Your browser does not seem to support iframes. Click here to read this PDF. Convert your PDF to digital flipbook ↗ Contents June 2015 Colour Illustrations 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 Colour Illustrations 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

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