Australasian Landforms (Captioned)

This documentary shows the evolution of Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand over the last 2,000 million years ago. Animation is combined with aerial footage of the four main landform regions: The Western Shield, Central Basin, Eastern Highlands and the Island Arc from New Guinea to New Zealand.

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Credits

producer/director

Ken J. Widdowson

Duration

00:22:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1981

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

323994

Language

English

Subject categories

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Australia

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → New Zealand

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Geology

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Landforms

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Natural history

Closed captioning

Documentary

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Geology

Places → Australia

Places → New Zealand

Sound/audio

Captioned

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Australia, 1981

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