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Image Not Available for Ice-ship SIR HUBERT WILKINS
Ice-ship SIR HUBERT WILKINS
Image Not Available for Ice-ship SIR HUBERT WILKINS

Ice-ship SIR HUBERT WILKINS

Date2001
Object number00034218
NameFirst day cover
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsOverall: 114 x 161 mm
Display Dimensions: 114 x 161 mm
ClassificationsCommemorative artefacts
Credit LineANMM Collection
Terms
    DescriptionThis envelope and stamp features the Ocean Frontiers-owned research explorer ice ship SIR HUBERT WILKINS which operated in the Antarctic from 2000 - 2003. A purple ink stamp on the envelope reads "Conservation of Mawson's Huts, Cape Denison Antarctica. 1 January 2001".SignificanceThis collection is significant in representing a broad range of Antarctic philately interests (the study of stamps and postal history). It covers most of the countries who have bases in the white continent and are signatories to the Antarctic Treaty, including all of the Australian bases.
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    2 November 1960
    Image Not Available for Newspaper clipping from The Age titled 'The two Antarctic expeditions'16 November 1929 regarding Mawson and Wilkins with image of HECTORIA
    Newspaper clipping from The Age titled 'The two Antarctic expeditions'16 November 1929 regarding Mawson and Wilkins with image of HECTORIA
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    Sir Thomas Stewart Gordon
    23 April 1940
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    Envelope for correspondence addressed to Sir Thomas Gordon in Sydney, 29th April 1940
    Sir Thomas Stewart Gordon
    1940
    Image Not Available for Personal papers belonging to Lieutenant Hubert Edward Carse
    Personal papers belonging to Lieutenant Hubert Edward Carse
    c 1967