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Things didn t quite go to plan when Australia put its hopes in the Wyatt Earp, a small and wooden-hulled vessel, to lead the nation s first scientific expedition to the frozen continent.
Emily Jateff, from the Australian National Maritime Museum, and maritime archaeologist Dr James Hunter joined Suzanne Hill to explain what went wrong on her attempted voyages in the late 1940s.
Duration: 25min 40sec