Episode list

Coast Australia

Northern NSW

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
In much-loved Byron Bay, Neil Oliver unearths the town's surprisingly dirty history. Tim Flannery uncovers one of the most breathtaking adventures of the world's longest recorded unbroken raft journey on the Australian coast.
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South WA

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
Neil Oliver begins this journey in the rigging of the Duyfken, a replica 16th century Dutch ship, the first known European vessel to visit Australia.
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Torres Strait

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
In Australia's extreme North, Neil Oliver arrives on Horn Island to uncover the role of Australia's only indigenous battalion, a World War II fighting force of Torres Strait Islanders.
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Norfolk Island

Sun, Feb 15, 2015
On this lush-green island, 1500kms from the mainland. Neil Oliver wanders amidst penal ruins, as he discovers the legacies of two historic figures; an audacious convict, and the second a reforming commandant.
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Southern New South Wales
Neil Oliver discovers the fatal engineering errors behind Cape St George Lighthouse that cursed Wreck Bay for four decades. In Callala Bay, Tim Flannery uncovers the life-saving properties of seaweeds.
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The Pilbara

Wed, May 06, 2015
Tim Flannery begins this north-western adventure in the remote Montebello Islands, where he finds evidence of British atomic testing from 1952. Neil Oliver boards an iron ore carrier to discover only a tiny margin of error allowed in docking and loading these enormous vessels.
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