Polar Post

The PPHSGB’s First Newsletter appeared in February 1953. The fourth newsletter issued in July 1953 bore the title “The Polar Post”, shortened to “Polar Post” from the fifth newsletter onwards. The name has stuck and the title remains today, over 200 issues later. Since 1993 Polar Post has been published in A4 booklet format by Quacks the Printers in York, England. A major change occurred at the beginning of 2007 with the introduction of full electronic publishing using Adobe Indesign CS3 software which has enabled all illustrations to be printed in grey tone, greatly improving the appearance and clarity.

Polar Post is distributed to members only at the beginning of March, June, September and December. It is not available for sale to non-members.

A CD-ROM in PDF format containing all issues of Polar Post from 1997 to date, over 60 issues, is available to members only at a price of £20 including postage and packing worldwide. Please contact the editor jyoule@hotmail.de

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Polar Post, N°232, March 2012 - Contents (The issue should be despatched between 21st and 29th February 2012)

Note: This is a special ‘Scott at the South Pole' issue.

• Scott's Party at the South Pole 17th January 1912 (front cover)
• Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright
• Notice of the PPHSGB AGM 21st April 2012; Chairman's Message; Editorial
• Captain Scott's Last Antarctic Expedition 1909 - 1913 PART 10 - The South Pole found but ‘Runners Up'! Letters taken back to NZ via Terra Nova
• Philatelic Items relating to the Attainment of the South Pole by Scott's Party and subsequent Tragic Death
• Modern Stamps, Labels and Postmarks relating to Robert Falcon Scott's 1909-1913 Terra Nova Expedition
• New Issue - Ross Dependency - Race to the Pole - 2nd November 2011
• British Antarctic Territory - £2 Coin Commemorating the Terra Nova Expedition
• New Issue - United Kingdom - The Age of the Windsors and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - 2nd February 2012
• Special Scott's Party at the South Pole Postmark in Kiel, Germany, 17th January 2012
• Special Postmarks Commemorating the Centenary of the Conquest of the South Pole by the Norwegians
• New Issues and a Special Postmark Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Fridtjof Nansen
• The PPHSGB Residential Weekend in Cambridge 16th to 18th September 2011 - Part 2: Members Entertain
• Layout Errors in the December 2011 issue of Polar Post
• Arctic - Canada NWT: SS Distributor - Vice Regal Visit to the Mackenzie River area 1937
• Auckland Islands - A Postal History to 1950
• Sheila Scott's World and over the North Pole Flight 1971 - a further cover
• ‘Robert Falcon Scott' Philatelic Displays
• Events and Exhibitions during 2012 relating to Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition
• Centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914 Part 1 - Departure from Hobart, Tasmania, and Establishment of the three Bases
• The Mawson's Huts Conservation Expedition 2011/2012 Cancelled
• Mawson Centenary Voyage on the Aurora Australis - January 2012
• Further Philatelic Items from the Mawson's Huts Foundation
• The Storied Ice - Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in Antarctica's Peninsula Region (book review)
• Tristan Da Cunha - 50th Anniversary of the Volcanic Eruption and Evacuation - 8th to 11th October 1961
• Membership News
• New Issue - Falkland Islands - Gentoo Penguins, Predators and Prey
• Further TAAF ‘Out of Programme' New Issues 2011
• New Issues - TAAF - January 2012
• Recent Issues 2009-2011: Mozambique - IPY; Bequia (St. Vincent Grenadines) and Micronesia "South Pole"
• Recent Issue 2011 - Tristan da Cunha - Atlantic Odyssey - MV Plancius
• Antarctic Tourism in decline - (based on Press Releases from IAATO and GSGSSI)
• Polar 2012 - Schwarzenberg, Germany - 8th and 9th September 2012