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Polar Post 2006

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Contents March 2006

Editorial; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post . . . . . . 2
PPHSGB One-Day London Meeting, July 22nd 2006; Membership News; Obituary – Gale J. Raymond. 3
The Discovery Investigations 1925 -1951 . . . . . . . . 4
New Postcards from the Belgian Polar Exploration Society . . . . . . 14
Operation Deepfreeze I – Polar Post, December 2005, pages 120-121 (extra information) . . 14
A Letter written by Ernest Shackleton . . . . . . . . . 16
Another Crawford visit to Tristan da Cunha – September 2005 . . . . . . 17
Postcard from Tristan Da Cunha; PPHSGB Live and Postal Auction N° 55 – 22nd July 2006 . . 19
Auction Report – Falkland Islands & Dependencies + Antarctica Postal Auction N° 12, 4/11/2005 . 20
First Commercial Voyage through the North West Passage – SS Manhattan August – October 1969 . 21
The Fifth Edition of the specialised Stamp Catalogue of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies . . 23
Classic Card Corner – The Missing Link . . . . . . . . 24
A Further 2nd German Antarctic Expedition Postcard . . . . . . . 25
New Issues:- The Falkland Islands (Penguin Postage Dues) . . . . . . 26
New Issues:- BAT December 2005 Issues – FDC liner notes . . . . . . 27
New Issues:- Ross Dependency, November 2005 . . . . . . . 31
New Issues:- TAAF 1st January 2006 . . . . . . . . . 32
Cover offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Spitsbergen – request for information; Note on Copyright . . . . . . 35
New Tristan Postcards:- TdC 86:- HMT Queen of Bermuda; TdC 87:- mv. Glenbank . . . 36

Contents June 2006

Editorial; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post . . . . . . 38
Chairman’s Message; Minutes of the AGM for 2005 held on Saturday 25th February 2006 . . 39
Secretary’s Report for 2005 . . . . . . . . . . 40
Accounts for 2005; Cover Service Account for 2005; Membership Secretary’s Report for 2005 . . 41
Report of the Editor of Polar Post for 2005; Librarian’s Report for 2005; Members’ Wants . . 42
PPHSGB Spring Meeting at Philatex 25th February 2006; SWINPEX 2006 and 2007 . . . 43
Specialised Catalogue of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies – 5th Edition – a review . . . 44
Membership News; Marion Dufresne – Operation 2005/3 . . . . . . 45
60 Years Ago – Victory Day – Saturday 8th June 1946 . . . . . . . 46
Auction Reports – Harmers 20/12/05 and 06/04/06; Cherrystone Auctions 12/01/06, Charles Leski 03/06 49
Note on Copyright . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Classic Cover/Card Combined Corner . . . . . . . . . 55
The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58, Part 1 – 1956. . . . . 56
New Issues – Bulgaria, Tristan Da Cunha, Argentina, BAT, South Georgia & SSI . . . 60
Cover/Postcard Offers from other Organisations and Societies . . . . . . 65
New Port Lockroy Canceller and Cachets; First Day Cancels at Halley 22nd December 2005 . . 66
Obituaries – Norman Vaughan 23rd December 2005 and John Heap, 8th March 2006 . . . 67
Programme for the Polar Postal History Society Meeting – Saturday 22nd July 2006. . . . 68
PPHSGB – Cover Offer Service Suspended . . . . . . . . 68

Contents September 2006

P.P.H.S. London Autumn Meeting 28th October 2006 . . . . . . . 69
Editorial; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post . . . . . . 70
Society Cover Offers Reinstated; Message from the Chairman; Membership News . . . 71
The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58, Part 2 – 1957/58 . . . . 72
Further William Scoresby and RRS Discovery II Covers . . . . . . . 80
A further Letter Written by Ernest Shackleton; Note on Copyright . . . . . 82
Byrd Lecture and Welcome Home Covers . . . . . . . 83
New Port Lockroy Self-Inking Canceller – Earlier Date; Signy & Halley 1st Day Cancellers . . 85
Tristan Da Cunha – New Issue – 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of TdC parts 3 and 4 . . 86
Tristan Da Cunha Post Office News N° 1 – A policeman came to call . . . . . 87
Tristan Da Cunha Post Office News N° 2 – (Account details for bank transfers) . . . . 88
“The h’Admin, he was a cunning fellow” – A personal view of the RMS St Helena visit to celebrate
the 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of Tristan da Cunha . 89
Norman Vaughan – Postcard . . . . . . . . . . 91
Society Cover Offers . . . . . . . . . . . 92
The Arctic Islands of Canada . . . . . . . . . . 96
New Issues – Greenland, Norway (Svalbard), Monaco, Russia, Taiwan, Australia, AAT, TAAF . . 97
Kiwipex 2006, Christchurch, New Zealand . . . . . . . . 100
French Scientific Expedition to Spitzbergen 1969 . . . . . . . 101
New Tristan Postcards: TdC88: rms Andes; TdC89: ss Federico ‘C’; TdC 90: M/V Cloverbank . . 102
Report on the One Day Meeting at the BPT Headquarters on Saturday 22nd July 2006 . . . 103
50th Anniversary of the American Society of Polar Philatelists (ASPP) . . . . . 103
Books: Whaling in the Falkland Islands Dependencies 1904-1931; Spitzbergen Cruise Mail 1890-1914 . 104

Contents December 2006

Editorial; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post . . . . . . 106
Annual General Meeting and London Meeting 3rd February 2007 . . . . . 107
Message from the President; Chairman’s Message . . . . . . . 108
Geoffrey Moir – GSM obituary and article – sale of collection; Membership News . . . 109
Members’ Wants; Members’ Future Displays . . . . . . . . 109
Electronic addendum to the book “Postmarks and Cachets of the B.A. Bases and South Georgia”. . 109
Merry Christmas from the Antarctic . . . . . . . . . 110
Letters to the Editor concerning Dorothea Plutte . . . . . . . 115
Classic Card Corner – Postcards and the Psyche of the Edwardians . . . . . 116
s.s. Fitzroy cachet; Who was Frederick Jones? . . . . . . . . 117
Imperforate Sheet of the 10p South Georgia Stamp issued 5th January 1972 . . . . 117
Quail Island (Quarantine Island); Note on Copyright . . . . . . . 118
Operation Deepfreeze II . . . . . . . . . . 119
Auction Results – Arctic Material . . . . . . . . . 124
TAAF News . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
The Saga of the Saga Rose . . . . . . . . . . 128
New Postage Rates for the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and BAT . . . . . 129
New Issues – South Georgia (Save the Albatross; Communications; Mapping) . . . . 130
Harmers Auction 26th July 2006 – two interesting covers – RYS Quest at South Georgia and TAE 1957/58 131
New Issues – BAT (Seals; Penguins II) . . . . . . . . . 132
Cover offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
New Tristan Postcards:- TdC91/Pole 27:- s.s. Slava . . . . . . . 138
E-Book review – “Exploring the North polar Regions” portrayed by postcards . . . . 139
Book review – “Airships in the Arctic” . . . . . . . . . 139
Draft Programme for the PPHSGB Residential Weekend in Cambridge 14th to 16th September 2007 . 140