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Polar Post 2013

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Contents March 2013

Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 2
Chairman’s Message; Membership News; AGM Reminder! 3
Airships in the Arctic, Part 8 (fi nal part) 4
The German Atlantic Expedition 1925 -1927 10
Captain Scott’s Last Antarctic Expedition 1909-1913, Part 13 Terra Nova leaves Cape Evans for the last time 12
America on the Weddell Sea: Ellsworth Base 14
Cachets used at the German Antarctic Station Georg Von Neumayer III during the 2011/12 Season 16
30 Years of FS Polarstern 17
Unrecorded HMS Endurance (1) Cachet 18
South Shetlands Date Stamp B2 reused in 1947/48 – A date from ‘48’ 18
Supplement to the Article ‘The South Georgia Metal Canceller Type SG21’, (PP September 2012, Pages 66-69) 18
TIMBRES PASSION, Belfort, France 2-4 November 2012 – Report 19
A Philatelist’s Dream Come True (background to the Tristan da Cunha – Volcano issues I to IV) 20
New Issue – Tristan Da Cunha – Maiden Voyage of S.A. Agulhas II (technical details) 21
New Issue – Ascension Island: The Shackleton-Rowett Expedition 1921/1922 (background text) 21
New Issue – Tristan da Cunha – The Shackleton-Rowett Expedition 1921-1922 (stamps and background text) 22
New Issue – Local Post Citykurier Gera: Centenary of the Conquest of the South Pole (background text) 22
New Issue: South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area (background text) 23
New Issue – South Georgia and SSI – Mountains (stamps and background text) 24
New Issue – Falkland Islands: Defi nitive Issue – Whales and Dolphins (stamps and technical details) 25
New Issue – Falkland Islands: Colour in Nature (stamps and technical details) 25
New Issues – BAT – 21st December 2012 (technical details) 26
New Issue – Ross Dependency – 2012 Defi nitive Stamp Issue (stamps and technical details) 26
PPHSGB Diamond Jubilee Cambridge Residential Weekend Programme 27
6th Edition of the Specialised Stamp Catalogue of THE FALKLAND ISLANDS AND DEPENDENCIES 28
Contents 28

Contents June 2013

BAT New Issue illustration: The Naming of Queen Elizabeth Land celebrating the Diamond Jubilee Year 29
Falkland Islands New Issue illustration: Lady Thatcher 29
Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 30
Chairman’s Message; Membership News; Important – Request for members to stand for the Committee 31
Captain Scott’s Last Antarctic Expedition 1909-1913, Part 14 32
STOP PRESS – New Issue – The Falkland Islands – Lady Thatcher – 16th May 2013 33
Arctic Canada – Hudson Bay Company – RMS Nascopie – First Mail on the Northwest Passage Route 34
Suspect Postmarks of the Falkland Islands Dependencies (FID) 1944-1949 – a follow-up 35
PDF of the Diamond Jubilee Issue of Polar Post, December 2012, in Full Colour 35
Unusual HMS Protector (A146) Covers 36
A New Name and Postmark for the Argentine Antarctic Base Teniente Jubany 36
New Chilean Antarctic Research Station ‘Glaciar Union’ 36
Brazilian Station Comandante Ferraz badly damaged by Fire in February 2012 36
TAAF (FSAT) News – The 2012/2013 Antarctic Summer Season 37
Cover Returns from the 2012/2013 Antarctic Summer Season 38
5th Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition (CHINARE 5) – Icebreaker MV Xuě Lóng “Snow Dragon” 40
South Shetlands Date Stamp B2 dated D /FE 5/48 – a further HMS Snipe Cover 40
BAS Halley VI Research Station offi cially opened on 5th February 2013 41
Temporary Post Offi ce at the former Base W Hut on Detaille Island 41
Specialised Stamp Catalogue of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies 1800-2013 – 6th Edition in full colour 42
Stamps of the Polar Worlds – 1900 to 2012 – 5th Edition 42
Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Antarctica – 2nd Edition, December 2012 43
South Georgia – The Provisional ‘Paid at/At’ Handstamp 1911-1912; FIPSG Monograph N°15 43
FRANK WILD CBE, RNVR, FRGS Polar Explorer extraordinaire 44
New Issue – Australian Antarctic Territory – Mountains 12th March 2013 46
New Issue – The Falkland Islands – Referendum – 15th February 2013 46
New Issue – BAT – The Naming of Queen Elizabeth Land celebrating the Diamond Jubilee Year 47
New Issue – The Falkland Islands – Rockhopper Penguins, Predators and Prey Part 2 – 28th March 2013 47
New Issues – French Southern and Antarctic Territories (TAAF) – 1st January and 5th April 2013 48
New Issue – French Southern and Antarctic Territories (TAAF) – 29th April 2013 50
New Issue – New Zealand – ANZAC 2013 – NZ$2.40 Value 50
New Issue – South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands – Star Trails – 4th June 2013 50
A further ‘Around the World’ Karl Lellman Post Card; Trans-Polar Flights – Cover Illustrations 52
PPHSGB LIVE AUCTION – Saturday September 21st 2013; Cambridge Residential Weekend Reminder 52
Minutes of the PPHSGB AGM held on 23rd February 2013 53
Report of the Hon. Secretary for 2012 54
PPHSGB Accounts for the Calendar Year 2012; Report of the Treasurer for 2012 54
Report of the Membership Secretary for 2012; Report of the Editor of Polar Post for 2012 55
Contents; Enclosure 56

Contents September 2013

Front Cover – Cover Commemorating both the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913 (Scott)
and the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914 (Mawson) 57
Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 58
Chairman’s Message; Membership News; Members’ Exhibition Awards; Members’ Displays 59
Cambridge Weekend 20th to 22nd September 2013; Treasurer Sought 59
Grosvenor Auction London, UK, 6th December 2012, First Session 60
Grosvenor Auction London, UK, 7th March 2013 – The Du Pont Collection of the Falkland Islands 62
Prestige Auctions, Melbourne Australia – 8th May 2013 (Paul Wales’ Scott 1901-04 Exhibit Sale) 62
Antarctic Postcards Update No.6 64
Further Cover Returns from the 2012/13 Antarctic Summer Season 68
The Snow Cruiser 70
Centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914 Part 2 – The Antarctic Bases 1912-1914 72
Detaille Island February 2013 – Postcard and Postmark 75
Captain Scott’s Last Antarctic Expedition 1909 – 1913 Part 15 – THE FINALE! 76
Arctic Canada – Frobisher Bay APO 863 (Baffi n Island, NWT) – O’Reilly Hammer Type K1 78
New Issues – TAAF – ‘Art du timbre gravé’ and ‘Atelier des ailleurs 1 aux Îles Kerguelen’ 79
New Issues – The Falkland Islands, and South Georgia & SSI – Sir Rex Hunt, CMG (1926-2012) 80
New Issues – The Falkland Islands, and South Georgia & SSI – 60th Anniversary of the Coronation 81
British Antarctic Territory Penguin Self-Adhesive Stamps in Coils – 1st Day of use – 16th November 2012 81
New Issues – The Falkland Islands, and South Georgia & SSI – Shallow Marine Surveys Group (SMSG) 82
Pobjoy Mint Stamp Division Website 83
Invalidation of Tristan Da Cunha Postage Stamps 83
Mawson’s Huts Foundation Postcards, Covers and Overprinted Souvenir Sheets (AAE 1911-1914, Part IV) 83
PPHSGB Live and Postal Auction N°67 (live 21st September at the Cambridge Weekend) 83
Postage Rates unchanged for the Falkland Islands, South Georgia & SSI and the British Antarctic Territory 83
BAS and UKAHT Activities during the coming 2013/14 Antarctic Summer Season 83
The Society Internet Site http://www.pphsgb.org/ 84
Contents 84

Contents December 2013

BAT Defi nitive Issue – Stamps on Stamps; PPHSGB Cambridge Weekend Photographs Front Cover 85
Illustrations of PPHSGB Cambridge Weekend Postcards and Members at dinner 86
Contents; Enclosures; Polar Post 1997-2013 CD and DVD ROMs 87
Updated Postmarks and Cachets of the British Antarctic Bases and South Georgia as a PDF file 87
Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 88
Chairman’s Message; Membership News; PPHSGB Auction Update; Members’ Displays 89
Centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911 to 1914 Part 3 – Macquarie Island 90
The Maritime History of South Georgia – a review; An Interesting Coronation FDC from South Georgia 93
Arctic Canada – The Hudson Bay Company – RMS Nascopie – Fort Ross, NWT, 15th September 1941 94
An Unusual HMS Protector Cover 95
FIDS Base T – Early Mail, August 1960 96
Further Early Base T, Adelaide Island, Mail 1961-1963 97
Further Covers from the 2012/2013 Antarctic Season 100
Terra Nova – A new publication from “Cercle d’études postales polaires’ (CEPP) 100
The PPHSGB Residential Weekend in Cambridge 20th to 22nd September 2013, Part 1 101
P.P.H.S. of GB Annual General Meeting & London Spring Meeting 2014 106
New Issue – Russia – Centenary of the Discovery of “Severnaya Zemlya” by Boris Vilkitsky 106
New Issue – South Georgia – Centenary of The Whalers Church Grytviken 107
New Issue – Tristan da Cunha – Volcano Part III – 50th Anniversary of the Resettlement, 1963 – 2013 108
New Issue – Tristan da Cunha – Volcano IV –Ships of the Volcano Period 108
New Issue – AAT – The Australasian Antarctic Expedition Part 3 – 1913 Disaster & Isolation 109
New Issues – British Antarctic Territory – November/December 2013 110
New Issue – TAAF – ‘Les Armateurs de Kerguelen’ 110
New Issue illustrations – BAT Shackleton Souvenir Sheet and South Georgia Whalers Church Centenary 111
New Issue illustration – AAT – The Australasian Antarctic Expedition Part 3 Souvenir Sheet 112
New Issue illustrations – BAT – 70th Anniversary of Bransfi eld House; Halley VI Research Station; Penguins 112