Across Bass Strait

Clip 1: Bass and Flinders

5 min 34 sec

Taken from the documentary Across Bass Strait (1974)

Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be PG

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Curator’s clip description

In 1798, explorers George Bass and Matthew Flinders discovered what would become known as Bass Strait between mainland Australia and Tasmania.

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