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Blue Planet II

2017 – Svalbard

Blue Planet II image of a seal swimming underwater beneath ice and kelp forest

Blue Planet II

A follow-up to the award-winning The Blue Planet (2001), this BBC natural history series sees Sir David Attenborough return as narrator, guiding viewers through a sweeping exploration of the world’s oceans. Across seven hour-long episodes, Blue Planet II captures marine life in its natural habitat — including High Arctic sequences filmed in Svalbard, Norway, where polar conditions provide rare access to ocean wildlife and ice-edge environments.

Director: James Honeyborne

Released: 29 October 2017 (BBC One, UK premiere)

Norway locations: Svalbard

Production services on Svalbard provided by: PolarX



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