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Polar Post 2010

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Contents March 2010

Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for Your Diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 2
Chairman’s Message; Membership News; †Robert Barnes FRPSL 3
The PPHSGB Cambridge Residential Weekend 9th to 11th October 2009 – Part 2 – Members Entertain 4
1907 – 1909 British Antarctic “Nimrod” Expedition Part 6 8
Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition – an attempt to catalogue the mail items 10
“Links of the Empire” Postcards Series 3, published by E. Wrench – Two Printings of Card N°4 (DA-4) 11
Antarctic Postcards Update by Gordon Buchan 12
Operasjon Latham – The Search for Amundsen 2009 14
Philatelists [Species] at Risk – A most confusing ‘joint’ issue from Australia Post 14
New Fur Seal pictorial postmarks introduced at Kingston PO, Tasmania 7050 15
Alaska – Wiley Post and Will Roger’s Air Crash 1935, Barrow – a Postscript 16
TAAF News – Marion Dufresne OP 2009/2 17
TIMPEX 2009 – New Zealand National Stamp Show, Timaru 16th – 18th October 2009 17
Captain Scott’s Last Antarctic Expedition 1909-1913, Part 2 18
New Polar Related Stamp Catalogues 19
Special Commemorative Overprinted AAT Mini Sheets; Remains of Mawson’s Air Tractor found 20
Tristan Da Cunha: Robin Taylor’s Ten Year Tristan da Cunha Marathon Ends 21
New Tristan/Polar Postcard TdC 106/Pole 38 – MT. Wolraad Woltemade 22
Auction Update – Urgent Information needed by our Auction Manager Bil Tilbury 22
New Issue – Russia – 50th Anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty 22
New Issues – Falkland Islands (HMS Exeter; Atmospheres); Mexico – PPR&G; India – PPR&G 23
New Issue – New Zealand – Sir Peter Blake 1948-2001 23
New Issue – Ross Dependency – 50th Anniversary of the Signing of the Antarctic Treaty 24
New Issue – South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands – Post Offi ce Centenary 25
New Issues – French Southern and Antarctic Territory – TAAF – 1st January 2010 26
New Issue – TAAF – Carnet de Voyage – Les Îles Éparses; British Antarctic Territory 2009/10 New Issue Dates 27
Port Lockroy News; For Sale – Covers of The President 27
St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philatelic Society (SHATPS) London Meeting – 13th May 2010 27
PPHSGB at “LONDON 2010” International Stamp Exhibition 28

Contents June 2010

Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 30
Chairman’s Message; Membership Update; Obituaries – Warrant Offi cer Alf Amphlett and Dr Phillip Law 31
The PPHSGB Cambridge Residential Weekend 9th to 11th October 2009 Part 3 – Members Entertain Continued 32
TAAF Ship Movements November and December 2009 35
1907-1909 British Antarctic “Nimrod” Expedition Part 7 – Sub-Offi ce Letter-Bill
and Registered Letter Book N° 7 36
Obscure Polar Facts – Shackleton in Northern Russia 1918-1919 38
British Army Post Offi ces in North Russia 1918-19 39
It Could Have Been The First B.A.T. Commemorative – 1963 Red Cross Centenary 40
Arctic – Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) – Garde cotière canadienne (GCC) 41
Antarctic Postcards Update N°2 44
Captain Scott’s Last Antarctic Expedition 1909 to 1913 – Part 3 46
“Aurora Feared Lost” – from the Philatelic Magazine, January 1st 1918, page 10 47
New Issue – South Georgia & SSI – Cephalopods – The Waters of South Georgia 48
New Issue – South Georgia & SSI – London 2010 Festival of Stamps 49
New Issue – The Falkland Islands – The Recovery of the ss Great Britain 50
New Issue – The Falkland Islands – London 2010 Festival of Stamps – The Few – The Battle of Britain
10 July 1940 to 31 October 1940 51
New Issues – PPR&G 2009 – Abkhazia – Transnistria – South Ossetia 51
Minutes of the AGM of the PPHSGB held on 27th February 2010; Chairman’s Review 2009 52
Secretary’s Report for 2009 53
PPHSGB Accounts for the Year ending 31st December 2009; Treasurer’s Report 2009 54
Reports of the Editor of Polar Post, the Membership Secretary and the Auctioneer for 2009 55
PPHSGB at SWINPEX 2010 – Saturday 12th June 2010 – 10 am to 4.30 pm 56
PPHSGB – Membership Subscription Rates Increase from 1st January 2011 56

Contents September 2010

Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 58
Chairman’s Message; Membership News 59
London Festival of Stamps – International Stamp Exhibition 8th to 15th May 2010 60
Antarctic Postcards Update N°3 62
Antarctic News from South Korea 64
TAAF Ships’ Movements – Austral Season 2009/10 65
Falkland Islands Dependencies Maps Issue – Ideas behind the Design 66
SG Stamp Catalogues: Antarctica – 1st Edition February 2010; Falkland Islands, 4th Edition February 2010 67
Postmarks and Cachets used by the South Georgia Administration and Post Offi ce – October 2009 68
North Russia Expeditionary Force (N.R.E.F.) TPO #1 Exists 69
Airships in the Arctic – Part 1 70
Auction Report – Falkland Islands and Dependencies + Antarctic Postal Auction N° 16, 25/04/2010 75
Stop Press – Antarctic Covers for Sale 75
Captain Scott’s last Antarctic Expedition 1909 to 1913 – Part 4: En Route: Madeira to South Africa 76
New BAT related Cachets reported during the 2009/2010 Season 77
New Issue – South Georgia & SSI – Wrecks and Hulks 78
New Issues – Kiribati – Explorers; AAT – Macquarie Island 79
New Issues – TAAF; the Falkland Islands; Chile 80
1907-1909 British Antarctic “Nimrod” Expedition Part 8 – Shackleton Letter dated 11th December 1909 81
AAT – A letter from “Morson” with a Macquarie Island Postmark 82
“MWDC/Revenue Recovered/Sort to Destination” Cachet on 2010 Port Lockroy Cover 82
Provisional Cruise Information for the RRS James Clark Ross for the 2010/11 Antarctic Summer Season 82
New Postage Rates – AAT, Falkland Islands, South Georgia & SSI, BAT. 83
ICN Volumes 1 to 54 on CD-ROM; Essence of Polar Philately 83
Obituaries: Surgeon Captain David Dalgliesh and Brigadier-General Keith Greenaway 84
Published quarterly by the Polar Postal History Society of Great Britain
VOLUME 42, N° 3 WHOLE NUMBER 226 September 2010
P.P.H.S. LONDON AUTUMN MEETING
SATURDAY, 6 NOVEMBER 2010

Contents December 2010

Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post 86
Polar Post 1997-2010 (56 issues) on CD-ROM; Note on Copyright 86
Notice of the AGM on 26th February 2011; Chairman’s Message; Membership News 87
Airships in the Arctic Part 2 88
A Cruise to Franz Josef Land 27th July to 6th August 2010 with Ikarus Tours 94
McGregor Arctic Expedition 1937-38 96
†Karl Vernon Lellman 96
†Lt Cdr Malcolm Burley RN MBE 97
A query concerning William F. Rankin (Scotia Expedition 1903) 97
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914 to 1916 – A Plea for Funds from Sir Ernest Shackleton 98
Limited Edition AAT PPR&G Macquarie Island Covers of 100 each 98
Overprinted AAT Macquarie Island Mini-Sheets for the benefi t of the Mawsons’ Hut Foundation 99
‘MWDC/Revenue Recovered/Sort to Destination’ Cachet – Polar Post, N°226, September 2010, page 82 99
Captain Scott’s Last Antarctic Expedition 1909 to 1913 – Part 5 (Cape Town to Port Chalmers, NZ) 100
†Commodore Salvador Alaimo 103
New Issue – British Antarctic Territory – Centenary of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913 104
New Issues – British Antarctic Territory – Marine Biodiversity and Antarctic Birds 105
New Issue – South Georgia & SSI: William Hodges: The Art of Discovery 106
New Issues – South Georgia & SSI: Penguins – Airmail Postcard Rate and Flora 107
New Issues – Falkland Islands – Breeding Penguins Part II and Flowering Shrubs 108
New Issues – Dominican Republic – Protect the Polar Regions; Russia 100th Birthday of Yevgeny Federov 108
New Issue – St. Vincent and the Grenadines – PPR&G 109
New Issue – AAT – PPR&G – Additional Issue – Adelaide Stampex 2010 109
New Polar Postcard Pole 39 – RRS James Clark Ross 109
TAAF: Ship Movements 2010; Cover TARANTELLA (BPES Team 8) 110
BAT – Halley cover with cachet of T/X Igarka 110
PPHSGB Cambridge Residential Weekend 16th to 18th September 2011 – Programme 111
New Issue – India – PPR&G – Additional Information 112
Stop Press: Cape Denison Post Offi ce – New Postmarkers Index 2010, Page 4