118 APRIL 2016 w ww.stampandcoin.co.uk75p – Halley VI Research Station eight
modules, seen from front in daylight
85p – The eight modules seen from front
during near darkness
95p – Distant view from front, in daylight
£1.20 – Side view, during near darkness
Notes: ‘first fully relocatable research station in
the world’, constructed 2008-2012009 Penguins and their Chicks, eight values
in four se-tenant composite pairs
Issue date: November 27, 2013; Design:
Andrew Robinson; Printer: BDT, offset;
Perforatgions: 13.8 x 13.6
40p – Gentoo penguin,
Pycoscelis papua (adult)
40p – Gentoo penguin chick,
Pygoscelis papua
50p – Adélie penguin, Pygoscelis a
deliae (adult)
50p – Adélie penguin chicks (pair),
Pygoscelis papua
75p – Chinstrap penguin,
Pygoscelis antarctica (adult)
75p – Chinstrap penguin chicks (pair),
Pygoscelis antarctica
£1.20 – Emperor penguins, Aptenodytes
forsteri (pair of adults)
£1.20 – Emperor penguin chicks (pair),
Aptenodytes forsteri010 Stamp on Stamp: 50th anniversary
of British Antarctic Stamp Issues, sixteen
values
Designs: Andrew Robinson, reproducing the
1963 definitives and the 1969 second £1
stamp; Printer: BDT, offset;
Perforations: 14 x 14
1p – ½d blue, depicting MV Kista Dan
2p – 1d brown, depicting men on skis
with sail-sled
5p – 1½d scarlet and crimson, depicting
mountain and a Bombadier
Muskeg tracked vehicle
10p – 2d purple, depicting skiers
30p – 2½d sea green, depicting de
Havilland Beaver float plane
40p – 3d blue, depicting RRS John Biscoe
50p – 4d dull brown, depicting
camp scene
65p – 6d olive brown and violet, depicting
HMS Protector and a glacier
75p – 9d green olive, depicting
dog team at work
85p – 1/- deep turquoise and black,
depicting de Havilland DH-3 Otter aircraft
95p – 2/- grey violet and orange, depicting
the Aurora Australis and husky dogs
£1 – 2/- blue, depicting a
Westland helicopter£1.20 – £1 light red, depicting a
Sno-cat transporter
£2 – 10/- deep green and violet,
depicting RRS Shackleton
£3.50 – £1 black and blue depicting
Antarctic map
£5 – £1 browish black and red of 1969,
depicting HMS Endurance
Notes: the original 1963 stamps were designed
by Michael Goaman, and the 1969 £1 by the
printers, Bradbury Wilkinson. All the original
stamps were recess printed011 Centenary of the Imperial Trans-
Antarctic Expedition, second issue,
six values
Issue date: November 16, 2014; Design: Bee
Design, from photographs by Frank Hurley
(official Expedition photographer); Printer: BDT,
offset; Perforations: 14.2 x 14; Sheets of ten
65p – Endurance in full sail
65p – Endurance trapped in the ice
75p – Frank Hurley and Ernest Shackleton
at ‘Patience Camp’ on the sea ice,
after abandoning attempts to
transport crew and supplies to
an island
75p – Expeditionaries and crew at ‘Ocean
Camp’ on the drifting sea ice
£1 – Dragging the James Caird (ship’s
boat, from the Endurance)
across ice
£1 – Landing with James Caird on
Elephant Island (after ocean voyage
following splitting up of the sea ice)012 Penguins. Non-denominated ‘Airmail
Letter’ stamps, five values
Issue date: November 16, 2014;
Design: Robin Carter; Printer: BDT, offset;
Perforations 13.8 x 13.8
Gummed stamps: sheets of ten- (75p) – Macaroni penguins
- (75p) – Adélie penguins
- (75p) – Chinstrap penguins
- (75p) – Gentoo penguins
- (75p) – Emperor penguins
013 Penguins. Non-denominated self-
adhesive ‘Airmail Postcard’ stamps,
five values
Issue date: November 16, 2014;
Design: Robin Carter; Printer: BDT, offset;
Perforations die-cut 13.4 x 13.4- (65p) – Macaroni penguins
- (65p) – Adélie penguins
- (65p) – Chinstrap penguins
- (65p) – Gentoo penguins
- (65p) – Emperor penguins
Notes: stamps are resized (smaller) and
redenominated versions of the gummed stamps
for Airmail Letter (above), and are affixed in
sequence to a translucent backing coil strip (no
surround)014 iSTAR - NERC Ice Sheet Stability
Programme, four values
Issue date: November 19, 2014;
Design: Bee Design; Printer: BDT, offset;
Perforations: 14.1 x 14.1
65p – De Havilland Twin Otter aircraft, used for
transport and remote survey sensing research
75p – Surface radar equipment mounted on
sled, used on gladiers to detect fine layers (of
snow) laid over the years
£1 – Vessel James Clark Ross with
oceanographic sampling equipment mounted
£1.20 – Autosub-3, launched and recovered
from a special crane on board James Clark Ross015 The Antarctic Food Web, four values and
a sheetlet with nine further values
Issue date: November 19, 2014;
Design: Nick Shewring; Printer: BDT, offset;
Perforations: 14.1 x 14,
Sheet stamps: sheets of ten:
65p – Phytoplankton
75p – Krill and Squid
£1 – Penguins, and birds in flight
£1.20 – Leopard Seal
Sheetlet (3 x 3 se-tenant, forming
a composite design)
65p – Penguins, and birds in flight
65p – Fish
65p – Small-toothed Whales
65p – Leopard Seal
65p – Krill and Squid
65p – Seals
65p – Baleen Whale
65p – Zooplankton
65p – Phytoplankton
(different to sheet stamp)
Notes: sheetlet of nine has coloured lines with
arrow-heads linking up the different fauna, to
illustrate the food web016 H.M. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s
Longest Reigning Monarch, four values
Issue date: September 9, 2015;
Design: Andrew Robinson, from photographs;
Printer: BDT, offset; Perforations: 14 x 14
66p – Front cover of Italian magazine
Epoca, May 15, 1953 edition, with
colour photograph of Queen, and
other souvenir publications
76p – Queen visiting St Julian’s School
in Carvavelos, Portugal, 1985, and
NASA false colour image of a hole in
the ozone layer over Antarctica, 1985
£1.01 – RRS James Clark Ross (Antarctic021020022New stamps
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