Two animated brains move over a line maze. Two chomping halves of an animated pink brain join together. Text on banners over the brain reads, “Hungry Brain!”

[Upbeat music plays]

A voice says, HUNGRY BRAIN!

[Water splashes, upbeat music plays quietly]

An animated woman stands on a ship. Her curly orange hair is pulled away from her face in a ponytail. She wears a bright green shirt and white pants. A red bandana wrapped around her head. She holds a steering wheel in her hand. A colourful parrot perches on a spoke on the wheel.

The orange-haired woman says, AHOY, MATEY!
WE BE SAILING ON THE INDIA OCEAN
VIA THE FAMOUS SEA ROUTE TO INDIA.

SINCE THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY,
EUROPEAN EXPLORERS
HAVE TAKEN THIS ROUTE TO
LOOK FOR SPICE.

[Parrot squawks]

The parrot asks, TO LOOK FOR FRIES?

[Water splashes]

The orange-haired woman says, NO, ME HEARTY!
SPICE. CUMIN, CURRY,

NOT FORGETTING PEPPER.
GET A BEAK FULL OF THIS, MATEY.

[Sniffing, parrot sneezes]

The orange-haired woman says,
HERE'S THE TOP ON THE
INDIAN OCEAN. ALL ABOARD!

White text reads, “Here’s the top on the Indian Ocean.”

A white number five appears in the centre of a red and white striped life ring. A ship with tall sails floats on water behind it.

[Ding]

[Upbeat music plays]

A narrator says, NUMBER FIVE:
ITS NAME COMES FROM A COUNTRY.

THE INDIAN OCEAN TAKES
ITS NAME FROM INDIA,
A COUNTRY JUST
NORTH OF THE OCEAN.

A red arrow shows the location of India on a map.

[Whoosh, dings]

The narrator continues, LOCATED IN THE
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, THE OCEAN IS
BORDERED BY THE EAST AFRICAN COAST,
SOUTHERN ASIA, AND AUSTRALIA.

TO THE SOUTH, IT EXTENDS
TO THE ANTARCTIC,
ALTHOUGH, THERE IS
NO CLEAR BOUNDARY
WITH THE SOUTHERN OCEAN.

[Dings, whoosh]

A white number four appears in the centre of a red and white striped life ring. A ship with tall sails floats on water behind it.

[Ding]

A second narrator says,
NUMBER FOUR:
THE BABY OF THE OCEANS.

[Whooshing, chiming]

The second narrator says, THE INDIAN
OCEAN IS THE LAST OCEAN TO HAVE
FORMED ON THE PLANET.

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY
MILLIONS YEARS AGO, GONDWANA,
AN ANCIENT CONTINENT,
SPLIT A PART BY THE
MOVEMENT OF TECTONIC PLATES.

LATER, THE PLATES BECAME
COUNTRIES AND CONTINENTS.

SO, THE WATER IN-BETWEEN
EVENTUALLY BECAME
THE INDIAN OCEAN THAT
WE KNOW TODAY.

A white number three appears in the centre of a red and white striped life ring. A ship with tall sails floats on water behind it.

[Upbeat music continues]

The first narrator says,
NUMBER THREE: IT IS MEDIUM SIZED.

THE INDIAN OCEAN COVERS ABOUT
SEVENTY-FIVE MILLION SQUARE
KILOMETRES, WHICH IS ABOUT ONE-FIFTH
OF THE AREA OF ALL THE OCEANS COMBINED.

[Whirring]

The parrot shouts, YO-HO! WHOA!

The first narrator continues,
BUSY MARITIME TRAFFIC SAILS
BACK AND FORTH ACROSS IT,
CONNECTING AFRICA,
ARABIAN PENINSULA,
ASIA, AND AUSTRALIA.

[Water sloshes]

The orange-haired woman says,
SHIVER ME TIMBERS,
THAT SHIP BE STUFFED WITH
SO MUCH TREASURE
SHE'S FIT TO CAPSIZE.

The parrot says, SHE'S FILL UP WITH FRIES!

The orange-haired woman says, BETTER
THAN THAT, MATEY. KETCHUP AND MAYO, TOO.

The parrot says, YUM. FULL SPEED AHEAD.

A white number five appears in the centre of a red and white striped life ring. A ship with tall sails floats on water behind it.

[Upbeat music continues]

The second narrator says,
NUMBER TWO: THE SUEZ CANAL.
IN OLDEN TIMES, SHIPS DEPARTING
FROM EUROPE HAD TO GO
ALL THE WAY AROUND AFRICA.

A ship on a map moves around Africa.

[Pop, quiet slide whistle]

The second narrator continues, NOWADAYS,
THEY USE THIS SUEZ CANAL, ONE HUNDRED
AND NINETY- THREE KILOMETRES IN LENGTH,
WHICH WAS DUG THROUGH EGYPT.

Text beside the canal on a map reads, “One hundred and ninety-three kilometres.”

The second narrator says, SHIPS ARE
NOW ABLE TO TAKE THIS SHORTCUT,
LINKING THE MEDITERRANEAN
TO THE INDIAN OCEAN VIA THE RED SEA.

A white number one appears in the centre of a red and white striped life ring. A ship with tall sails floats on water behind it.

The first narrator says, NUMBER ONE:
IT IS INFLUENCED BY THE WINDS.

[Ding, wind blows, water splashes]

The first narrator says, IN THE INDIAN
OCEAN, SURFACE CURRENTS
ARE CONTROLLED BY WINDS.

IN THE SOUTH, WINDS MAKE THE
WATER ROTATE ANTI-CLOCKWISE,
SO THE SURFACE CURRENTS BETWEEN
AUSTRALIA AND AFRICA FORM A
HUGE CIRCLE.

[Water splashes]

The orange-haired woman says,
WELL, BLOW ME DOWN.

I BE THINKING THE BEST
TREASURE WE FOUND IS THIS
LOVELY HOT DRINK FROM
INDIA YOU GAVE ME.

IT BE DELICIOUS!
WHAT'S IT CALLED?

The parrot says, UH, TEA?

The orange-haired woman says, ARGH. TEA.

[Upbeat music plays]

End Credits:
Narration: Helen Moorhouse. Iain O’Connor.

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Logo: AQPM.