28 Sep 2017

Expedition unlocks 70-million-year-old secrets of Zealandia

From Morning Report, 7:52 am on 28 September 2017

A nine-week voyage to study the lost, submerged continent of Zealandia in the South Pacific has shed new light on how plants and animals may have arrived in this country. The research vessel JOIDES Resolution with a team of 32 scientists from 12 countries aboard including Victoria University's Professor Rupert Sutherland arrived in Hobart yesterday after completing the nine-week expedition. The US National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences programme director Jamie Allan tells us about the experience.