In the wake of World War II, in a move closely related to the beginnings of the Cold War, the United States of America decided to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean, on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall archipelago. After the displacement of the local inhabitants, 67 nuclear tests were carried out from 1946 to 1958, including the explosion of the first H-bomb (1952). Bikini Atoll has conserved direct tangible evidence that is highly significant...

In Episode 2: Pacific Conquests, we look at the history of European colonisation of the Pacific. The Spaniards were the first to explore the region following the establishment of the galleon route between the Philippines and Acapulco in Mexico in the 16th and 17th centuries. Thereafter in the 18th and 19th centuries the British and French sought spheres of influence in the Pacific establishing colonies there and embarking on religious crusades to...

This film is an evocative and experimentally cinematic documentation of the swiftly changing lives of the Yolngu people of Ramingining in Australia's Northern Territory.

Meet Stevie the Kiwi, an adventurous creature who will take students on a whirlwind trip to compare and contrast the human geography and landscapes of Australia and New Zealand. The Miniclip includes concepts such as geographical mapping, population, and natural and built environments.

In Australia, during the era of the Stolen Generations, thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and pressed into domestic servitude by the Australian Government. Servant or Slave follows the lives of five such women, stolen from their families and trained to be domestic servants and later forced into slave labour where they endured immense hardship, rape and even torture - coerced into remaining silent or even punished for reporting...

In Australia, Cari dons underwater gear for the dive of her life at the only world wonder visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef.

'The development of inland Australia largely depends on the men who keep open the supply lines and communications - the outback mailmen. In an area larger than Europe, beyond the last roads and railways, their tracks make the map of the inland, become the roads of tomorrow and mark the growth of the nation. This is the story of one of those men and the people he serves...' Across the centre of Australia ran an ancient 300-mile track that, before the...

The Great Barrier Reef as a whole covers an area larger than Great Britain, but amazingly only seven per cent of it is coral reef. The rest is a variety of interconnected habitats including the world's oldest jungle, hundreds of islands, mangrove swamps, mysterious deep-water gardens, vast sand flats and meadows of sea grass - all full of amazing wildlife. A giant deep-water lagoon connects all of these, and many of the creatures that live in it are...

Cari's aboard the Galapagos Explorer en route to Santa Cruz Island. It's home to the Charles Darwin Research Station, where giant sea tortoises are being bred in captivity. There are giant tortoises in the wild too, and Cari wants to see them too. At the end of a long day, she snorkels among Galapagos' friendly creatures.