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Series exploring Australia's coastline. In this episode, Neil Oliver becomes one of only five people known to have set foot on the isolated island known as Skull Rock.

Neil Oliver becomes one of only five people known to have set foot on the isolated island known as Skull Rock. At Eagle's Nest, explorer Professor Tim Flannery delves into prehistory, revealing his own role in discovering Australia's polar dinosaurs. Historian Dr Alice Garner visits Victoria's notorious Cheviot Beach, reliving the fateful day Australia lost its prime minister to these waters.

Neil travels to Phillip Island, and reveals how an entire town was removed to save the penguins. Landscape architect Brendan Moar tackles the tricky sport of Blo-Karting along the flat sands of Waratah Bay. On the Gippsland Lakes, marine ecologist Professor Emma Johnston hunts for a brand new species of dolphin, and finally Neil takes to the skies with aviatrix Judy Pay for an unforgettable tour of the Bass Strait coast in a fully restored warbird.

50 minutes

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Fri 1 Sep 2017 15:25

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Role Contributor
Presenter Neil Oliver
Presenter Alice Garner
Presenter Brendan Moar
Presenter Emma Johnston
Participant Judy Pay
Series Producer Elissa McKeand
Director Jane Manning

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Take a fascinating journey around the coast of the United Kingdom.