Popular history author Adam Courtenay shares the story of the sailing ship the Sydney Cove which crashed in Bass Strait, on the remnants of the land bridge, in 1797. Seventeen of the stranded crew were compelled to cross Bass Strait and walked 600 miles to Sydney and, in the process, walked their way into Australian history. Adam Courtenay’s book on the Sydney Cove ‘Three Sheets to the Wind’ is published by ABC books and is available at all good bookstores and online: https://www.harper...
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Popular history author Adam Courtenay shares the story of the sailing ship the Sydney Cove which crashed in Bass Strait, on the remnants of the land bridge, in 1797. Seventeen of the stranded crew were compelled to cross Bass Strait and walked 600 miles to Sydney and, in the process, walked their way into Australian history. Adam Courtenay’s book on the Sydney Cove ‘Three Sheets to the Wind’ is published by ABC books and is available at all good bookstores and online: https://www.harper...
Welcome to the story of the Land Bridge. Many thousands of years ago, during the last ice age, falling sea levels exposed the shallow Bass Strait seafloor as land. This episode explains what can be expected in this series and also introduces Bass Strait and its ancient existence as the Bassian Plain. A full introduction is also freely available to read at the link https://thelandbridge.au/introduction/. This program is part of the Land Bridge digital story project of film and mult...
The Land Bridge
Popular history author Adam Courtenay shares the story of the sailing ship the Sydney Cove which crashed in Bass Strait, on the remnants of the land bridge, in 1797. Seventeen of the stranded crew were compelled to cross Bass Strait and walked 600 miles to Sydney and, in the process, walked their way into Australian history. Adam Courtenay’s book on the Sydney Cove ‘Three Sheets to the Wind’ is published by ABC books and is available at all good bookstores and online: https://www.harper...
