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Go here to see McMurdo Station's Philatelic Club cachet, Mid-Late 1970's
Click on banner to go to the Polar Philately project website.
(formerly the Polar Philately Mailing List website)
The Polar Philately E-mail discussion list is at Yahoo Groups:
American Society of Polar Philatelists members may recall illustrations of some of the
covers I used to own, 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
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
Polar
Bear Local Post, Alaska
Friendship Flight 1988; Nome
to Provideniya
Link to a Russian Blog (From Russia With Love) with history of Russian Drifting
Ice Islands; Interesting
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
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.)
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
LOCAL POSTS
My
Own: Spring River Local Post
McDonald
Territory Private Dispatch (1961): Going On 50
The Cape Kennedy and
Satellite Beach Local Posts, Reprint from First Days
Another Classic Modern-Day
Local Post; Brook Hill Local Service, Brook Hill Dairy
Polar News Ticker
News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
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 from the teacher...to be technically correct, you would not illustrate these two animals on the same ice floe! Although often depicted in that fashion, these animals come from totally opposite ends of the globe...
Go to a separate page with additional suggested Polar and Polar Philately Links
Click on the banner immediately below to visit a highly recommended site with Antarctic products and souvenirs for the polar buff--You'll think you were there!
The Antarctic Connection
Also for a bit of background on myself: I am a former member (#2406) of the American Society of Polar Philatelists (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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