Pacific Legends Unleashed

This episode sees violence and insanity take over Batavia's Graveyard - all part of God's plan, of course. Can Jeronimus pull this off, and become God himself?

This episode is mostly about frayed poo rope -- but we also discuss the departure of the Batavia, early mutinous sentiment, and a disaster that no one, except everyone on deck at the time, could have seen coming.

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.