oh dear attanboroughs wrong, page-6

Didn't catch it so not sure the episode but he's got it right at least one other time.

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The Trials of Life (1990)

The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. And in a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.