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20th December 2010: AAT - Permanent Postal Cancellers for Cape Denison. Australia Post
has produced two new postal cancellers for use at Mawson's Huts at Cape Denison. Duplicate examples will be held at Kingston
Post Office, Tasmania 7050 for use on collectors' mail in the same way as the duplicate cancellers are employed for Casey,
Mawson, Davis and MacQuarie Island. It is expected that covers cancelled at Cape Denison will be available for purchase in
February 2011 on the return of the Mawson's Huts Foundation Expedition 2010/11.
15th December 2010 - New Issue
- South Georgia & SSI - Flora
Details of this issue will
be available at http://falklandstamps.com/
3rd December 2010 – New Issues – British Antarctic Territory
– Centenary of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913 (2 souvenir sheets each with 8 stamps) / Marine Biodiversity
(4 values plus a souvenir sheet with a further 4 values) / Antarctic Birds (6 values in se-tenant pairs):
All
three issues were released by BAT postal clerk Terry Lay at Rothera during the visit of the RRS James Clark Ross.
The issues are illustrated in grey-tone on pages 104 and 105 of the December issue of Polar Post.
Details of these issues
are available at http://falklandstamps.com/
25th November 2010 – December Polar Post
despatched: Herbert Lealman
was able to despatch the issue with numerous enclosures before the snow hit the UK. Please use the membership renewal form
to renew your membership promptly. PLEASE NOTE THE NEW RATES!
24th November 2010 - Cavendish Auction N° 733:
There are 19 Antarctic lots (315 to 333) that include items from the E.W. Bingham correspondence (British Graham Land Expedition
and FIDS era).
http://www.cavendish-auctions.com/
17th November 2010 - New Issue - Ross Dependency
- Whales: The issue comprises five individual stamps in sheets of 25 and a souvenir sheet containing all five stamps.
7th November 2010 –
Programme and Arrangements for the Cambridge Residential Weekend 2011 finalised: Trevor Cornford and Bill Tilbury have finalised the details and the Weekend will take
place from 16th to 18th September 2011 at the Royal Cambridge Hotel. Full information
with pricing and programme will appear in the December 2010 issue of Polar Post. The December issue will also include
a booking form.
6th November 2010 – PPHSGB Autumn Meeting at PHILATEX: The meeting will take place from 12.45 pm to 2.45
pm in Room 32 at the Horticultural Hall, corner Greycoat Street & Elverton Street, London, SW1. There will be a short
time for a Bring & Buy. Following this, there will be time for displays. Please bring material along with you for display,
even a few sheets. Non Members are welcome to attend and learn more about our Society.
4th November 2010 - New Issue - TAAF: One 0.56€ stamp (36x48 mm) has been issued to mark
the presence of TAAF at ‘Le salon de Champerret’ Paris from 4th to 7th November
2010. The stamp designed by Claude Perchat was issued in gummed perforated sheets of ten and as a sheet of ten self-adhesive
stamps. It is the first time that TAAF has issued a self-adhesive stamp.
25th October 2010 - New Issue - South Georgia & SSI - Penguins - Airmail Postcard Rate
30th
September 2010: New Issue - South Georgia & SSI - William Hodges: The Art of Discovery
 Details of this issue are available at http://falklandstamps.com/
26th September 2010: Antarctic
Cruise Itinerary for the RRS James Clark Ross and RRS Ernest Shackleton 2010/2011: The information published on page 82 of the September 2010 issue
of Polar Post for the James Clark Ross is no longer valid and the visits to Santa Cruz de Tenerife in September
and Ascension Island and Signy in October have been deleted. The latest itineraries for the ships are available on the British
Antarctic Survey (BAS) website but are hidden away under “Living and Working”, “Research Ships”, “Further
Information” etc. Thus the direct links to the “Latest Itinerary” pages of each ship have been added on
the “links” page of this website. On current plans, the Antarctic Postal Clerk will be on the cruise to Rothera
due to leave Stanley on 3rd November. The planned arrival at Rothera is one month later on 3rd December (new airmail
postage rates – airmail postcard 60p; airmail letter to 20gm 70p). The BAS Annual Report 2009/2010 is now available
for download (PDF format) on the home page of BAS.
26th September
2010: PPHSGB Residential Weekend Autumn 2011:
Plans are progressing and Bill Tilbury and Trevor Cornford are working on an arrangement with the Royal Cambridge Hotel, a
date for the event and the draft programme. It is hoped that an Application Form for the Weekend and the Draft Programme can
be sent out with the December issue of Polar Post.
29th July 2010 - The
"Publications" page has been updated to include the latest version of the Addenda to the book "Postmarks and
Cachets of the British Antarctic Bases and South Georgia" for free download. The "Polar Post" page has been
updated to include the Contents List of the September 2010 issue of Polar Post.
29th July 2010 -
"Display "Airships in the Arctic": Steve Allen's display presented at the Joint Meeting with the FIPSG
on 12th May 2010 is available here for free download for a limited period. The display is in Adobe PDF Format and the file
size is 4.9MB.
click here to download file
29th July 2010 - Swinpex 2010 - Joint Meeting with the FIPSG
- report by Kim Stuckey: 15 members of the FIPSG and PPHSGB met in an afternoon session after a morning browsing at the Swinpex
stamp fair on 12th June. The two societies also shared a stand at the fair.
Kim Stuckey kicked off the displays
with whaling covers from the various stations on South Georgia, plus South Shetlands and New Island. Carl Varnam then showed
a range of recent acquisitions mainly Falkland Islands postmarks on stamps, but also WFI cancels, outlying postage dues and
New Island cancellations. He also showed a Customs South Georgia mark on a 1937 Coronation ½d (different to the catalogued
mark) and fiscal use in 1961 from Leith Harbour to Terence Binnie.
Malcolm Barton studied the 1p Mail Ships in
booklets, including the green booklet now seen with the "hawse holes" varieties and the 3p different printings.
Morva White then showed 1933 Centenary photo essays alongside the stamps and a pamphlet produced for the celebrations. Hugh
Osborne then produced another Centenary pamphlet and the Penguin News cover for the Centenary Special Issue, together with
correct rate Centenary stamps on cover.
Alan Godfrey covered the life of Hubert Wilkins, from the Shackleton Quest
expedition, through his attempts to fly across the Arctic in 1926, his flights from Deception Island in 1928/29 and his submarine
expedition in the Nautilus in the early 1930's. This included the patronage and disputes with Randolph Hearst.
Trevor Cornford rounded off the session with the Discovery preparations and voyage in 1901-1902, with Sir Clement Markham
driving the construction of a new exploration ship. Trevor showed pictures of the construction, trials and Scott and Shackleton
on deck.
15th July 2010 -The Spink "Summer Collectors' Series"
Auction London. Lots 1791 to 1989 related to the Antarctic Collection of Peter Wordie. The estimates proved unreliable with
many items selling both well below and well above the estimated range. Thus there were bargains to be had for those attending
the sale. The catalogue and realisations are still available on the Spink Website:
http://www.spink.com/auctions/pdf/default.asp
25th June 2010 – New Issue South Georgia and SSI – Wrecks and Hulks
 Further details of this issue can be found at http://falklandstamps.com/
Note the higher values on the stamps as compared with previous issues. Postal rates for the Falkland Islands,
South Georgia &SSI and BAT are expected to rise from 1st July 2010 – more details in due course.
16th May 2010 – The London 2010 International
Stamp Exhibition was a great success for the PPHSGB! The event ended with 10 new members recruited on the spot and many more visitors to the stand expressing
an interest. The joint meeting with the FIPSG on 12th May was attended by over 60 people including the postmaster of the Falkland
Islands Moira Eccles and the postal officer of South Georgia Sarah Lurcock. PPHSGB Secretary Robert Hurst produced a special
cachet which was used at the stand and a special Shackleton postcard which was given away (one per visitor – extra copies
25p). The Society thanks in particular our Secretary Robert Hurst who took a week off work and was present on all 8 days.
Committee members John Youle and Robert McMillan were present on the stand for several days and Chairman Trevor Cornford and
librarian Gerald Marriner were heavily involved with the main exhibition.
The cachet
 The cachet
shows an albatross which is a visitor to the islands covered by the four Societies which shared the stand.
The postcard
The postcard shows the statue of Shackleton
outside the Royal Geographical Society in London with an insert of two 10/- Seahorses hand stamped with “GOUGH ISLAND”
and “S-R ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1921”. Each member of the PPHSGB will receive a mint card (without cachet) with
the September or December 2010 issue of Polar Post.
Moira Eccles and Sarah Lurcock also had special London
2010 cachets for the respective post offices.
12th
April 2010 – New Stamp Issue South Georgia &SSI – London 2010 Festival of Stamps
6th March 2010: Bransfield House at Port Lockroy run by the UKAHT closed at the end
of the 2009/2010 Antarctic summer season. The 4 ladies who have run the hut this season did a grand job writing online diaries
which can be seen at: http://www.ukaht.org/diaries.html. The hut and post office
will reopen for business in November 2010.
28th February 2010: Dr Phillip Law has died aged 97; he was one of Australia’s greatest Antarctic explorers; he took part in 23 expeditions,
established three A.N.A.R.E. bases and was responsible for charting 3,000 miles of coastline and some 800,000 square miles
of the interior. Obituaries have appeared in the International Press, for example at:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/7377938/Phillip-Law.html
November
2009 to March 2010 – UKAHT at Port Lockroy. Port Lockroy is one of
the most visited tourist sites within the area governed by the Antarctic Treaty and one of only a few to have a post office.
You can follow events at Port Lockroy on the UKAHT Website:http://www.ukaht.org/diaries.html
There is
a larger team this season and major building work is planned for January/February 2010 after the Gentoo Penguin chicks have
hatched. A Nissan Hut is to be erected to serve as accommodation for the UKAHT team. Please bear in mind when sending philatelic
requests to Port Lockroy (via the Post Office, Stanley, Falkland Islands, FIQQ 1ZZ) that the UKAHT is a registered charity
and the team is made up of volunteers. All donations are very welcome. Please also bear in mind that the possibilities for
getting mail from Stanley to Port Lockroy are limited and that the seasonal Port Lockroy Post Office closes at the beginning
of March and does not re-open before the first or second week of November.
1st January
2010: New Stamp Issues TAAF. 8 individual stamps and 2 souvenir sheets are to be issued. They can be viewed in colour
at:http://www.taaf.fr/rubriques/philatelie/timbres/philatelie_timbres.htm
23rd December 2009: New Stamp Issue: The
Centenary of the South Georgia Post Office – Details with illustrations in colour of the issue are
available at: http://falklandstamps.com/
9th December 2009: Grosvenor Auction, Session 2 at 2pm.
This session included lots 554 to 813 relating to the Falkland
Islands and Dependencies (including South Georgia) and lots 814 to 849 relating to Antarctica.
There were some superb classic items available as well as more modern lots. The highlight among
the Antarctic items was Lot 826, an envelope sent by Titus Oates to his mother bearing two “Victoria Land” 1d
stamps cancelled 9th February 1911 (9 FE 11). This item realised £3200 against an estimate of £1000 to £1200.The auction catalogue and realisations are available in PDF format on the Grosvenor
Auctions Website: http://www.grosvenorauctions.com/
3rd December
2009: Centenary of the Opening of the Post Office on South Georgia. The earliest postmark date recorded is 22nd December
1909 and the first post was despatched on the SS Cachalote on 23rd December 1909. A postal canceller of the Falkland Islands
was used in combination with a one-line hand stamp reading SOUTH GEORGIA.
 Postcard sent with
the First Post from South Georgia postmarked on 22nd December 1909 with Falkland Islands’ Canceller F.4D and bearing
the large SOUTH GEORGIA Imprint (ex. Heijtz).
1st December 2009: 50th Anniversary of the signing of the
Antarctic Treaty in Washington D.C. by 12 Nations. To date Chile (EXPO ANTARTICA $270 stamp issued 18th March 2009), BAT (Antarctic
Fauna – six stamps issued 6th November 2009), Ross Dependency (five stamps issued 25th November 2009) and TAAF
(€0.56 Penguins and map issued 1st December 2009) have issued stamps relating to the event. In the past most countries
have commemorated the entry into force of the Treaty on 23rd June 1961 and thus further issues are expected in 2011.
 25th November 2009: New
Issue Ross Dependency: 50th Anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty - Details with illustrations in colour of the issue
are available at:http://stamps.nzpost.co.nz/Cultures/en-NZ/
18th November 2009: The December issue
of Polar Post was distributed ahead of schedule
despite the recent strike action by postal workers. The issue includes 2010 Calendar Cards for the Falkland Islands and South
Georgia kindly provided by Tim Underwood of Creative Direction (Worldwide)
Ltd on behalf of the respective post offices. A Membership Renewal Form is also enclosed. Please pay your 2010 subscriptions
promptly.
9th November 2009: New
Issue South Georgia: Corals - Details with illustrations in colour of the issue are available at: http://falklandstamps.com/
6th November 2009:
Three new BAT stamp issues were released at Signy by this season’s Antarctic Postman Hugh Marsden – Crabeater
Seals; 50th Anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty and Climatic Change/Ice Shelf Changes. Details with illustrations
in colour of these issues are available at: http://falklandstamps.com/
19th October 2009: HMS Endurance is still high and dry undergoing a survey to assess the costs of repairs estimated at
over £20 Million. The ship is thus not going anywhere at the moment and some newspaper reports suggest that she may
be scrapped. HMS Endurance will be replaced by the aptly named Ocean Survey Vessel
HMS Scott (H131) for the 2009/2010 Antarctic summer season. The ship will sail south shortly under the captaincy of Commander
G. Hesling.
12th October 2009: The Society has learnt of the passing of former member Robert F. “Bob” Barnes FRPSL. Bob
was a founder member of the Falkland Islands Philatelic Study Group and has published a number of books and articles relating
to the Postal History of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies. An appreciation of Bob’s contribution to the two Societies
and Philately at large will be published in the March 2010 issues of Upland Goose and Polar Post.
14th
August 2009: South Georgia & SSI Definitive Stamp Issue: Shackleton
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