Video footage of M11 and M12 team members during take over. Left to right: W. Thiele (M11, Mechanic), C.J Grobler (M11, Meteorologist) and Barry Jackson (M12, Mechanic).
Film footage of the accident at sea in which Petty Officer Bold lost his life. The men were transporting goods to be offloaded on the Marion Island coast and the boats capsized.
Video footage of the M12 team's landing at Marion Island and posing at the welcome sign with a cat. The feline seen was the only animal, amongst the cats brought down, to have been sterilised.
Robert Rand was a biologist and member of the eighth expedition to the islands in 1951/1952. He was the first scientist to explore the area and publish scientific articles about his research there.
South African Gordon Artz narrates the footage of his year as meteorologist at Halley Bay with the British Antarctic Survey, during the International Geophysical Year Expedition of 1959.