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Contents Spring 1998

Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Dates for your diary . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Cambridge 98 – Residential Weekend Meeting . . . . . . . . 3
The PPHS Autumn Meeting 1997 . . . . . . . . . . 3
Additions to the library to December 1997 . . . . . . . . . 3
Live and Postal Auction – 14 November 1998 . . . . . . . . 3
The Residency Posts of Kerguelen 1909-1925 . . . . . . . . 4
Associazione “Grand Nord” – Activities during the Arctic Summer 1998 . . . . . 4
Update on the 1954/55 British South Georgia Expedition . . . . . . . 4
Membership Update to 1st February 1998 . . . . . . . . . 5
First Balloon Mail from the North Pole . . . . . . . . . 5
British Antarctic Territory – Summer Season 1997/1998 – Early returns . . . . . 5
Special HMS Endurance postmark . . . . . . . . . . 6
South Georgia – Summer Season 1997/1998 – Early returns . . . . . . . 7
South Georgia – Once in a life time offer . . . . . . . . . 7
3rd Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition . . . . . . . . . . 7
Parcel Cards used with Parcels to Greenland posted at Danish Post Offices . . . . . 8
A letter from Hope Bay – December 1963 . . . . . . . . . 11
Royal Society International Geophysical Year Expedition 1955 – 1959 . . . . . . 13
An Update on printing amounts for labels used on the 1977 – 1979 Antarctic Tourist Flights . . . 21
Winchester Castle – March 1935 . . . . . . . . . . 21
New Tristan Postcard – SAS Drakenberg . . . . . . . . . 22
✝ Alec Page FRPS – a tribute by Gerry Pearce . . . . . . . . 22
Tombstones of Tristan . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Cover offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
New Issues:- Namibia, Ross Dependency, TAAF, Uruguay. . . . . . . 27
Polar Postcards . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
South Through the Pole 1997-98 . . . . . . . . . . 31
7th Ecuadorian Expedition to the Antarctic 1997-1998 . . . . . . . 32
Back issues of Polar Post . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Contents Summer 1998

Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Dates for your diary . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Back issues of Polar Post . . . . . . . . . . 34
Swinpex ’98 . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Cambridge Residential Weekend . . . . . . . . . 35
Members Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 35
PPHS Officers’ Reports for 1997 . . . . . . . . . 35
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting 1998 . . . . . . . . 39
Report on the Spring meeting 1998. . . . . . . . . . 40
Membership News . . . . . . . . . . . 41
A Modern Antarctic Cover (Rothera) . . . . . . . . . 41
A letter from a Bulgarian Antarctic Scientist, December 1997 . . . . . . 41
Inauguration of SANAE IV . . . . . . . . . . 42
Graf Zeppelin – Polar Post. . . . . . . . . . . 42
PPHSGB is now on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . 42
The AAP Mawson’s Hut Foundation Covers . . . . . . . . 43
New Tristan Postcards . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Letters from Tristan in 1922 . . . . . . . . . . 44
Tristan Definitives of 1961 . . . . . . . . . . 45
Chilean Antarctic Postmarks and Cachets . . . . . . . . 46
Antarctic Winter Stations 1997 . . . . . . . . . . 50
Ships (Icebreakers) which have reached the North Pole 1977 – 1997 . . . . . 52
Polar Telephone Cards . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Antarctic Adventure – a philatelist’s travels to the far South . . . . . . 55
An Antarctic Cruise on board the World Discoverer . . . . . . . 59
Cover offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
New Issues:- AAT; BAT; South Georgia; Tristan Da Cunha; Greenland; Peru . . . . 67
Belgian “South Through the Pole Expedition” 1998 . . . . . . . 68

Contents Autumn 1998

Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Dates for your diary . . . . . . . . . . . 70
“Postcards of Antarctic Expeditions” . . . . . . . . . 71
Cambridge 98 – Residential Weekend Meeting 13-15 November 1998 . . . . . 71
Membership News . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Additions to the Library to May 1998 . . . . . . . . . 72
Cachets and Postmarks of South Georgia . . . . . . . . 73
“Antarctic Oasis – under the Spell of south Georgia” . . . . . . . 73
James Caird Society – Newsletter May 1998, Issue 4 . . . . . . . 73
New Endurance Handstamp . . . . . . . . . . 73
VXE-6 Decommissioning Information . . . . . . . . . 74
Society Auction . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Franklin’s Balloon Messages . . . . . . . . . . 75
New Postmark Variety from South Georgia . . . . . . . . 79
Back issues of Polar Post . . . . . . . . . . 79
Postcards of Tristan Da Cunha – Part 2:- Semi-official and unofficial postcards . . . . 80
Greenland – Three Puzzling Covers; Warning – Falsification of Greenland Seamail covers . . 84
Australian Antarctic Territory . . . . . . . . . . 86
O.W. (Bill) Newport – Obituary . . . . . . . . . . 86
A Favourite Cover – letter from J. R. (Johnny) Green . . . . . . . 87
Adrien De Gerlache Commemorative Antarctic Cruise 1998 . . . . . . 89
XIV Chinese Antarctic Expedition 1997-1998 . . . . . . . . 97
Cover offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
New Tristan Postcards TdC 23- TdC 25 . . . . . . . . . 101
Note on Copyright . . . . . . . . . . . 101
New Issues:- BAT; Finland; TAAF; Greenland; South Georgia; United Nations (Geneva) . . 102

Contents Winter 1998

Editorial; Back issues of Polar Post .. . . . . . . . . 106
Dates for your diary . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Seasonal Greetings; PPHSGB AGM and Spring Meeting 1999 . . . . . . 107
Membership News; SWINPEX 98; Wedding of Stefan Heijtz. . . . . . . 108
Ecuador in the Antarctic; Awards at Autumn Stampex . . . . . . . 109
Postcards of the Antarctic – Catalogue review; New Tristan Postcard – rms “St Helena” . . . 110
Auction Changeover; New Auction Manager; Additions to the library to October 1998 . . . 111
Letters to the editor (Trevor Cornford, Revd Father Edwards) . . . . . 112
Local “Specimens” from Tristan Da Cunha . . . . . . . . 113
Alaska – The Last frontier; Copyright Notice . . . . . . . . 114
Australian Antarctic Territory update . . . . . . . . . 116
Norway’s Involvement in the Antarctic 1947-1997 . . . . . . . 117
Ukrainian Antarctic Station Vernadsky; visit of Wilf Vevers; 1st to 3rd Expeditions . . . 121
A Favourite Cover . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Association Grande Nord; . . . . . . . . . . 126
Revised Table of Parcel Number Labels used at The Greenland Post Office in Copenhagen 1939-1952 . 127
Australian External Territory of Heard Island – cachets 1992/93 . . . . . . 128
Cover offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
TAAF Unmounted mint stamp offer . . . . . . . . . 133
New Issues:- BAT; Greenland; South Georgia . . . . . . . . 133