The Land Bridge
Episodes
Episode 7: Shipwreck on the Land Bridge
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
Episode 6: Underwater Worlds
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marine ecologist Associate Professor Neville Barrett has mapped the seabed and surveyed the marine life of the shallow waters of the Beagle Marine Par...
Episode 5: Saltwater Women Dreaming
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bunurong Women Aunty Gail Dawson and Tasma Walton talk about women’s spiritual connections to sea and coastal places, the significance of the dreami...
Episode 4: Peopling the Land Bridge
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Stefani Crabtree (Santa Fe Institute/Utah State University) and Distinguished Professor Sean Ulm (ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Envir...
Episode 3: Land Bridge is Sea Country
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Palawa Woman and Pakana Sea Country Ranger Fiona Maher discusses her people’s deep spiritual and cultural connection to the places of Tayaritja/ the...
Episode 2: Deep History of Bass Strait
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Palaeoecologist Professor Simon Haberle explains how charcoal and pollen deposits in very old lakes, lagoons and swamps of the Bass Strait Islands pai...
Episode 1: Introduction to the Land Bridge
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 seaf...