CHRISTMAS, NORFOLK & THE BASS STRAIT ISLANDS
Duration: 43 minutes

This episode of the ISLANDS OF AUSTRALIA series takes the viewer on a sweeping journey from Norfolk Island, a tiny speck of land in the Pacific Ocean, via the southern Islands of Bass Strait, in the roaring forties, to Christmas Island, deep in the Indian Ocean. The three locations of this program are varied and each in their own way, magnificent. Norfolk Island, home to the descendants of the famous "Mutiny on the Bounty", is a rather different south sea island. No swaying coconut palms, instead the landscape is characterised by the famous Norfolk Pine trees, and it’s rolling green hills are more reminiscent of the northern hemisphere than the Pacific. The Bass Strait Islands have a more rugged untouched beauty. In this program some of the fascinating characters who live there share with the viewer something of their "island life". From battling for the giant crayfish from a pitching boat, to battling to preserve an endangered goose, they have a fascinating tale to tell. Way out in the Indian Ocean, a thousand kilometres north of Western Australia, lies the third island in this program. Christmas Island has long been a phosphate mining centre, now it’s focus has become it’s magnificent rain forest and extraordinary wildlife. In the clear Indian Ocean waters the underwater cameras take the viewer on to see huge fan corals and myriad colourful fish, as well as discovering the extraordinary natural forces which have produced this unusual island.

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