Balloons and Spinifex.

In the 1950s, Giles Weather Station was established in the Australian outback, on the edge of the Gibson Desert, 750 kilometres from Alice Springs, near the border of West and South Australia. The area south of Rawlinson Range had long been home to nomadic Aboriginal people but at that time there we...

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Corporate Author: Kanopy (Firm)
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
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