Enderby Island Expedition 1954

Amazing archival footage of Auckland Islands' Enderby Island as it was in 1954, when French Blue Rabbit and Elephant Seals still lived there, as taken by Zoologist Peter Bull. Peter joined fellow Zoologist Dick Bell and a young technician with the Animal Ecology Section of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) Rowley Taylor (author of Straight Through From London) on a three-man Dominion Museum/DSIR expedition aboard coaster Holmlea, which stopped at Enderby Island en route to Macquarie Island. Video kindly shared by Peter's daughter Barbara Simons who also made the journey to Enderby Island aboard Spirit of Enderby on Heritage Expeditions' 'Beyond Fiordland: New Zealand's Wildest Islands' voyage.