But Antarctica is still far behind the countries with the greatest Netflix catalogues; leading the pack is the United States where Netflix was born. The US offers 5680 videos including 4566 movies and 1114 series while Caribbean island nation Martinique doesn’t just have great rum but also 4586 Netflix videos.

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But a host of unlikely countries and territories beat Hong Kong, including global pariah state Zimbabwe with 701, strife-torn Afghanistan with 702 and Iraq with 642 videos.

Australia (where Netflix rolled out in 2014) has nearly four times as many titles in its streaming catalogue despite fierce competition there with other online video services and TV channel catch-up sites.

At launch, the service couldn’t offer some of its own flagship programs produced in-house due to contractual agreements with other streaming or over-the-top online services.

Hong Kong beats neighbours Macau and Taiwan by just a few videos – Taiwan’s Netflix has 584 videos and Macau’s has 575 – while mainland China does not have its own Netflix arm.

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Other countries with fewer videos offered include the Pitcairn Islands, a tiny pacific nation, and the iced-in Svalbard – a territory of Norway and one of the world’s most northern human settlements – has the least with 278 videos (183 movies, 95 series) to keep their minds occupied over the dark winter.

At its launch a Netflix spokeswoman said the catalogue would grow as popularity for the service also grew.

“Netflix will launch more than 30 new Netflix original series in 2016. Most of these will be available to our members everywhere, exclusively on Netflix. Particularly for HK, we have a target to double the content in the library in one year,” she said.