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  1. Oceans and Climates (1989)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Geography; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 25 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    In late 1982 a surge of warm water swept across the surface of the Pacific depressing the nutrient rich upwelling water of Peru and causing the already over-fished anchovy fishery to collapse completely....

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  2. Broadcasting Live ... From Space

    Date
    29 Oct 2015, 08:21
    Author
    Ben Hodson
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    In March 2014 Channel 4 promised to let viewers share live the experience of being an astronaut on the International Space Station. Dr Michael Allen, Birkbeck, University of London, considers the perils and...

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  3. Imagining the Pacific (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Jeremy Cooper
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A collage of opinion and personal experience about the Pacific region, looking at how people view it now and have done so in the past, and structured around the themes of encounters, war, dynamism,...

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  4. Patrolling the American Lake (1998 Video)

    aka: American Lake, The

    Producer
    Jeremy Cooper
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    With the end of the Cold War there is no longer any clearly identified ‘enemy’ against which the USA can deploy military defences in the Pacific, but the US military presence is still huge, especially in...

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  5. West Mata Submarine Volcano Eruption (2009)

    Subject
    Geography; Geology

    High definition video footage of the underwater explosion of the West Mata volcano, nearly 4,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in an area bounded by Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. Filmed in 2009 by...

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  6. Waves (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Two case studies concerned with waves: 1) describes the classic experiment ‘waves across the Pacific’ in which Walter Munk and colleagues tracked waves across half the globe from Antartica to Alaska; 2)...

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  7. Lord of the East (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Jeremy Bristow
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 45 min., 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive)

    When the Czars founded their new city on the edge of the Pacific they named it Vladivostok (Lord of the East). It was a European spearhead into Europe and flourished during the Cold War but now the Pacific...

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  8. William Hodges: The Art of Exploration (2004)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £19.99

    The painter William Hodges is increasingly seen as a key figure in eighteenth-century British art and in its relationships with the wider world. In an age of colonial expansion Hodges accompanied Captain...

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  9. Anote’s Ark (2018)

    Director
    Matthieu Rytz
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 77 minutes), $295.00

    What if your country was swallowed by the sea? The Pacific island nation of Kiribati is one of the most remote places on the planet, far-removed from the pressures of modern life. Yet it is one of the first...

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  10. Cretaceous Greenhouse, The: A Surfeit of Carbon (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Discusses climate change, reconstructing the deposition environment in the Cretaceous period to show that the amount of carbonate deposited as ploatform limestone in the shallow seas, together with the...

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