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Contents March 2015

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New Defi nitive Stamp Issue – South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands – Ships, Scientists and Explorers 1
Chile – The First Years in Antarctica; Grosvenor Auction 20th November 2014 Lots 4161 and 3751 2
New Issue – China – 30 Years of Chinese Polar Research; New Issue – Ross Dependency Souvenir Sheet 2
Texts
Contents; Polar Post on DVD-ROM 1952 to 2014 3
Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 4
Chairman’s Message; Membership News; Members’ Sales; Members’ Exhibition Awards; Members’ Wants 5
Dates for Your Diary and a Request for Volunteers – London 2015; New Issue – The Falkland Islands – Birds & Young 6
New Issue – Ross Dependency Souvenir Sheet; New Issue – The Pitcairn Islands – 75th Anniversary Byrd Expedition Visit 6
Correction to Polar Post, December 2014, Page 100 – BAT iSTAR Issue Values 6
Stop Press – Increased Postage Rates for South Georgia and SSI from 5th January 2015 6
Canada – Canadian Armed Forces – VP-407 Flight over the North Pole 1974 7
Canada – Jacobsen-McGill University Arctic Research Expedition Axel Heiberg Island N.W.T. 7
Chile – The First Years in Antarctica 8
Bird Island 11
†John Richard Claydon; The First Kiwi at the South Pole (Obituary and cover) 12
The Grosvenor Sale of the Harry Evans Collection of Antarctica, Falkland Islands Dependencies and Whaling Mail 14
New Issue – China – 30 Years of Chinese Polar Research 16
New Issue – The Falkland Islands – Type 42 Destroyers 1975 to 2014 16
New Issue – South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands – Albatrosses 16
New Defi nitive Stamp Issue – South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands – Ships, Scientists and Explorers 17
New Issues – French Southern and Antarctic Territories (TAAF) 18
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New Issue – The Falkland Islands – Type 42 Destroyers 1975 to 2014; New Issue – The Falkland Islands – Birds & Young 19
New Issues – French Southern and Antarctic Territories (TAAF) 19/20
New Issue – South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands – Albatrosses 20

Contents June 2015

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Covers from the Southern Venturer and Southern Harvester 21
Operation IceCube Cover 2014-2015 from South Pole Station bearing two new labels 22
2014/15 Season Returns from Port Lockroy; Offi cial BAT FDCs from Signy 19th November 2014 22
Texts
Contents; Polar Post on DVD-ROM 1952 to 2014 23
Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 24
Chairman’s Message; Membership News; SWINPEX 2015; MIDPEX 2015 25
5-frame exhibit “The Postal Markings of South Georgia and the British Antarctic Bases” at Baypex 2014 26
Ice Pilot (Captain Andrew Leachman) 27
Cover Returns from SG&SSI and BAT during the 2014/15 Season 28
The Post WWII Whaling Factory Ships of Christian Salvesen & Co. Ltd 30
Canada Identifies Found Franklin Expedition Ship 32
Canada – The Macmillan Arctic Expedition to Baffi n Island 1937 33
Canada – 50th Anniversary of the Transit of the Northwest Passage by RCMP St Roch 1940-42 33
Wrench Acknowledgement Cards 1901 – A New Find 34
150th Anniversary of the Birth of Erich von Drygalski 34
Southwards on the Quest 1921 -22 (postcard and fl yer advertising lecture/Film) 35
Minutes of the AGM of the PPHSGB held on 21 February 2015 36
PPHSGB Accounts for 2014; Report of the Hon. Treasurer for 2014; Secretary’s Report 2014 37
Membership Secretary’s Report for 2014; Report of the Editor of Polar Post for 2014 38
†Gordon Alexander Buchan (Obituary); Editorial – Polar Post and Society Auctions 39
PPHSGB Cover Off ers 40
Belgian Antarctic Expedition 2014/15; John Farmar Cachets from the 1983/84 Season 41
New Issue – AAT – Colours of AAT 41
New Issue – South Georgia & SSI – Viola / Dias – The Last of the British Steam Trawlers 42
New Issues – Argentina – 50th Anniversary of Operación 90; Antarctopelta oliveroi 1986 43
New Issue – Tristan da Cunha – The “Potato Essays” – A Petition for Postage Stamps 44
New Issues – TAAF – March and April 2015 44
New Issue – Falkland Islands – Colour In Nature Part IV; 800th Anniversary of the Sealing of the Magna Carta 45
New Issue – The Pitcairn Islands – 75th Anniversary of the Visit of the 3rd Byrd Antarctic Expedition 46
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New Issues: The Pitcairn Islands; Tristan da Cunha; The Falkland Islands; TAAF 47
The Whale Catcher Southern Actor moored at the Sandefjord Whaling Museum, July 2003, and a photo of its Harpoon Gun 48
New Issue – AAT – Colours of AAT 48
New Issue – South Georgia & SSI – Viola / Dias – The Last of the British Steam Trawlers 48
Cover Off er 06/2015, N°2 48
Postcard bearing John Farmar Cachets 48

Contents September 2015

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Covers from the article: The Postal History of Adélie Land 1949-1959 49
John Farmar Philatelic Souvenir from March 1984 on a Large Card submitted by Val Roberts 50
Postcards showing the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Station – 10 Years BELARE 50
Recent New Issues 2015 – The Republic of Togo and the Republic of Guinea 50
Texts
Contents; Polar Post on DVD-ROM 1953 to 2014 51
Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your Diary; Back Issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 52
Chairman’s Message; †Martin Burke Evans FRPS,L – 9th December 1944 to 30th June 2015 – An Obituary 53
Gerry Pearce – 4th Honorary President of the Polar Postal History Society of GB; A Response from Gerry Pearce 54
Membership News; New Membership Subscription Rates; Standing Order Reminder 54
Operation Tabarin Book – A Request for Cover Illustrations from Gerry Pearce 55
Postcards of the Whaling Ships Kosmos and Pelagos sought by Terry Lay 55
PPHSGB Postal Auction September 2015 56-57
The Postal History of Adélie Land 1949-1959 58-66
HMS Endurance (ex. Polar Circle) up for sale 66
Southern Harvester; Further Southern Harvester and Southern Venturer Covers 67
Further Information on the Southern Venturer 67
10 Years BELARE (BELgian Antarctic Research Expedition) 68-73
MonacoPhil 2015 – 3rd to 5th December 2015 73
International Geological Congress Expedition to Spitsbergen 1910 74-75
The St. Roch; Canada – Baker Lake NWT – 20th October 1964 Hammer Type C1 76
New Issue – French Southern and Antarctic Territories – 60th Anniversary of TAAF 77
Recent New Issues 2015 – The Republic of Togo and the Republic of Guinea 77
New Issue – Canada – Discovery of the Wreck of HMS Erebus 77
Members’ Sales (Wrench Postcards) 77
Europhilex 13th to 16th May 2015 (Report) 78
For Sale: Joint Society Postcard for Europhilex 2015 78
Stop Press – New Issue – The Falkland Islands – Magellanic Penguins, Predators and Prey Part 4 78
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Joint Society Cover produced for Europhilex; Photos from the Joint PPHSGB and FIPSG Meeting at Europhilex 79
Wrench Postcards for Sale 79
New Issue – French Southern and Antarctic Territories – 60th Anniversary of TAAF 80
New Issue – Canada – Discovery of the Wreck of HMS Erebus 80
The Falkland Islands – Magellanic Penguins, Predators and Prey Part 4 80
Photos of †Martin B. Evans 1944-2015 – Former PPHSGB Treasurer and Accounts Examiner 80

Contents December 2015

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BAT – Centenary of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Part III; British Historic Huts; Whales 81
Sierra Leone – Centenary of the Endurance Expedition; USA- NVI Additional Ounce Stamp 82
The Falkland Islands, SG&SSI and BAT – Britain’s Longest Reigning Monarch 82
Texts
Contents; PPHS 2016 Cambridge Weekend 83
Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your Diary; Back Issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 84
Chairman’s Message; Membership News; PPHSGB AGM February 2016 85
PPHSGB Postal Auction December 2015 86-87
A Philatelic Voyage: USS Edisto and the NZ Trans-Antarctic Advance Party 88-89
The Polish in Antarctica, Part 1 90-94
Arctic Flight: Alaska to Spitsbergen 1928 – George H Wilkins & Carl B Eielsen 95
Increased Falkland Islands and British Antarctic Territory (BAT) postage rates from 1st January 2016 96
South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Postage Rates from 5th January 2015 96
The Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau is back online under a New Name and URL! 96
Long Run of Paper Issues of Polar Post Available 96
A new Variation on H.M.S. Endurance Cachet END1-06; Polar Post on DVD-ROM 1953 to 2015 97
New Issue: Ross Dependency – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 98
New Issues: The Falkland Islands, SG&SSI and BAT – Britain’s Longest Reigning Monarch 99
New Issue: Australian Antarctic Territory – The Dogs that Saved Macquarie Island 100
New Issue: United States of America – “Additional Ounce” Penguin Stamp 100
New Issue: Sierra Leone – The Endurance Expedition 1914-1917 100
New Issue: BAT – Centenary of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Part III 101
New Issue: BAT – British Historic Huts 102
New Issue: BAT – Whales 104
New Issue: French Southern and Antarctic Territories (TAAF) – “Les Oubliés de l’île Saint-Paul” 104
New Issue: French Southern and Antarctic Territories (TAAF) – 20 Years of Marion Dufresne 104
New Issue: The Falkland Islands – 20th Anniversary of the Elephant Seal Research Group 105
New Issues: Greenland – 19th October 2015; Bulgaria – 23rd October 2015 106
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The Falkland Islands – 20th Anniversary of the Elephant Seal Research Group 107
Greenland New Issues – 19th October 2015 107
AAT – The Dogs that Saved Macquarie Island 108
TAAF – Les Oubliés de l’île Saint-Paul; 20 Years Marion Dufresne 108
Ross Dependency – The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 108