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Polar Post 2005

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Contents March 2005

Editorial; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright. . . . 2 Membership News; Basildon 2004 20/21 November – Palmares; New Subscription Rates for the ASPP . 3
New Russian Drift Station Established in the Arctic Ocean; Post from the Establishment of North Pole 33 4
Post from the 49th Russian Antarctic Expedition; R.R.S. John Biscoe I Covers . . . . 5
The Royal Research Ships in Antarctica – Part 1 – R.R.S. Shackleton . . . . . 6
Terra Nova – request for information concerning the Sailing date from New Zealand in 1913 . . 13
(One of !) my favourite Covers; Byrd Commemorative Postmark . . . . . 14
German Expeditions to the Antarctic:- 1901-03 and 1910-11 – Seals . . . . . 15
BAT and South Georgia Calendar Cards 2005 . . . . . . . . 16
Harold Salvesen’s First Visit to South Georgia . . . . . . . . 17
World War II German Arctic Weather Ship Sachsen . . . . . . . 18
Italian Polar Exploration Flight – 1st Philatelic Exhibition . . . . . . 19
New Issues:- Ross Dependency; British Antarctic Territory . . . . . . 20
Postal Chaos in the South Atlantic . . . . . . . . . 21
New Issues:- South Georgia . . . . . . . . . . 22
WORPEX 2005 – 14 May 2005 . . . . . . . . . . 23
Cover offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 New Tristan Postcards:- TdC 79 – ms Straat Mozambique; TdC 80 – mv. Hyde Park;
TdC 81 – ss. Empire Merganser . . . . . . 29
HMS Endurance – new PPC & Cachet Discovered?? . . . . . . . 30
A visit to the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands – Voyage 2096 . . . . . 31
Falkland Islands & Dependencies, Antarctica, South Atlantic Islands Postal Auction 12th October 2004 . 32

Contents June 2005

Editorial; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post . . . . . . 34
PPHSGB One Day Meeting in London, Saturday 23rd July 2005 . . . . . . 35
Harry Evans entertains, 23rd July 2005 – A Plea for Help! . . . . . . 35
Membership News; Information from the Editor; Obituary (Rear Admiral Geoffrey Hall – Survey Ship Owen) 36
Cover Albums available free of Charge . . . . . . . . . 36
Peter Cranwell’s Web-Site; Members’ Wants; Polar Quest; Tom Crean – Antarctic Explorer – a play . 37
Minutes of the PPHSGB Annual General Meeting held on 26th February 2005 . . . 38
Membership Secretary’s Report 2004 . . . . . . . . . 39
Secretary’s Report 2004; Report of the Editor of Polar Post 2004; Cover Service Account and Report 2004 40
PPHSGB Accounts 2004; Report on the PPHSGB Spring Meeting 26th February 2005 . . . 41
USA Deep Freeze Reconnaissance 1954/55 Antarctic Season – USS Atka . . . . 42
Early use of DEUTSCHLAND Label . . . . . . . . . 45
HMS Endurance Helicopter Flight cover 2004; Unusual South Georgia ‘Binnie’ Card sold in Auction . 46
TAAF (Marion Dufresne OP 2004/3); Note on Copyright . . . . . . 47
Mail from Admiralty Bay 1948; Photographs of Russian Drift Station 32 . . . . 48
First Antarctic Tourist Expedition to the Ross Sea 1968 . . . . . . . 49
The Royal Research Ships in Antarctica Part 2:- R.R.S. Shackleton 1970 –1983 . . . . 50
BAT and The Falkland Islands – New Metal Self-Inking Cancellers; New British Antarctic Cachets . 58
New Issues – TAAF 1st January 2005 . . . . . . . . . 59
Cover offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 New Tristan Postcards:- mv Nairnbank TdC 82; m/s Europa – TdC 83 / Pole 25 . . . . 64

Contents September 2005

Editorial; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post . . . . . . 66
Membership News . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Notes from the Editor:- Signy Island Date Error, Falkland Islands Newsletter, Tristan Da Cunha Articles,
Thames Valley & District Philatelic Federation, Contributors needed . . . . . 67
Report on the London one-day meeting at the BPS, 23rd July 2005 . . . . . 68
Society Auction N° 53 – Results; Society Auction N° 54 – call for lots; PPHS Packet . . . 70
The PPHSGB Visits the Croydon Philatelic Society; 75th Ann. of Byrd’s South Pole Flight – spelling error 71
Gwion (Taff) Davies (Operation Tabarin) – Obituary . . . . . . . 72
Mid-Summer “joke” cover addressed to Taff Davies; Note on Copyright . . . . 73
Falkland Islands; 60th Anniversary of the end of 2nd Word War – Operation Tabarin . . . 74
South Georgia Self-inking Cancellers; London Bombings – a letter from the ASPP . . . 74
Graham Land Rubber Cancellers – Season 1947/48; Maiden Voyage of the RRS John Biscoe (1) . . 75
The DHC-3 Otter from Deception Island . . . . . . . . 76
Marion Dufresne OP 2005/1 . . . . . . . . . . 77
TAAF New Issues; 25th Years Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) – Special German Postmarks . . 78
Have you seen this man? – A Whaling Story in Postcards . . . . . . 78
1929 Byrd Expedition Radiograms . . . . . . . . . 80
Umberto Nobile 1885-1978 – Italian Cinderella commemoratives . . . . . 82
Falkland Islands Dependencies 1D Ship Definitive – Retouches . . . . . . 84
Tristan Da Cunha Resettlement Mail – Another Date . . . . . . . 86
Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting ATCM XXVIII in Stockholm . . . . . 88
The Royal Research Ships in Antarctica Part 3:- RRS Discovery (III) . . . . . 90
The Royal Research Ships in Antarctica Part 4:- RRS Charles Darwin . . . . . 94
Cover offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 New Tristan Postcards:- TdC 83a/Pole 26:- Royal Princess; Pole 27:- Southern Venturer . . 100

Contents December 2005

Editorial; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post . . . . . . 102
PPHSGB AGM and Spring Meeting 2006; Extraordinary Committee Meeting . . . . 103
Revised membership list; Membership News . . . . . . . 103
Northern Lights – Arctic Covers and Postcards . . . . . . . . 104
The Shackleton-Rowett Expedition – Use of GB High Value Stamps . . . . . 105
Duncan Carse at South Georgia 1961 . . . . . . . . . 106
Note on Copyright . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Washington 2006; New Airmail Postal Rates for the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and BAT . . 108
Members’ Future displays . . . . . . . . . . 108
M.V. Theron – A Polar Ship . . . . . . . . . . 109
Early Use on Cover of a South Georgia Magistrate’s Office Cachet . . . . . 111
50 years ago – The Hunting Aerosurveys of 1955/56 and 1956/57 . . . . . 112
50th Anniversary of the Australian Antarctic Expedition 1911; the design of the commemorative 5D
Douglas Mawson Stamp 1961 . . 116
Preparation for the International Geophysical Year – 1st July 1957 to 31st December 1958 . . 119
50 years ago – Operation Deepfreeze I . . . . . . . . . 120
New Issues:- AAT, BAT, Falkland Islands, South Georgia, TAAF . . . . . 122
Cover offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Marion Dufresne – Operation 2005/2 . . . . . . . . . 131
New Tristan Postcards:- ss. Tymeric – TdC 84; ss. Empire Friendship – TdC 85 . . . 132