The Land Bridge
A science and culture deep dive into the ice age world of the Bassian Plain in southeastern Australia. The series features interviews with experts and cultural custodians who tell us what is known about this deep past landscape which is now submerged under Bass Strait.
The Land Bridge podcast series is a companion to The Land Bridge digital story website https://thelandbridge.au/.
The project was funded by the Australian Government through the Our Marine Parks grant program.
Program Credits: Host Lucinda Horrocks. Producers Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo. Production company Wind & Sky Productions. Music ‘Look to the Sky’ by Piotr Pacyna.
Episodes
7 episodes
Episode 7: Shipwreck on 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 ...
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38:53
Episode 6: Underwater Worlds
Marine ecologist Associate Professor Neville Barrett has mapped the seabed and surveyed the marine life of the shallow waters of the Beagle Marine Park in Bass Strait. His research helps us understand both the drowned landscape of the Bassian P...
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Episode 6
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Episode 5: Saltwater Women Dreaming
Bunurong Women Aunty Gail Dawson and Tasma Walton talk about women’s spiritual connections to sea and coastal places, the significance of the dreaming, and Bunurong links to the ancient landscape of the land bridge. Episode Credits<...
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Episode 5
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29:15
Episode 4: Peopling the Land Bridge
Dr Stefani Crabtree (Santa Fe Institute/Utah State University) and Distinguished Professor Sean Ulm (ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University) discuss their research using computatio...
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Episode 4
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45:56
Episode 3: Land Bridge is Sea Country
Palawa Woman and Pakana Sea Country Ranger Fiona Maher discusses her people’s deep spiritual and cultural connection to the places of Tayaritja/ the Bass Strait Islands, stretching back to the time of the Land Bridge.To watch parts of Fi...
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Episode 3
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49:23
Episode 2: Deep History of Bass Strait
Palaeoecologist Professor Simon Haberle explains how charcoal and pollen deposits in very old lakes, lagoons and swamps of the Bass Strait Islands paint a picture of the human history of the Bassian Plain stretching back 40,000 years.To ...
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Episode 2
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56:43
Episode 1: Introduction to the Land Bridge
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 i...
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Episode 1
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