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Port Lockroy is a bay forming a natural harbour on the north-western shore of Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula.The Antarctic base with the same name, situated on Goudier Island in this bay, includes the most southerly operational post office in the world.
Public post office Port Lockroy , Goudier Island , Antarctica [ 54 ] 64°49′S 63°30′W / 64.817°S 63.500°W / -64.817; -63.500 ( Port Lockroy, Antarctica
Southernmost point Latitude Antarctica: South Pole: 90°00′S: Antarctic Circle: 66°33′39"S South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (United Kingdom) Southern Thule: 59°42′S Chile: Águila Islet, Diego Ramírez Islands Cape Froward (mainland) 56°32′S 53°53′S Argentina: Southernmost point of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego Monte ...
The first issue came in 1963, an engraved set with 15 values ranging from ½d to one pound, featuring a portrait of Queen Elizabeth overlooking various scenes of human activity in Antarctica. [4] Several additional issues in the 1960s were followed by a decimalisation issue in 1971 produced by overprinting the 1963 stamps.
James A. Farley Post Office. New York The massive 1912 Beaux Arts treasure in Manhattan was the largest post office in the country for years, a staggering two-block icon of nearly 400,000 square feet.
A five-month-long slumber party. A college dorm. An introvert’s hell. Those are just some of the words residents of Antarctica use to describe life in the world’s coldest, most mysterious ...
While colder temperatures have been recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica (minus 128.6 degrees on July 21, 1983) and Klink Station, Greenland (minus 93.3 degrees on Dec. 22, 1991), Oymyakon's ...
Before the Australian Antarctic Territory Act was signed in 1954, all expeditions to Antarctica were customised with different rubber postage stamps. For the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1914, [ 2 ] commandeered and under the leadership of Sir Douglas Mawson [ 2 ] a stamp was commissioned in order to show that letters were being sent ...