheaded and caught up in a magical moment?

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IW009 - The Wilds

The Wilds takes place on a beautiful south Pacific island ... with lots of mystery.

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IW Season 2 Trailer

We're getting ready to launch the good ship Island Watch for all-new season 2 adventures.

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IWmini002 - Travel Man: 48 Hours In Tenerife

"We're here, but should we have come?" asks Richard Ayoade on every Travel Man show. We hang out on Tenerife with the Travel Man as he travels with Lena Dunham in this bonus mini-episode.

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IW008 - Season 1 Archipelago

It's our Archipelago special / season 1 finale: Our island extravaganza where where we solve Island Watch mysteries such as how we choose our islands (and why some missed the cut), what we ate, and why our theme music is so darn catchy.

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IW007 - Small Island

From one “small island” to another, the story of Small Island ranges from Jamaica to England, during and just after WWII.

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IW006 - The Mallorca Files

Why does this show set on a Spanish island have two foreign detectives as leads? Why is the island so important in this series? And where are the Mallorcans?

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IW005 - Kiribati: A Drowning Paradise

Kiribati is an island paradise in extremely clear danger of climate change. This episode of Island Watch is a chance to walk on the beach and contemplate that if things don’t change, there’ll be no beach to walk on.

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IWmini001 - Izzy’s Koala World

We were pulled in for a stop at Magnetic Island to explore the delightful Izzy's Koala World for this special mini-episode. A cast of koalas. A precocious kid. Love and hugs galore.

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IW004 - Moana

Moana sings to the sea from her home island - and the adventure begins.

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IW003 - The Grand Seduction

The Grand Seduction is set in Newfoundland. Sounds sexy, but it’s much more sweet: the tale of a community working together to save itself from collapse.

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IW002 - Cast Away

Tom Hanks carried the 2 hour 23 minute Cast Away almost entirely by himself. But he was never alone. The island was there for him, and the island is what we are here for too!

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IW001 - Gilligan’s Island

We settled in for a three-hour tour. Turned out it took only 25 minutes to watch the first episode/series premiere of Gilligan’s Island. Find out how that went.

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Island Watch Trailer

Do you need a break? Love travelling? Wish you could get to an island right now? Island Watch is here to help!

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