Jen Bartlett (born Jen Edmondson) was a former tennis player and an Australian filmmaker who worked on nature documentary series such as Survivors of the Skeleton Coast. In 1959 she married a fellow filmmaker

Des Bartlett Norman Desmond Bartlett (2 April 1927 – 12 September 2009) was an Australia filmmaker who worked on nature documentary series' such as ''Survival''. Early life Bartlett was born on 2 April 1927 at Canungra, Queensland, Australia. His fath ...

. The couple lived on the Skeleton Coast, southwest coast of

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, for nine years while filming for the National Geographic. They were jointly awarded the

Royal Geographical Society The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical scien ...

Cherry Kearton Medal and Award The Cherry Kearton Medal and Award is an honour bestowed by the Royal Geographical Society on "a traveller concerned with the study or practice of natural history, with a preference for those with an interest in nature photography, art or cinemato ...

in 1974.

Works

* ''

Flight of the Snow Geese ''Flight of the Snow Geese'' is a nature documentary from the ''Survival Survival, or the act of surviving, is the propensity of something to continue existing, particularly when this is done despite conditions that might kill or destroy it. ...

'' (1972)

References

External links

*
Jen Bartlett's WildFilmHistory bio

Survivors of the Skeleton Coast
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