in the late 1980s there was a seafaring journey of over 1000 nautical miles in open outrigger ‘jukung’ canoes by nine crews, who sailed from bali to darwin across the timor sea. crews were from new zealand, australia, usa, england, japan, france, germany, the netherlands and indonesia. this was a three-month expedition masterminded by bob hobmann, filmed and made into a documentary called "passage out of paradise"; it was featured by the national geographic society as "the great jukung race". it was the first ever expedition of this kind, following purported austronesian sailing routes in craft dating 7,000 years old.