Thanks for the comments.
Animation is 1560 frames total. Although originally planned for 25 fps (it's a PAL widescreen project, frame size is 1050x576), I am thinking of slowing it down by about 20%.
Test footage uploaded is slowed down. Final decision will be determined how it plays out with the narration. It will probably clock in at 45 to 55 seconds in the end is my guess.
Each frame is taking about 3 hours 14 minutes to render; with each frame having huge tree populations (although I could of removed some populations where there is no island visible of course, but final animation sequence is just running without taking that into consideration on two computers.)
Like I mentioned though, old_blaggard is the main one responsible for making this; I did the flyover in Campath in v0.9.