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support vessel, launched 1990), and

Queen visiting Portsmouth in 1990

£1.22 – Map of British Antarctic Territory

showing, Queen Elizabeth Land,

named 2012, and Queen embarking

for the Diamond Jubilee River

Pageant, on Thames, June 3, 2012

017 Centenary of the Imperial Trans-

Antarctic Expedition, third issue, six values

Issue date: November 17, 2015;

Design: Bee Design, from photographs by Frank

Hurley, official expedition photographer;

Printer: BDT, offset; Perforations 14 x 14

66p – The James Caird (ship’s boat) is

launched by expeditionaries from

Elephant Island

66p – Digging a cave on Elephant Island,

for shelter

76p – ‘The Snuggery’ (upturned boat, for

shelter) on Elephant Island

76p – Crossing the South Georgia

mountains from south to north

£1.01 – The Yelcho (Chilean government

vessel lent to Shackleton) rescuing

the expeditionaries who had been

left on Elephant Island

£1.01 – The Yelcho with crew arrive in Chile

018 Historic Huts (Protected Monuments)

and Fauna of the British Antarctic

Territory, five vaues

Issue date: November 17, 2015;

Design: Robin Carter; Printer: BDT, offset;

Perforations: 14 x 14

66p – Damoy Hut in Dorian Bay (1973),

and Weddell seals

66p – Base W on Detaille Island (1956),

and Adélie penguins

76p – Base Y on Horseshoe Island (1955),

and skua

£1.01 – Base E on Stonington Island, (1946),

and blue-eyed shag

£1.22 – Base F, the main house of which

is known as Wordle House, on Winer

Island (1947), and orca

Notes: all base sites are designated

monuments, in the care of the United Kingdom

Antarctic Heritage Trust

019 Whales, six values

Issue date: November 17, 2015;

Design: Nick Shewring; Printer: BDT, offset;

Perforations: 13.2 x 13.4.

66p – Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musuclus

66p – Humpback whales,

Megaptera novaeangiae

66p – Antarctic Minke Whale,

Balaenoptera bonaerensis

66p – Southern Bottlenose Whales,

Hyperodon planifrons

66p – Orca, or Killer whale, Orcinus orca

66p – Sperm whales, Physaeter

macrocephalus

COCOS (Keeling) ISLANDS

(previously listed in July 2015 issue)

020 Visiting Birds (WWF issue), four values

Issue date: May 24, 2015; Design: Owen

Belll (illustrations) with typography by John

White; Printer: RA Printing, Australia, offset;

Perforations: 14.3 x 14.3

70c – Herald Petrel, Pterodroma heradlica

70c – Oriental Pratincole, or swallow

plover, Glareola maldivanum

70c Little Curlew, Numenius minutus,

wading off mangrove coast,

and in flight

70c – Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross,

Thalassarche carteri, in flight over

North Keeling

Notes: the birds depicted are seen at Pulu

Keeling National Park on North Keeling Island

021 Uninhabited Islands of Cocos,

four values

Issue date: August 25, 2015; Design: Lisa

Christensen; Printer: Bambra McKellar, Australia;

Perforations 14.6 x 13.86

70c – Pulu Klapa Satu

70c – Pulu Maraya

$1.40 – Pulu Blan Madar

$1.40 – Pulu Beras (Prison Island).

Notes: All but two islands in the Cocos (Keeling)

Island group are uninhabited. The stamps

were printed in sheets of fifty which contained

se-tenant pairs of one value

FALKLAND ISLANDS

(previously listed in November 2015 issue)

022 Birds and Their Young, four values

Issue date: February 11, 2015; Design:

Georgina Strange, from her photographs;

Printer: BDT, offset; Perforations 13.7 x 13.5

30p – Pied Oystercatchers,

Haematopus leucopodus

75p – Gentoo Penguins, Pygoscelis papua

£1 – Black-browed Albatross,

Thalassarche melanophris

£1.20 – Falkland Skua,

Catharacta skua antarctica

023 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.

30p – Queen Elizabeth II c.1953, and two

Coronation souvenir publications

80p – Queen wearing St Edward’s crown,

and first Land Rover in the Falkland

Islands, 1951, registration 168

90p – Golden State Coach (built 1762),

and Queen Elizabeth II at State

Opening of Parliament, 2002

(photograph by Tim Graham)

£1.25 – Hand placing ballot in ballot box

(which has map of Falklands, and

Queen watching a riding display

at Ebony Horse Club and Community

Riding Centre, 2012

024 20th anniversary of the ESRG, Elephant

Seal Research Group, six values

Issue date: November 30, 2015;

Design: Bee Design; Printer: Cartor, offset;

Perforations: 13 x 13

30p – Elephant Seal, Mirounga leonina,

in shallows

30p – Elephant Seal on beach, being

monitored by ESRG reseacher

75p – Seals of various ages on beach

75p – ESRG researcher and seal

£1 – Seal on sand, with penguins

£1 – Researcher using measuring

pole on seal

Notes: printed in three sheets of ten stamps

each containing five se-tenant pairs

025 Clouds, four values

Issue date: December 9, 2015; Design:

Ian J Strange from photographs by himself

and Georgina Strange; Printer: BDT, offset;

Perforations: 13.75 x 13.75

31p – Asperitas clouds (a newly

recognised category)

76p – Altocumulus clouds

£1.01 – Altocumulus Lenticularis clouds

£1.22 – Cumulonumbus and

Stratocumulus clouds

Notes: the official First Day Cover celebrates

Luke Howard, 1772-1864, who proposed a

classification of cloud types in 1802. Stamps

are also inscribed with Howard’s name

026 Birds of Prey, six values

Issue date: January 13, 2016; Design: Georgina

Strange, from her own photographs; Printer:

BDT, offset; Perforations: 13.75 x 13.75

31p – Barn Owl, Tyto alba tuidara

31p – Short-eared Owl, Asio f. sanfordi

76p – Red-backed Buzzard, Buteo polyosoma

76p – Crested Caracara,

Polyborus p. plancus

£1.01 – Peregrine Falcon,

Falco peregrinus cassini

£1.22 – Striated Caracara,

Phalcoboerus australis

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