Mysterious Australia: The shaping of Australia

Australia, 1989

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Episode of Series “This Land Australia with Ted Egan”.
A journey through the puzzles that nature used as it designed and shaped the Australian continent. The story criss-crosses the continent discovering the world’s oldest living organisms and how sea fossils three hundred million years old came to be on a mountain top hundreds of kilometres from the ocean.

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Credits

co-producer

John Mabey

Rhonda Mabey

Duration

00:50:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1989

Appears in

This Land Australia with Ted Egan

Group of items

This Land Australia with Ted Egan

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ACMI Identifier

324483

Language

English

Subject categories

Animals & Wildlife → Evolution (Biology)

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Australia - Description and travel

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Egan, Ted

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Travel

History → Australia - History

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Evolution (Biology)

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Paleontology

People → Egan, Ted

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Sound

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Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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