Definitive issue. The Heroic age of antarctic explorations

Number by catalogue:  Michel: 462  

Perforation type: 14x14

Subject:

27 pence. Sir Douglas Mawson* and sailing vessel "Discovery".

On a deck of a vessel it is located a wind turbine, at now it is layed down.

 

Additional:

*Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian Antarctic explorer and geologist. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

 

Number by catalogue:  Michel: 465  

Perforation type: 14x14

Subject:

 

65 pence. Captain Robert Falcon Skott* and his sailing vessel "Discovery".

On a deck of a vessel it is possible to see easily the wind turbine.

 

 

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*Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Naval officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. During this second venture Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian party in an unsought "race for the Pole". On their return journey Scott and his four comrades all perished because of a combination of exhaustion, hunger and extreme cold.

 

Number by catalogue:  Michel: Block 15  

Perforation type: 14x14

Subject:

4 stamps for airmail letter. 

At the souvenir sheet used a previous described stamp with a sailing vessel "Discovery".

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You also can find more information about vessel and expedition "Discovery" - here

Size (of sheet, booklet) mm: 110x80