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Polar Post 1997

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Contents Spring 1997

Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . 2
PPHS Society News . . . . . . . . . . 3
“Discovery” 1901-1904 Mail – Trevor Cornford . . . . . . 5
Scott’s Last Expedition Cover 1911 – Trevor Cornford . . . . . . 5
Bransfield Struggles to reach HALLEY . . . . . . . . 5
Amazing Postal Service – Gerry Pearce . . . . . . . . 6
Arctic Activities 1996 – Dr. R. C. Hunt . . . . . . . . 6
Polar Pieces . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Indian Antarctic Expeditions 1981 – 1993, Part 2 – Robert Hurst . . . . . 8
Australian Antarctic Territory – Update N°. 23 – Alison Painter . . . . . 13
South Georgia and BAT Registration Labels – Frank Mitchell . . . . . 14
BAT and South Georgia Postmark and cachet Update – John Youle . . . . 15
The Cachets of Base F, Argentine Islands / FARADAY – John Youle . . . . 19
The Transfer of FARADAY to The Ukrainian Government – G. Barber and Rolf Kardel . . 23
New Issues:- Argentina, BAT, Chile, China, Greenland, Tristan da Cunha, TAAF, Ukraine . 25
Cover offers – H. E. J. Evans . . . . . . . . . 32

Contents Summer 1997

Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Dates for your diary . . . . . . . . . . 38
PPHS – Reports of Society officers for 1996 . . . . . . . 39
PPHS – Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of 8th March 1997 . . . . 43
PPHS- Report on the Society Meeting of 8th March 1997 – Gerry Pearce . . . . 44
MIDPEX 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Association of British Philatelic Societies. . . . . . . . 46
New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands – Information required . . . . . 46
Obituaries – Ian Walter Harkess; Captain Nick Barker; J. Lewis Blackburn . . . 46
Belgian Antarctic Activities – Eddy De Busschere . . . . . . 48
Australian Antarctic Update N° 24 – Alison Painter . . . . . . 56
A Further Update of the 1954 A.A.T. Cinderellas – Aubrey Halpern . . . . 57
Indian Antarctic Expeditions 1981 – 1993 (Part 3) – Robert Hurst . . . . 58
Postcards of Tristan Da Cunha – Part One – Robin Taylor . . . . . 59
Early Gough Island Mails – Update – Mark Jurisich . . . . . . 62
BAT Update – John Youle . . . . . . . . . 64
Associazione Grande Nord – Italian Expedition to the North Pole 1997 . . . . 64
Book Reviews – “Antarctic Housewife” and “New Zealand Antarctic Postal History to 1941” . 65
New Issues:- AAT, Chile, Greenland, Tristan da Cunha (postcard N° 17). . . . 67
Cover offers – H. E. J. Evans . . . . . . . . . 68
Auction Report – Auction 15/4 1997 arranged by Stefan Heijtz . . . . . 72

Contents Autumn 1997

Editorial / Dates for your diary . . . . . . . . . . 74
Herbert Lealman honoured . . . . . . . . . . 74
Membership Update / Additions to the library / PPHSGB Autumn Meeting. . . . . 75
Proposed Changes to Exchange Packet Circulation . . . . . . . 76
Report on Midpex, June 1997 . . . . . . . . . . 76
Antarctic Postcards 1897-1960 / Back issues of Polar Post / Obituary – John Lewis Blackburn . . 77
International Amateur Radio Expedition to Heard Island 1996 -1997 / BAT – 1997/1998 Summer Season 77
Christmas at Port Lockroy . . . . . . . . . . 78
Gift of ship launches clean-up of Antarctica . . . . . . . 79
Tristan Da Cunha – “Farewell to Calshot” . . . . . . . . 80
Tristan News Update . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Australian Antarctic Territory Update N° 25 . . . . . . . 83
Parcel Cards Used With Parcels Posted at the Greenland Administration Post Office in Copenhagen 1939-1952 84
Provisional Shipping Schedule of the Aurora Australis 1997/1998 . . . . . 89
The Swedish South Polar Expedition 1901-1903 . . . . . . . 90
New Issues:- (TAAF, Greenland, Brazil, BAT, Falkland Islands, South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha,
North Cape (postmark), Belgium) . . . . . . . . . 101
Cover offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Contents Winter 1997

Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Dates for your diary . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Seasonal greetings from the Chairman . . . . . . . . . 111
South Georgia once in a life time offer . . . . . . . . . 111
PPHS Society News – Annual General Meeting and Spring Meeting 1998 . . . . 111
PPHS Auction N°40 . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Antarctic Postcards 1897 to 1960 . . . . . . . . . 111
Membership update . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Obituary – John Cheal . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Back issues of Polar Post . . . . . . . . . . . 113
VII Ecuadorian Antarctic Expedition . . . . . . . . . 114
Cover Service Antarctica . . . . . . . . . . . 114
50th Anniversary of Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . . . . . 114
Tierra Del Fuego – The Land of Fire . . . . . . . . . 115
Further information on Belgian Antarctic Activities . . . . . . . . 122
AAT Qantas Antarctic Tourist Flights 1977-1979 Cindrellas . . . . . . . 125
The Byrd II Expedition: Correspondence following the end of the Second Antarctic Expedition in 1935 . . 130
BAS Air Unit cover November 1994 . . . . . . . . . 131
Ivan Papanin and “NORTH ONE” . . . . . . . . . . 132
100 Years of Andrée’s Polar Flight . . . . . . . . . . 135
Cover offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
New Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Ukrainian Base Vernadsky . . . . . . . . . . 144