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Polar Post 2011

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Contents March 2011

Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 2
Chairman’s Message; Cambridge Residential Weekend September 2011; Membership News 3
Airships in the Arctic Part 3 4
New Tristan Bar-coded Registration Labels, Mid 2010 10
British Antarctic Territory – New Issues 2010 – Rothera 3 .12. 2010 – Special Cover sold for Charity 10
New Cape Denison Postal Cancellers 11
Douglas Mawson’s Antarctic Bases – Book and Postcards 11
India and the Antarctic 12
Alaska – Postmarks of Territorial Alaska – Barge Post Offi ce recorded 1st February 1950 – 3rd January 1951 15
From Christmas Island to the South Pole via the Falkland Islands 15
Antarctic Postcards Update N°4 16
SAMBA – Search for Antarctic Meteorites Belgian Contribution 17
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1916 – Booklet produced by Shackleton 18
MacGregor Arctic Expedition 1937-38 – Polar Post, Volume 42, N° 4, December 2010, page 96 18
The ‘PENGUIN GLOBE VIGNETTE’ of the SS Discovery Correspondence 1901-04 19
‘Postmarks and Cachets of the British Antarctic Bases and South Georgia’ 19
Back Issues of Upland Goose and Polar Magazines Available 19
ANTARCTIC CALENDARS Available – 12 pages with covers/write up 19
POLAR POST 1997-2010 (56 issues) on CD-ROM (Excellent Value for New Members) 19
CAPTAIN SCOTT’S LAST ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1909 – 1913 Part 6 20
Grosvenor Philatelic Auctions – Sale of 9th & 10th December 2010 (South Georgia postcard) 22
New Issue – Ross Dependency – Whales – 17th November 2010 23
New Issues – TAAF – 4th November 2010 and 4th January 2011 24
New Issue – South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands – Pets – 15th February 2011 25
New Issue – Falkland Islands – 70th Anniversary of the RAF Search and Rescue Force – 4th February 2011 26
New Issue – Falkland Islands – Islands, Stacks and Bluff s, Part 3 – 4th March 2011 26
New Issue – Dominican Republic PPR&G; A note from the Editor 26
Polar 2012- International Salon of Polar Philately at the 12th Erzgebirge Level 3 Exhibition, September 2012 27
Report on the PPHSGB Autumn Meeting at Philatex held on 6th November 2010 28
HMS Scott replaces HMS Endurance for the 2010/2011 Antarctic Summer Season 28
SWINPEX 2011 – Saturday 11th June 2011; MIDPEX 2011 – Saturday 2nd July 2011 28

Contents June 2011

Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 30
Chairman’s Message; Membership News; Editorial 31
Airships in the Arctic Part 4 – The Norge Airship Expedition 1926 Part I 32
A Ship’s Tale – The Story of the Professor Khromov 36
Port Lockroy Self-Inking Cancellers 2005-2011 37
Polar Postal History Society of GB Cover Off ers 38
Further TAE Covers 39
25th Anniversary of the PPHSGB Cover 40
RAF Mountaineering Association Expedition to Ellesmere Island (NWT) 1967 40
The Scottish Ladies’ Climbing Club East Greenland Expedition 1970 to Staunings Alps in Scoresby Land 41
80 Years Ago – The Boyd Expedition to Greenland 1931 41
Special covers from the Post Offi ce at Mawson’s Huts, Cape Denison during the 2010-11 Season 42
Correction concerning AAT cancellers held in Australia 43
2011 Mount Erebus Disaster Memorial Flight 43
M/V Polarbjørn to replace HMS Endurance and to be commissioned as HMS Protector 43
CAPTAIN SCOTT’S LAST ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1909 – 1913 Part 7 44
Members’ Sales 45
BAT and South Georgia & SSI 2010/2011 Antarctic Summer Season Review 46
The world’s largest neutrino observatory IceCube successfully completed at the South Pole 47
New Tristan Postcard TdC107 – mv. Straat Nassau 48
New Issues – The Falkland Islands; Norway 48
New Issues – Venezuela; Serbia; Belarus; Bulgaria; Spain; TAAF 49
New Issue: South Georgia & SSI: The Pioneering Work of Sir Alister Hardy 50
Delayed Release of two Falkland Islands’ New Issues; Chairman’s Review 2010 51
Minutes of the AGM of the PPHSGB held on 26th February 2011 52
Reports of the Secretary, Membership Secretary and Editor of Polar Post for 2010 53
Report of the Treasurer for 2010; Accounts of the PPHSGB for 2010 54
Auction Report – Harmer’s of London Auction 4789 – 23rd & 24th March 2011 55
SWINPEX 2011 – Saturday 11th June 2011; MIDPEX 2011 – Saturday 2nd July 2011 56
Cambridge Residential Weekend 16th to 18th September 2011 – Final Reminder 56

Contents September 2011

Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 58
Chairman’s Message; Membership News; Membership List; Autumn 2011 Meeting at Philatex 59
Airships in the Arctic Part 5 – The Norge Airship Expedition 1926 – Part II 60
Centenary of the First Japanese Antarctic Expedition 1910 to 1912 64
Centenary of the German South Polar Expedition 1911-1913 67
Suspect Postmarks of the Falkland Islands Dependencies (FID) 1944-1949 68
Antarctic Postcards Update No.5 70
TAAF News from the Austral Summer Season 2010/11 72
HMS Protector A173 – Royal Navy Press Release 73
25th Anniversary of the PPHSGB Cover and signatures; Obituary Frank Mitchell 74
Joint Services Expedition to North Peary Land 1969 75
Requests for information – Cindy Buxton and Annie Price mail from St Andrew’s Bay; postmark SG21 75
Captain Scott’s Last Antarctic Expedition 1909-1913 Part 8 76
Society activities and events June/July 2011; Editorial – change of deadline dates for Polar Post 78
New Issues: Norway; Argentina; Japan; Republic of Korea; TAAF 79
New Issues: The Falkland Islands – Royal Wedding and 85th Birthday of HRM QEII; AAT Icebergs 80
New Issue: AAT – Centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 81
New Issue: Australia Joint Territories Issue – World Wide Fund for Nature 50 years. 81
New Issues: Falkland Islands – CPA 1911-2011; South Georgia & SSI – Royal Wedding; Petrels 82
Auction Report – 17th F.I. Postal Auction held on 27th April 2011 arranged by Stefan Heijtz 83
Provisional Programme (21st July 2011) for the BAS Base Relief Ships for the 2011/2012 Season 84
PPHSGB Residential Weekend 16th to 18th September 2011- Royal Cambridge Hotel 84

Contents December 2011

Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 86
Chairman’s Message; Membership News; AGM 2012; Editorial; Members’ Exhibition Awards 87
The Norwegian Conquest of the Geographical South Pole Front page (85) and 88
Sheila Scott’s World & over the North Pole Flight 1971 95
Temporary Ross Dependency Agency Post Offi ce and new Canceller 22nd to 26th March 2011 95
Postal Stationery Envelope and Special Postmark produced to Commemorate the Departure of
the 2nd German Antarctic Expedition 95
Captain Scott’s Last Antarctic Expedition 1909-1913, Part 9 96
Lighthouse at the End of the World 98
The PPHSGB Residential Weekend in Cambridge 16th to 18th September 2011 – Part 1 100
Polar Postal History Society of GB Cover Off ers 105
Stop Press – New Issue: South Georgia & SSI – Shallow Marine Life 105
New Issues – BAT: Royal Research Ships; Antarctic Science; Frozen Planet (BBC TV) 106
New Issue – French Southern and Antarctic Territories (TAAF): ‘La Maison Orré’ 108
New Issues – South Georgia & SSI: Frozen Planet (BBC TV); Frank Wild 109
Contents 112
PPHSGB Advertisement – Polar Post 1997-2011 on CD-ROM Membership List October 2011, page 4
New Philatelic Items sold for the benefi t of the Mawson’s Huts Foundation Index October 2011 pages 3-4