Polar Post 2023
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New Issue: British Antarctic Territory – Maiden Voyage of RRS Sir David Attenborough 01; 26
Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your Diary; Note on Copyright 02
Contents; Editorial with News of the Antarctic Summer Season 2022/2023 03
Chairman’s Message; †Rolf Kardel, Hanover: 6th February 1935 – Early October 2022 04
†Billy-Ace “Penguin” Baker, 1936-2022 05
“Dr Charcot and Pourquoi-Pas? – a Guernsey Mystery?” (Newly Discovered Postcards) 05-06
The Failed Austrian Antarctic Expedition 1985/86 06-07
Navy to the Rescue – the resupply of Macquarie Island by HMAS Stalwart 08-09
HMAS Perth – Mercy Mission to Macquarie Island; Membership News 10
U.S.S. North Star 11-13
European Stamp Exhibition and Polar Salon Liberec 2022 14-17
Two Previously Unreported “Endurance” Postcards; Non-Philatelic Polar Books 18
New Issue: Norway 1st October 2022 – 150th Anniversary of the Arctic University Museum of Norway 19
New Issue: British Antarctic Territory: Airmail Postcard Rate – Emperor Penguin Chick 19
New Issue 23rd June 2022: Monaco – Centenary of the Death of Prince Albert I of Monaco; Albert I and Spitsbergen 20
New Issue 16th August 2022: Argentina – Argentina in Antarctica 20
New Issue 11th November 2022; Romania – 75th Anniversary of the Death of Emil Racoviță 21
New Issue 24th November 2022: Monaco – Centenary of the Death of Prince Albert 1st of Monaco 21
New Issues: Greenland – 11th November 2022 22
New Issues: January 2023 – French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FSAT/TAAF) 23-25
New Issue: Russia 25th November 2022 – Series “Arctic Tourism” – The village of Teriberka, Murmansk Region 26
Omnibus Issue 15th February 2023: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022 (Ascension Island;
British Antarctic Territory; South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands; The Falkland Islands; Tristan da Cunha) 27-28
PDF Supplement to Polar Post, N°276, March 2023
This Supplement contains the following information and articles:
Correction to an Error in the Printed Edition of Polar Post, March 2023, Page 02 28A
Correction to the Location of Swinpex 2023 28A
Delay in Despatch of the Printed Polar Post March 2023 28A
An Update to the Article on Pages 05 & 06 of the Printed March 2023 issue of Polar Post 28B
Book: “Jean-Batiste Charcot en Antarctique”/“Jean-Batiste Charcot in the Antarctic” by Serge Kahn FRPSL 28C
Book: “The Antarctic Compendium” by Steve Bennett 28C
Recent Non-Philatelic Polar Books 28D-28E
New Issue 21st February 2023: Norway – Svalbard 28E
New Issues 27th February 2023: Greenland 28F
New Issue 6th March 2023: The Falkland Islands – The Paintings of Mike Peake Part 3 – Scenery 28G
New Issue 13th March 2023: British Antarctic Territory – Frozen Planet II 28H-28I
New Issue 13th March 2023: South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands: Frozen Planet II 28I-28J
Frozen Planet II 2022 – The Documentary Series of Six Programmes 28J
33rd International Philatelic Exhibition Essen IBRA 25th to 28th May 2023 /40 Years Polarstern Postmark and Stamps 28K
Flyer for SWINPEX 2023 28L
Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your Diary; Note on Copyright 30
Contents; Membership News; Polish Antarctic Stickers 31
Chairman’s Message 32
Polar Postal History Society of GB – Annual General Meeting 2023 – Draft/Provisional Agenda; SWINPEX 2023 33
Polar Postal History Society of GB – Accounts for the Year Ending 31st December 2022 34
Reports of the Treasurer, Hon. Secretary and Membership Secretary for the Year 2022 35
Report of the Webmaster for 2022 36-38
Report of the Editor of Polar Post for 2022 38
The Norwegian Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1990/1991 39
An Orphan Stamp – The 2½D Falkland Islands Dependencies Thin Maps Stamp 40-41
An Unusual Cover bearing the Thin Maps 2½D Value plus a mixture of Thin and Thick Maps Stamps 41
The Rescue of the Belgian Crew of a crashed Auster A2 plane in Antarctica 1958 during the I.G.Y. Expedition 42-43
Postcard from Signy 2023 with Invalid Stamps 43
The Belgian “South Through the Pole Expedition” 4th November 1997 to 10th February 1998 44-45
Complimentary Banquet to Capt. Roald Amundsen in the Hotel Cecil, 26th September 1925 45-47
Further Information to the Article “The Failed Austrian Antarctic Expedition 1985/86” 48
Who is the Third Man? – A photograph showing Shackleton, Amundsen and ?? 48
An Update to the Article “Dr Charcot and Pourquoi-Pas? – a Guernsey Mystery?” – Polar Post, March 2023, Pages 5 & 6 49
New Issues: Greenland 27th February and 15th April 2023 50
New Issue: Austria – 150th Anniversary of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition 1872-1874 50
New Issue: The Falkland Islands – The Paintings of Mike Peake Part 3 – Scenery 51
New Issue: Norway – Svalbard 51
New Issue: British Antarctic Territory – Frozen Planet II 52-53
New Issue: South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands: Frozen Planet II 53-54
Frozen Planet II 2022 – The Documentary Series of Six Programmes 54
New Issue: Australian Antarctic Territory – Sidney Nolan’s Antarctica 55
MS Polarstern German Postage Stamps produced on behalf of Arbeitsgemeinschaft Polarphilatelie e.V. 56
Special Postmark sponsored by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Polarphilatelie e.V. for IBRA 2023 in Essen 56
In the Footsteps of Scott Expedition 1984 to 1986 Front Cover (57); 62-67
Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your Diary; Note on Copyright 58
Contents; A Letter sent from Port Lockroy to Ny-Ålesund bearing a Previously unreported Port Lockroy Cachet 59
Chairman’s Message; Membership News; PPHSGB Annual General Meeting 2023 60
Proposed Changes to the Constitution of the Polar Postal History Society of Great Britain (PPHSGB) 61
Geoff rey Barber Closes His Philatelic Sales Service 61
New Postage Rates for the Falkland Islands from 1st July 2023 67
Whaling in the Ross Sea 68-74
The Adventures of the Terra Nova – from lowly Whaler to Exploring Vessel 74-75
Roald Amundsen, the newspaper “Tidens Tegn” and the Norwegian Aero Club 76-79
New Issue 10th July 2023: Greenland - The 250th Anniversary of Qeqertarsuaq 79
Response to “An Orphan Stamp” (Polar Post, June 2023 Pages 40&41) and a further Cover 80-82
New Issue 24th June 2023: FSAT/TAAF Three Stages in the Life Cycle of Southern Elephant Seals 83
New Issue 22nd September 2022: Russia - Nuclear-Powered Ice Breakers Arktika and Sibir 83
New Issue 29th November 2022: Moldova - Personalities Who Changed World History - Roald Amundsen 1872 to 1928 84
New Issue 30th January 2023: Kyrgyzstan - The Anniversaries of Great Personalities - Roald Amundsen 84
New Issues 30th May 2023: Greenland 84
PDF Supplement to Polar Post, N°278, September 2023
This Supplement contains the following information and articles:
PPHSB Annual General Meeting 2023 On Thursday 28th September 2023 at Autumn Stampex 84A
The “In The Footsteps of Scott Expedition 1984-1986” - The Folder Containing the 8 Covers 84B-84G
The “In The Footsteps of Scott Expedition 1984-1986” - Patrons and Personnel 84H
The 2023/24 Programme for the RRS Sir David Attenborough 84I
New Issue 29th November 2022: Moldova - Personalities Who Changed World History - Roald Amundsen 1872 to 1928 84J
New Issue 30th January 2023 - Kyrgyzstan: Roald Amundsen - Maximum Card and FDC 84K
New Issue 7th July 2023: Tristan da Cunha - 100th Anniversary of St Mary’s Church 84K-84L
New Issue 9th August 2023: Tristan da Cunha - Penguins 84L-84N
New Issue 11th August 2023: Greenland - ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen and the Raven 84N
Results of The Falkland Islands Penguin Stamp Competition 84O
New Issues: The Bahamas, Ascension Island, The British Antarctic Territory, The Falkland Islands,
South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands and Tristan da Cunha - The Coronation of King Charles III 84P-84S
New Issue 22nd August 2023: Australian Antarctic Territory - Antarctic Circumnavigation 250 Years 84T
75th Anniversary of the Opening of the ANARE Macquarie Island Research Station - ANARE CLUB Cover 84T
New Issues – Front Cover and Pages 106-108 85; 106-108
Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your Diary; Note on Copyright 86
Contents; EuroPhilEx Birmingham 2025 87
Chairman’s Message; Membership News; New Base Discovered in Antarctica 88
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) PPHSGB held on Thursday 28th September 2023 89
Southern Thule; Southern Thule – Additional Cover and Postcard 90-94
British Antarctic Expedition 1910 – 1913: Victoria Land Overprint on ½D New Zealand King Edward VII Stamp 95-97
25th Anniversary of The Belgian “South Through the Pole Expedition” 97
South Atlantic Deployment of HMS Hecate A137 1982-1983 98-99
Oceanic Research Foundation Antarctic Expedition 1982 – 1984 100-101
How we reached the South Pole – Roald Amundsen’s Lecture Tour in the UK 1912 102-105
New Issue 9th October 2023: South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands – Candlemas Islands 85; 106
New Issues: The Coronation of King Charles III – A Six Country Omnibus 85; 106-107
New Issue 3rd October 2023: The Falkland Islands – King Penguin 85; 107
New Issues Greenland 11th August and all other Issues 28th August 2023 107
New Issue 6th September 2023: Ross Dependency – Scott Base – Home on Ross Island 108
New Issue 22nd August 2023: Australian Antarctic Territory – Antarctic Circumnavigation 250 Years 108
PDF Supplement to Polar Post, N°279, December 2023
This Supplement contains the following information and articles:
Contents of the Supplement; Important Notice Concerning Pobjoy Mint Ltd. 108A
A personal involvement with South Georgia stamps by Tim Heilbronn BSc (Hons)., MSc. 108B-108D
Postal Rates for FI, BAT and SGSSI as of 1st July 2023 108E
Yvert&Tellier Catalogue 2023 for The French Southern and Antarctic Territories FSAT/TAAF 108F
“Operation Tabarin and its Postal History” published 2018 by Gerry Pearce 108G
80th Anniversary of Operation Tabarin – Grosvenor Auction N°155, 28th November 2023, Lots 473 to 501 108H to 108J
Postmarks and Cachets of the British Antarctic Bases and South Georgia etc. PDF 108K
BAS Leaflet British-Antarctic-Stations-Refuges-v6.2-2016 108K
Availability of Australian Antarctic Territory Cancelled Base Covers 108K
New Issue 10th October 2023 – Greenland: World Migratory Bird Day 108L
New Issue 15th October 2023 – Greenland: HRH Prince Christian’s 18th birthday 108L
New Issues 10th November 2023 – Greenland 108M
New Issue 18th October 2023: The Czech Republic – František Běhounek 108N
New Issue 6th December 2021 – Austria: Stop Climate Change Souvenir Sheet 108O
New Issue 8th November 2023: FSAT/TAAF Centenary of the Scientifi c Expedition to Kerguelen
by Étienne and Lionel Peau in 1923-1924 108O/P
New Issue 8th November 2023: FSAT/TAAF: Stamp Booklet – A Voyage of the Marion Dufresne 108P
New Issue 3rd November 2023 – The Falkland Islands: 40th Anniversary
of the Falkland Islands Development Corporation (FIDC) 108Q/R
New Issue 19th November 2023: British Antarctic Territory – UK Antarctic Heritage Trust
30 Years of Conserving and Inspiring 108S/T
New Issue 19th November 2023: British Antarctic Territory Emperor Penguins, Letter and Postcard Rates 108T/U
New Issue 19th November 2023: British Antarctic Territory
60th Anniversary of the First British Antarctic Territory Stamps 108V