Dear Colleagues,
I propose for exchange or/and sale  some Soviet Arctic/Antarctic postal
stationery, letters, fdc, speciallly cancelled covers/cards, etc - l, please,
ook on modern  part of them/ Please, send your answers to my personal address -
vm2000@... Thank you. Regards, Veniamin Kramer, Ukraine.

Dear list members.

As many of you will know, the East Coast of the South Island of New Zealand
has recently had some unusual visitors when Antarctic Icebergs became
visible from the New Zealand mainland for the first time since 1931.

An armada of nearly 200 icebergs which have come all the way from the
Weddell sea on the opposite side of the antarctic continent are currently
working their way up the east coast providingf spectacular sights for the
many people who get to see them. While the biggest bergs have been visible
from high hills on the mainland near Dunedin it is by taking an aircraft
flight and particularly a helicopter flight that the true majesty of the
icebergs can be seen. some are up to 1km long and many are several hundred
meters tall. Some of the helicopter flights have landed on the bergs
although this is dangerous as they are becomming increasingly unstable as
they melt in the warmer waters.

I have created a web page showing some of these bergs plus also offering
some special postcards carried on the berg flights. this can be seen at
http://www.newzeal.com/theme/heli/Icebergflight.htm

Regards and seasons greetings to all.

Steven

STEVEN McLACHLAN,
SHADES STAMP SHOP LTD,
1A SHADES ARCADE,
108 HEREFORD St,
CHRISTCHURCH,
NEW ZEALAND.
  Phone (64) 33666390     Fax (64) 33746001
email ;steve@...
ICQ number 3575600
Check out the Antarctic Philately from New Zealand website at
http://www.newzeal.com/steve/antarctica.htm
see recent Antarctic news at
http://www.newzeal.com/theme/antarctic/2000news.htm



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Steven:

Well done. Assuming that you will leave that web page up for some time I
will run a link to it in the Jan-Mar 2007 issue of the Explorer's  Gazette.

Billy-Ace

In a message dated 12/3/2006 6:07:29 AM Central Standard Time,
steve@... writes:

Dear  list members.

As many of you will know, the East Coast of the South  Island of New Zealand
has recently had some unusual visitors when Antarctic  Icebergs became
visible from the New Zealand mainland for the first time  since 1931.

An armada of nearly 200 icebergs which have come all the  way from the
Weddell sea on the opposite side of the antarctic continent  are currently
working their way up the east coast providingf spectacular  sights for the
many people who get to see them. While the biggest bergs  have been visible
from high hills on the mainland near Dunedin it is by  taking an aircraft
flight and particularly a helicopter flight that the  true majesty of the
icebergs can be seen. some are up to 1km long and many  are several hundred
meters tall. Some of the helicopter flights have landed  on the bergs
although this is dangerous as they are becomming increasingly  unstable as
they melt in the warmer waters.

I have created a web  page showing some of these bergs plus also offering
some special postcards  carried on the berg flights. this can be seen  at
http://www.newzeal.com/theme/heli/Icebergflight.htm

Regards and  seasons greetings to all.

Steven






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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/posts.html?pg=2

Icy Reception

THE COMPUTER ROOM IN THE Amundsen-Scott South Pole
Station still smells of fresh paint and new furniture.
With its gray carpets, soft lighting, and a couple of
artificial plants, it could be the lobby of a modestly
prosperous law firm. But the brutal white reflection
of an ice desert filtering through tiny tinted windows
reminds me that I'm at the bottom of the globe, a long
way from everywhere.

Even so, I click Send and an email message – with an
ego shot of me standing at the metal post that marks
the actual pole's location – flits off to the
Internet. A year ago, it wouldn't have been so easy.
Back then, messages downloaded at glacial speeds. (I
know, I know. But that's what passes for humor down
here.)

"Now we're transmitting 15 gigs per day, and every
room has a data port with Ethernet service," says Pat
Smith, manager of technology development for Antarctic
infrastructures and logistics at the National Science
Foundation. In 2005, the phones were upgraded to voice
over IP. "It's been quite a ride. I mean, I was here
in 1985 putting in the very first satellite links we
had," Smith says. "Then we had a whopping 200
kilobytes a day." That's about 3 percent the size of
an MP3 of "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

Like the rest of us, the 150 people who spend summers
at the Pole always crave more bandwidth. They'd sure
like to have BitTorrent to help endure winter's
eternal night. But really, it's work that's pushing
the scientists to build out connectivity at the
station – a collection of facilities raised on
hydraulic stilts that seems like the prototype for a
Mars colony. By 2014, when a 33-foot-diameter
submillimeter radio telescope, a neutrino detector,
and other equipment come online, researchers expect to
be generating a terabyte of data each day. "These
telescope numbers are something that we would never
have conceived of 10 years ago," Smith says, pointing
at a chart of rapidly climbing red bars. "This is
really driving what we're doing."

It's not an easy job. The Pole – aka 90 South – is
3,000 miles from the closest submarine cable
connection in New Zealand. Amundsen-Scott relies on
the aging Iridium communications constellation plus
three miscellaneous satellites wobbling far enough out
of their geosynchronous orbits to exchange signals
with the station. For now, they provide high-speed
service some 11 hours a day and low-speed connectivity
the rest of the time. "People can check their bank
accounts, pay bills, and buy stock over the Internet,"
says Erik Kawasaki, a network engineer. "In November,
the satellite pass begins at around 3 am New Zealand
time, so they have to wake up early to use it. That is
about the only gripe."

After a three-hour plane ride back to McMurdo Station
– the main US base in Antarctica – I settle in at one
of 300 workstations to email yet another picture of me
on the ice. The furniture at McMurdo is older, and the
station is more crowded – less like Mars and more like
a state university. But every so often, the same
bone-chilling sense of distance seeps in. Clad in his
Carhartt parka, laborer Edgardo Alfonso Vega leans
over from the neighboring desk: "Once this season, we
were cut off from the world for 27 hours. Something
happened, and there was no off-continent connectivity.
No phones, no Internet, no nothing," he says. "That's
when we felt really, really isolated."

– Angela Posada-Swafford


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is now available online. This is the largest auction
the society has conducted in some time, with 437 lots.
The link below will lead to the catalog, which
contains several links to scans of some of the lots.

http://www.chrisjenner.org/ASPP/asppauc90.htm

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use the bid sheet at the end of the catalog that was
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Allan B Crawford, a name that will forever be associated with Tristan Da
Cunha, died in England on Monday at the age of 95.



John Youle. Editor of Polar Post.

John:

I recently puchased a copy of his book Penguins, Potatoes, and Postage
Stamps.

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Dear friends
   Just to inform that the Chilean Post Office at Frei base in King George Island
(Antarctica) is not receiving the IRC (International Response Coupons).
   For collectors, take the advise in mind, because the letters are not being
delivered from there...
   regards
   antawa

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Dear Colleagues,

Will you please to look on  little selection from  my Soviet Polar
covers and cards - placed in Internet's photoalbum on the address -
                   :
                         http://kramer.io.com.ua/album25550


I beg your pardon for the quality of copies - some of them have been
done by photocamera (no scanner).

Best regards,
Veniamin Kramer, Kiev, Ukraine.
www.kramer.boom.ru

You will be interested to know that the Oded Eliashar collection of
Arctic & Antarctic airmail covers will be sold at Nutmeg Auction on 3
April. See the following website for all the lots:
http://www.nutmegstamp.com/Sale_138/TOC.html

There are some major rarities, including lots of Spitzbergen & Alaska
material.

If you have a website, I would appreciate it if you will post this
information there and forward this email to all polar philatelists you
know.

Regards,

Ken Sanford

Here's the picture cover
<http://www.zhuanti.net/ztbbs/UploadFile/20073231514147909.jpg>

Are these cachets really cancelled in the station or they were just
being processed at one of the mail proces sing facilities here in the
US??  I am just really curious.





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These cachets are all applied at the Amundsen- Scott South Pole station by
the Post office there and were all new for the last season.



Regards,



Steven



From: polarphilately@yahoogroups.com [mailto:polarphilately@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of yanlovstamps
Sent: Sunday, 25 March 2007 9:43 a.m.
To: polarphilately@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [polarphilately] Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station




Here's the picture cover
<http://www.zhuanti.net/ztbbs/UploadFile/20073231514147909.jpg>

Are these cachets really cancelled in the station or they were just
being processed at one of the mail proces sing facilities here in the
US?? I am just really curious.

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Thank you very much for your answer.   Maybe I'll send in a couple of
covers for some of my friends.

Results of ASPP Auction 90 have been compiled and are
available on the web at
http://www.chrisjenner.org/ASPP/asppauc90r.htm

Remember, in the case of tie bids, lots went to the
earlier bidder, and any bids that didn't fall on
bidding increments were lowered to the next increment.


I'll be working on invoices the next few days, and
hope to start shipping lots out to winners this coming
weekend.

Thanks to all who participated, both consignors and
bidders!

Best Regards/
-- Chris




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may be of interest to this list regarding a new book
about US - Canada drifting stations.

Regards/
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Apparently our list is set up to not allow
attachments. Franco Giardini asked that I forward
information that may be of interest to this list
regarding a new book about US - Canada drifting
stations. Please contact Franco for more information.

Regards/
-- Chris


NEW  BOOK

Our new book  "STARS , STRIPES & ICE", in english, is
the history and postal history of the USA-Canada
drifting stations, of the icebreakers and submarines
in Arctic.

310  pages , all photo-colour, the same size of the
last book on the sovietic drifting stations, a lot of
tables etc..

You  can contact  Franco GIARDINI-Ass.GRANDE NORD
                             Via Avigliana  72
                            10096  LEUMANN (TO) -
ITALY

               franco.giardini@...

The price , special price is 76  $  USA  .





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This should be a simple question to answer, but I've been unable to
find it online or in any of my books. I believe that the tiny post
office in my village (Carcross, Yukon) holds the title, and would
appreciate any information any of you might have to support or reject
that claim. It was built in 1905, and has operated continuously as a
post office ever since.

Thanks and best regards,

Murray

ExploreNorth.com
Discover the circumpolar North, from Alaska to Greenland and Siberia
http://www.explorenorth.com

Hi Murray,

If you mean to say that the Carcross post office has been housed in
the same premises since 1905 then that is quite a record. However,
Canada has had post offices that go back to the late 1700's.
In most instances the physical location of the post office changes as
demands for its service grow and new facilities are needed.

Gus Knierim

At 05:58 AM 5/31/2007, you wrote:
>If you mean to say that the Carcross post office has been housed in
>the same premises since 1905 then that is quite a record. However,
>Canada has had post offices that go back to the late 1700's. In most
>instances the physical location of the post office changes as
>demands for its service grow and new facilities are needed.


Yes, Canada has many post office buildings that date back much
further, but the Carcross post office has operated continuously in
the same building (with only minor modifications) since 1905.

Murray


ExploreNorth.com
Discover the circumpolar North, from Alaska to Greenland and Siberia
http://www.explorenorth.com

I will pose the question to the members of the Postal History Society
of Canada
in the next issue of the PHSC Journal which comes out at the end of
June.
Gus Knierim, editor, PHSC Journal

Dear Friends , we are searching for our big collection covers of icebreakers and
submarines in the ARCTIC ,
We are able to buy or to exchange it.
We are selling also  our new book "STARS,STRIPES & ICE"  ( on the postal history
of US and Canada drift stations, icebreakers and submarines in the Arctic).

ASS. GRANDE NORD --
Franco  GIARDINI  ( member ASPP)
e-mail franco.giardini@...





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How much is book delivered to US.....Ken Simon

--- Franco Giardini <franco.giardini@...> wrote:

> Dear Friends , we are searching for our big
> collection covers of icebreakers and submarines in
> the ARCTIC ,
> We are able to buy or to exchange it.
> We are selling also  our new book "STARS,STRIPES &
> ICE"  ( on the postal history of US and Canada drift
> stations, icebreakers and submarines in the Arctic).
>
> ASS. GRANDE NORD --
> Franco  GIARDINI  ( member ASPP)
> e-mail franco.giardini@...
>
>
>
>
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Hello, my name is Stuart.  I am a stamp dealer, with a store in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  One of my collecting specialties is
Umberto Nobile-related philatelic material, from his two zeppelin
flights to the North Pole.  Always looking for new material and
information.

Dear Friend, Now, at this moment we have only 4-5 items of the card  mailed
from us group ( and from a private photo of the our archive) when we have
organized  "TURIN POLAR  2005 " ( 3 days of polar and polar philatelic
meeting, conferences etc..).
This card was issued in 300 items, numbered and with the special cancel of
SAN  MARINO  postage ( they
has a stand during the meeting).
Price 1$  for each  + 1$  for the postage.

2) We have also a card  on the rescue expedition of Ing.ALBERTINI ( during
the 1929  organised a rescue with the private ship  "HEIMEN  -  SUCAI" and
some people from Italy and Norway). This card was realised to celebrate the
75th  anniversary  of the expedition around the  North-East of Spitsbergen
to search the crew missing.
We have ONLY  1 card with the special cancel , official, of the Italian
Postage.
1 card  with the cancel  + 1 card mint  =  3 $
3)  The Ass.GRANDE NORD  from 5-6 years issue
      every 3-4 month  a serie of polar cards ( 300 items, numbered, signed
and with private cancel of our group).
Now I dont remember  but  I think  ( I dont remember exactly) we have  about
10- 12 cards with subjects of the Nobile expedition, of the rescue etc.....
We prepare the  subjects of the cards from the photos of  a lot of books on
Nobile.
If you like I can send to you these cars at 1 $ each.
Let me know about .
Sunday I will start  for a trip of  10 days.

AVAILABLE  =   card n.1  --  20  items
                             card  n.2 ( with postal cancel ) only 1 item
                                "      ""     mint  card    --   10 items
                              card of the 3th  offers  I think  10-12  for
item  ( I must to search in our archive)

                                          WAYTING  YOUR  ANSWER       BEST
REGARDS

                                                                           Franco
GIARDINI




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Subject: [polarphilately] Hello


> Hello, my name is Stuart.  I am a stamp dealer, with a store in
> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  One of my collecting specialties is
> Umberto Nobile-related philatelic material, from his two zeppelin
> flights to the North Pole.  Always looking for new material and
> information.
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Dear STUART,
   Have you interest materials from icebreaker "KRASIN" (Russian rescue
expedition) ? Now this is icebreaker - museum stay in St.-Petersburg.
Also we can offer another materials relate this event.
   Kind regards.

   ALEXEY BUTORIN and Polar Philately Group, SPb.



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   Subject: [polarphilately] Hello


   Hello, my name is Stuart. I am a stamp dealer, with a store in
   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of my collecting specialties is
   Umberto Nobile-related philatelic material, from his two zeppelin
   flights to the North Pole. Always looking for new material and
   information.





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Hello,
as a collector specialized in Falkland Islands postal history, especially the
postal history of the years 1880-1901, censored covers of WWI and WWII, I'm
always interested in buying such items as postcards, postal stationery,
covers?etc.
I'm living in Germany but don't hesitate to offer me any items - thanks.
Klaus-D. Hahn
hahnstamps@...




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Ahoy!

I received my Ice Cap News today, therefore I have
just put the catalog for ASPP Auction #91 online. It
is at http://www.chrisjenner.org/ASPP/asppauc91.htm.

34 of the 235 lot descriptions contain hyperlinks to
illustrations of the lots. Please email me with any
problems or questions. Or bids!

Best Regards/
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Dear Friends,

Just a short message to let you know that my Falkland Islands & Dependencies
+ Antarctica + St Helena etc Postal Auction no.14 with closing date 9
November 2007, is now available on my website:
http://www.novastamps.com/stefan

ILLUSTRATIONS ON THE WEBSITE: Almost all single stamps are illustrated as
well as most multiples and covers with an estimate of £20 or more.
I will be happy to e-mail scans of any un-illustrated lots. Please let me
know as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Stefan

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Stefan Heijtz
Box 19541
S-104 32 Stockholm
Sweden

Tel: 0046-8108362 (work), 0046-86118727 (home)
Fax: 0046-8108361

Web site: http://www.novastamps.com/stefan/
E-mail: stefan.heijtz@...
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At long last, the results for ASPP Auction #91 are
available at
http://www.chrisjenner.org/ASPP/asppauc91r.htm

I hope to start getting invoices and shipments out
this coming weekend. Thanks for your patience and
thanks to all who participated!

Best Regards/
-- Chris


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