Pacific Legends Unleashed

The Dutch East India Company in the early 1600s have discovered there is money to be made in the Spice Islands of Indonesia. They send their new ship to the city of Batavia however it all goes wrong on the way there. This episode gives the context and set up to this incredible story.

This is the story of Shackleton and his famous Endurance Expedition. He has ambitions to be the first person to cross Antarctica from one side to the other but not everything goes to plan. In fact nothing goes to plan!

In this episode we focus on Mawson as he heads back down to Antarctica on his Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Things don't go completely to plan as he explores an uncharted coast -- but he does find a pineapple and some oranges, so it's not all bad.

Forget Scott and Amundsen - in this series we unleash two blokes who experience that strange zone beyond the limits of human suffering and endurance, yet live to tell the tale.

In this episode, Ernest Shackleton and Douglas Mawson go for a hoon around Antarctica -- and they like what they see. Sometimes its better to quit while you're ahead, though.

In our final episode of the series, we follow Barry through the deadly jungles of the Central Highlands as he wrestles with the VC, the CIA, and a broken heart -- R.I.P Fatima.