Alone Australia's latest season filmed in Finland's Lapland

The latest season of the popular survival reality show "Alone Australia" ventured into the remote wilderness of Finnish Lapland for its fourth production cycle. Ten contestants were transported to the Arctic region to test their survival skills entirely on their own, without any external assistance.

Broadcaster SBS announced the filming location earlier in July. The Australian Embassy in Finland also shared news of the production on social media. The season's two-hour premiere aired in Australia last Wednesday, drawing an audience of 227,000 viewers, according to TV Tonight. Previous seasons were filmed in Australia and Tasmania.

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We moved the survivors, who are from the Southern Hemisphere, to the Northern Hemisphere to see what happens.

Contestants in the Finnish Lapland season faced unique challenges, including encounters with local predators and the critical task of finding sustenance in an environment where misidentifying a mushroom could prove fatal. Executive producer Riima Daher told the Sydney Morning Herald that this season was conceived as a complete inversion of the show's previous concepts.

"We moved the survivors, who are from the Southern Hemisphere, to the Northern Hemisphere to see what happens," Daher explained. She described the contestants' struggles with finding food, especially as winter approached and reindeer grazed nearby, though they were forbidden from hunting them. "It was like watching a Big Mac walk by," Daher quipped, illustrating the abundance of potential food that remained inaccessible.

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It was like watching a Big Mac walk by.