Exploring the poles

Why not try this fascinating branch of philately? In this interesting field of postal history new discoveries are a regular occurrence, with many items being obtained by polar postal history collectors at much lower prices than their true value due to the knowledge of the collector. This world awaits any new collector who wishes to take up the field of polar postal history.

So, what is polar postal history? Being a branch of organised philately, it includes aspects common to other philatelic areas. There are stamps and vignettes, cancelled mail including envelopes, folded mail and postcards. It can be important to know about postal rates and postal routes, cancellations and cachets. But what really sets it apart is its ‘polar’ ingredient. Geographically it includes mail from the North and South polar areas of the globe. In the Antarctic regions, postal history from the British Antarctic Territory, the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT),