KGØYH's
Polar Philately Page
and Polar
Postal History
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- American Society of
Polar Philatelists
members may recall illustrations of some of my
covers in past issues of their publication Ice
Cap News. Volume 30, Number 3, has the McGuire
Polar Expedition featured via an
illustration of one of my covers from that 1985
venture. In Volume 30, Number 4, the Masako
Izumi North Pole Expedition and some
other covers of mine made the issue. Back issues
of ICN should be available from the ASPP past
issue sales department, or possibly available for
inter-library loan from the American Philatelic Research
Library.
Autographed Cover
from the Masako Izumi North Pole Expedition of 1985
POLAR
COVER GALLERY NORTH
Airship Graf Zeppelin
meets the Icebreaker Malyguin
Jacobsen-McGill Univ. Arctic Research
Expedition 1961
U.S. Army Polar Research and Development Center-Camp Century (1963)
The Plaisted Polar Expedition(s), 1967-8...
90' North by Snowmobile
Kenting Earth Sciences PolarQuest '72
Other Contemporary North Pole Expeditions
Japanese Explorer N. Uemura Conquers Mt.
McKinley, Dies in Process
AGASP North Pole Flights by NOAA
Marginal Ice Zone Experiment (MIZEX) 1984
A Modern-Day Alaskan Dog Team Cover
Classic Arctic Covers, USN and USCG
Arctic Helo Flights, USCG Icebreakers
Ice Islands: Fletcher's T-3 / Drift Station Bravo 
ARLIS II Arctic Research Laboratory Ice
Station: EVACUATION
Arctic Submarines; Northwest Passages,
including Surface Vessels
US Submarines at the North Pole in the
1990's ICEX and SCICEX
Canadian Ice Island Project Covers, 1980's
Canadian Ice Island Flight Covers
Barrow Saves the Whales, Really
Territorial Alaskan Covers, Including Will Rogers/Wiley
Post Memorial at Barrow, Alaska
High Arctic Dive Safari, SCUBA @ Resolute,
NWT
Sir Hubert G. Wilkins' 1957 Bi-Polar Flight
A Classic Spitsbergen/Kings Bay Postcard
from the 1930's
Modern Spitsbergen; Cruises, Expeditions
Soviet Events, Stations, Icebreakers
Odds and Ends from Greenland
Polar Bear Local Post, Alaska
POLAR
COVER GALLERY SOUTH
Byrd Antarctic Expedition III: Snow
Cruiser Cover
Some less-commonly seen covers from
Operation Highjump
A Secret
U.S. Post Office in Antarctica
Classic Antarctic Covers, Including WAGB's/Deep
Freeze I, II, III
Byrd Station/Byrd Surface Camp 1956-1989
Little America Covers
U.S. Naval Nuclear Power Unit Detachment
PM-3A
Chapel of the Snows and Chaplain Mail
Antarctic Flight Covers, including USCG AVDETs and
VXE-6
And you thought it was just the NAVY in Antarctica?
Wrong Again...
Various Antarctic Resupply Vessels,
including R/V Hero
Antarctic Tourism, 1960's and forward
Vessels & markings of the Greenpeace
Organization
Antarctica labels, local post stamps,
Snowmobile mail
Winter-Over Cachets, Operation Deep Freeze
McMurdo Station Mail 1984-85, the "Wacky"
episodes: Church of the Sub-Genius, et al.
Communications Cachets, QSL's, Antarctic Radio
Cape Hallett Cachets up to the Cape
Hallett Expedition of 1984-6
Cachets, Covers from Siple Station
Joint U.S./French Antarctic Projects 1980's
French Southern and Antarctic Territories (T.A.A.F.)
Falkland Islands Page
J.A.R.E. Japanese Antarctic Page
Antarctic Scuba Diving, US Diving Project
Covers from US Antarctic Research Program
Covers from New Zealand Antarctic Research
Program
Coming: Antarctic Stations 1980's-90's
Polar
News Ticker: Keywords: North Pole, Arctic, Antarctic,
Exploration
POLAR TRIVIA
FOR CASUAL VISITORS:
Yes, something a true polar enthusiast knows
is this one fact, if nothing else, so don't forget it:
Penguins are found only in the continent of
Antarctica (well, technically, there are some sub-Antarctic
islands in the southern hemisphere that also have
penguins)-- and as to polar bears... well, they are
found only in the Arctic regions, not in Antarctica. So if you
happened to stumble upon this page as you are doing a class project or something like
that, gain an extra point...to be technically correct, you would not
illustrate these two animals on the same ice floe! Although often
depicted in that fashion, they come from
totally opposite ends of the globe...
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- Also for a bit of background on myself, I am a former member (#2406) of
ASPP. I was fairly active in the 1980's, but as those
who know me or who have read my main homepage know--I
tend to bounce in and out of hobbies, as I have
several. I have been a polar cover collector since
the early 1980's. I might get around to
rejoining ASPP some day. (Of course, I'm also a
member of the American Society of Procrastinators; #
678)
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