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Polar Post 2009

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Contents March 2009

Committee; Deadline for June Polar Post; Dates for your Diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 2
Chairman’s Message; Membership News; Change of Live Auction Timetable 3
60th Anniversary of Operation Sinbad – Part 1 – The Tragedy and the Flight 4
Cape Denison 8 January 2009 – Special Commemorative Limited Edition Cover and Postmark 8
Essence of Polar Philately – a Review; Members’ Wants 9
The Royal Research Ships in Antarctica Part 6 – RRS John Biscoe 1 1947-1956 10
Marion Dufresne Operation 2/2008; Germany’s Love Aff air with Polar Bear Cubs 12
Correction to the Obituary of Betty Biggs 12
Norway Station cover sent via Halley Bay; ‘O.A.T. F.B.’ Cachet 13
The 2nd French Antarctic Expedition of Jean-Baptiste Charcot – Part 2 14
HMS Endurance Cover Returns; Cover Corner 19
The Tristan Venture 1948 – an Update; Recent Registered Cover from Tristan Da Cunha 20
New Tristan/Polar Postcards – TdC102 ss Rowanbank 21
M/V Ushuaia Runs Aground; Indexes for Polar Post 21
New Issues – Russia; Global Warming Omnibus; BAT 2008/09 New Issue Dates 22
New Issues TAAF – 9th February 2008 to 1st January 2009 22
New Issues – Falkland Islands, September to December 2008; Portugal IPY; Further IPY New Issues 24
New Issues – Argentina; Ross Dependency – The British Antarctic Expedition 1908/1909 25
New Issue – Australian Antarctic Territory – South Magnetic Pole 1909-2009 26
New Issue background text – BAT – Centenary of Naval Aviation 27
Swinpex June 2009 – Joint Meeting of PPHSGB and FIPSG 28

Contents June 2009

Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 30
Chairman’s Message; Cambridge Residential Weekend 2009; Membership News 31
“BUT” – Centenary of the Attainment of the North Pole by Robert E. Peary 32
† Captain Peter Jackson, Master of RMS QE2 during the Falklands Confl ict 45
RRS James Cook visits King Edward Point, South Georgia; A Chronology of Antarctic Exploration: a Synopsis
of Events and Activities until the International Polar Years, 2007 to 2009” 46
M/V Ocean Nova runs aground in Marguerite Bay; † Murdo (Jock) Tait 46
† Fritz Koerner – 3rd July 1932 to 26th May 2008 47
New Issues – Monaco 47
New Issue – South Georgia & SSI – Preserve the Polar Regions 48
New Issues – AAT, New Zealand, Uruguay, Greenland 49
New Issues – Preserve the Polar Regions and Glaciers – 34 Countries 50
Spink-Shreves Auction 31st January 2009 54
Postal Rates for the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and BAT eff ective from July/August 2008 56
New Postal Rates for Tristan da Cunha – 2009; “Essence of Polar Philately” – 1st Printing sold Out! 56
New Website for Arge Polarphilatelie eV 56
New Tristan/ Polar Postcards TdC103/Pole 35: r/s Africana; TdC104/Pole 36 mv Sarah Baartman 57
Mawson’s Huts Foundation – Conservation Expedition to Cape Denison 2008-09 58
French Ships’ Movements (Marion Dufresne; Albatros; L’Astrolabe) 59
60th Anniversary of Operation Sinbad Part II:
The Return Flight to Australia and the Mail that was carried to and from Macquarie Island 60
Antarctic Memory Commemorative Pack 65
The Antarctic Postman visits Signy, King Edward Point and Bird Island – 14.11.2008 to 3.12.2008 66
Cover Corner – Chile Eduardo Frei; Tristan da Cunha; Port Lockroy; Löhne, Germany; Japan 67
Editorial; Chairman’s Review 2008 68
Minutes of the AGM of the PPHSGB – Date 28th February 2009 69
Society Accounts 2008; Report of the Treasurer 2008; Hon. Secretary’s Report 2008 70
Reports of the Editor of Polar Post and the Membership Secretary 2008 71
Report on the PPHSGB Spring Meeting 28th February 2009 at Philatex, London 72
PPHSGB at SWINPEX 2009 – Saturday 13th June 2009 – 10 am to 4.30 pm 72
PPHSGB at MidPex – Saturday 11th July 2009 – 10 am to 5 pm 72

Contents September 2009

Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 74
Chairman’s Message; New PPHSGB Internet Site; Membership News 75
Report on the Joint Meeting of the FIPSG and PPHSGB at Swinpex, Saturday 13th June 2009 76
Antarctic Postcards 1898 – 1958 Continuing Project 76
Registered Items to and from the Shackleton Nimrod Expedition 1908/09 76
Escales Polaires, Mâcon 27 – 29 March 2009 77
Base Z, Halley Bay – A letter from Gordon Bowra to E. Jagger dated 10th December 1964 78
60th Anniversary of Operation Sinbad, the fl ight of RAAF Catalina A24-104 to Macquarie Island
on 4th August 1948: Part III The Mail that was carried from Macquarie Island 82
FS Polarstern – Antarctic 2009 86
Misplaced Overprints on the South Georgia Decimal Defi nitive Series of 1971 86
1907 – 1909 British Antarctic “Nimrod” Expedition Part 5 – Four Lots from the
Spink Shreves Galleries Auction 31st January 2009 87
New Issue – BAT – Explorers & Ships Defi nitive Series – descriptive text 88
New Issues – Falkland Islands – Charles Darwin & Naval Aviation; Belgium PPR&G ATM Stamps 91
New Issues – Australia and the Norfolk Islands; Algeria PPR&G 91
“Unoffi cial” Mawson Hut Restoration Fund Vignette 91
New Issue – South Georgia & SSI – Centenary of Naval Aviation 92
New Issue – South Georgia & SSI – Shackleton Defi nitive Issue 93
Canada – Hudson Bay Company – R.M.S. Nascopie 1912 – 1947 94
†Michael Goaman – Stamp Designer; “Antarctic Magistrate”; “Essence of Polar Philately” 95
Austral Autumn 2009 – Returns from TAAF 96
Discovery Expeditions Crew Member Query 97
New Tristan/Polar Postcards TdC 105/Pole 37 – RFA Lyme Bay (L 3007) 97
Auction Report – Grosvenor Auction 7th May 2009 98
Auction Report – S. Heijtz Falkland Islands & Dependencies + Antarctic Postal Auction N° 15 – 22.04.2009 99
Provisional Cruise Information for the RRS James Clark Ross for the 2009/2010 Antarctic Summer Season 100
Provisional Cruise Information for the RRS Ernest Shackleton for the 2009/2010 Antarctic Summer Season 100
Grosvenor Auction 24th September 2009 100
Revision of “Postmarks and Cachets of the British Antarctic Bases and South Georgia” 100

Contents December 2009

Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your Diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 102
PPHSGB AGM & London Spring Meeting – 27 February 2010; Chairman’s Message . . . 103
Membership News; †Brenda Evans; London 2010 International Stamp Exhibition. . . . 104
PPHSGB Diamond Jubilee 2012 and Gibbons Stamp Monthly (GSM) . . . . . 104
New Falkland Islands’ Philatelic Bureau Internet Site . . . . . . 104
Correction to the text of TdC104/Pole 36 – mv Sarah Baartman, Polar Post N°221, June 2009, page 57 . 104
Press Release: Fake “Coins” of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands . . . . 105
HMS Scott to replace HMS Endurance during the Antarctic Summer Season 2009/2010 . . . 105
Cambridge Weekend Report 2009: Part 1 – Overview and the Main Displays . . . . 106
†Robert Barnes . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Centenary of the Post Offi ce on South Georgia . . . . . . . . 110
New Issues – South Georgia; Falkland Islands; Hungary; Chile; TAAF; BAT . . . . 113
Stamp Issues Commemorating the Antarctic Treaty . . . . . . . 118
The Challenge of Postmark Dates . . . . . . . . . 121
Captain Scott’s Last Antarctic Expedition 1909-1913, Part 1 . . . . . . 122
†Edith Anna “Jackie” Ronne: October 13, 1919 – June 14, 2009 . . . . . . 123
Alaska – Wiley Post and Will Rogers Air Crash 1935, Barrow: Commemorative covers . . . 124
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands – Shackleton Defi nitive Issue Descriptive Text . . 126
Revised Antarctic Cruise Information for the RRS James Clark Ross and RRS Ernest Shackleton 2009/10 . 128
The Antarctic Postman 2009/2010; HMS Endurance still high and dry . . . . . 128
Polar Post on CD-ROM 1997-2009 in Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF Format . . . . 128