From the rainforests to Cape York (Captioned)

Australia, 1988

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Episode number 2 of Series “Bush tucker man series”.
This video, containing the last four episodes of the series, follows Major Hiddins through the most northern rainforest in Australia at Iron Range, the northern Queensland coastline and the Gulf country, through to the west coast of Cape York where the first known sighting of Australia took place by Europeans.

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Credits

co-producers/directors

Ashley Smith

David Leonard

David Tunnell

Tim Clark

production company

ABC-TV (Australia)

Duration

02:00:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1988

Appears in

Bush tucker man series

Group of items

Bush tucker man series

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

300681

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Aboriginal Australia → Aboriginal Australians - Food

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Queensland

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Rain forests - Australia

Closed captioning

Places → Queensland

Sound/audio

Captioned

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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