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Your browser does not seem to support iframes. Click here to read this PDF. Convert your PDF to digital flipbook ↗ Contents Spring 1998 Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Dates for your diary . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Cambridge 98 – Residential Weekend Meeting . . . . . . . . 3 The PPHS Autumn Meeting 1997 . . . . . . . . . . 3 Additions to the library to December 1997 . . . . . . . . . 3 Live and Postal Auction – 14 November 1998 . . . . . . . . 3 The Residency Posts of Kerguelen 1909-1925 . . . . . . . . 4 Associazione “Grand Nord” – Activities during the Arctic Summer 1998 . . . . . 4 Update on the 1954/55 British South Georgia Expedition . . . . . . . 4 Membership Update to 1st February 1998 . . . . . . . . . 5 First Balloon Mail from the North Pole . . . . . . . . . 5 British Antarctic Territory – Summer Season 1997/1998 – Early returns . . . . . 5 Special HMS Endurance postmark . . . . . . . . . . 6 South Georgia – Summer Season 1997/1998 – Early returns . . . . . . . 7 South Georgia – Once in a life time offer . . . . . . . . . 7 3rd Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition . . . . . . . . . . 7 Parcel Cards used with Parcels to Greenland posted at Danish Post Offices . . . . . 8 A letter from Hope Bay – December 1963 . . . . . . . . . 11 Royal Society International Geophysical Year Expedition 1955 – 1959 . . . . . . 13 An Update on printing amounts for labels used on the 1977 – 1979 Antarctic Tourist Flights . . . 21 Winchester Castle – March 1935 . . . . . . . . . . 21 New Tristan Postcard – SAS Drakenberg . . . . . . . . . 22 ✝ Alec Page FRPS – a tribute by Gerry Pearce . . . . . . . . 22 Tombstones of Tristan . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Cover offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 New Issues:- Namibia, Ross Dependency, TAAF, Uruguay. . . . . . . 27 Polar Postcards . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 South Through the Pole 1997-98 . . . . . . . . . . 31 7th Ecuadorian Expedition to the Antarctic 1997-1998 . . . . . . . 32 Back issues of Polar Post . . . . . . . . . . . 32