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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 1999 Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Dates for your diary . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Back issues of Polar Post . . . . . . . . . . 2 1998 Cambridge “Polar Expedition” (PPHSGB Residential Weekend in Cambridge) . . . 3 New Contact address for US submarines visiting the North pole . . . . . . 6 Modern Postcards relating to Belgian Antarctic Activities . . . . . . 7 Brighton & Hove ’98 – medals for Polar Post and Cachets and Postmarks of South Georgia . . 7 Midex ’99 . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Postcards of Antarctic Expeditions – a Catalogue – end of special price offer . . . . 7 Additions to the library to November 1998 . . . . . . . . 8 Membership News . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Dr Jens Hart Hansen – an Appreciation . . . . . . . . . 8 Alaska – The last Frontier – some comments . . . . . . . . 9 A Frank Mitchell Favourite Cover – some further information . . . . . . 9 A.A.T.:- “AURORA AUSTRALIS” in trouble again – and yet again! . . . . . 10 Notification of change of address / Revised membership list . . . . . . 11 Trevor Brown – a letter from Mrs Doreen Farrier . . . . . . . 11 Drifting Ice Stations – a book review . . . . . . . . . 11 Ships (Icebreakers) which have reached the North Pole 1977-1998 – addendum . . . . 11 Antarctic Winter Stations 1998 . . . . . . . . . . 12 North Korean Antarctic Activities – request for information . . . . . . 12 T.A.A.F. – 40th Anniversary of the end of the I.G.Y. FDCs . . . . . . 12 Copyright Notice . . . . . . . . . . 12 Tristan Da Cunha – The sale of the “Jack Cole” Collection – Auction realisations . . . . 13 Southern Thule:- Argentinian Naval Station “Corbeta Uruguay” datestamps . . . . 15 BAT – New Registration labels for the individual bases . . . . . . . 18 M/V Polarstern – 15 years of activity in the Antarctic . . . . . . . 19 Germany “loses” its Filchner Summer Station . . . . . . . . 20 An early Antarctic postcard? . . . . . . . . . . 21 Cover offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 New Issues:- Argentina, BAT, Canada, Chile, Falkland Islands, Greenland, Mongolia, Grenada, Gilbert Islands, Niger, North Korea, Ross Dependency, Spain, T.A.A.F. . . . . 26 New Tristan / Polar Postcard (TdC 27 / Pole 1:- World Discoverer) . . . . . 32