ZDF - Australia's Wild Places (2013) Part 5 The Australian Alps

Australia’s Wild Places

Australia's Wild Places is a television show that highlights the oldest and most extreme continent on earth. It focuses on the people and the way they have adapted to the harsh and extreme climate and landscape of this fascinating continent. The series goes to some very wild places and explores the amazing natural world. The episodes cover the plains, mountains, oceans and other important landscapes and the people that inhabit these places. The awesome variety of unusual animals found in Australia is highlighted in this television show and the photography is wonderful and makes viewers want to visit this beautiful place.

Part 5 The Australian Alps

It may come as a surprise to non-Australians that the island continent renowned for its flat plains and searing deserts has snow-capped mountains at all. The peaks of the Australian Alps national parks are not tall, but they’re old. Their geological history stretches back over 600 million years when sediments were lain down on the floor of a shallow sea. At 2,228m above sea level, Mt. Kosciuszko is the highest mountain on the continent and its slopes harbour rare and unusual species adapted to the harsh conditions. Biologist Linda Bloom has spent 40 years here studying the rare Mountain Pygmy Possum.

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