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Tasmania Switzerland Of The South

The Pacific Story · December 1, 1946 · 29 min · 4,214 words

The transcript of “Tasmania Switzerland Of The South”, an episode of The Pacific Story first broadcast December 1, 1946. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Pacific Story plays The Pacific Story free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. This is the story of the Pacific, the drama of the millions of people who live around this greatest sea, where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of keeping the peace.

This is a documentary account of the situation in the Pacific, of the men and events which are today influencing world affairs for generations to come. The past mania, Switzerland of the south. It was right here at Ezerhortnik that it happened.

The prisoners and they were bad ones and escaped from the penis settlement at Fort Arthur. They came this way toward the neck. Who is there? The whole peninsula was alive with military guards and blood house.

And the beings of those animals these days with something fierce. Those prisoners were desperate men, and they were bound that they were not going to be taken. Well said, the showdown came right here at the Eagle Hothmett.

And when it was all over, the guards marched to prison, back to the chateos and the fort after. And some people do say they can still hear those flood hound stains today. The standard Eagle hot mech on the ventular of Tasmania, and you look for the old powder magazine, a port-author.

The East Island has seen some thrilling sights. You remember that the Dutch navigator, Abel-John-Soon-Tazman landed here, and that the whole island was named for him. Look at those monkeys, will you? You look up toward the mountain, and you begin to realize why this fabulous island, 150 miles off the southeast corner of Australia,

Once used only as a penal colony because of its isolation, is now famous in its own right for its mineral and agricultural riches. It could seem here said, right, cause this which lind of the south.

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