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Showing posts with label ANTARCTICA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ANTARCTICA. Show all posts
October 16, 2016

2829 Bathed in Moonlight

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Obviously, this postcard has no relation to Antarctica. I applied that tag only because it was sent from there. I don't know who is...
October 14, 2016

2822 A inuit girl with a baby seal

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Not only I don't know what to say about this postcard more than I said in the title, but I have no idea what tag to assigned it. Th...
May 1, 2016

2512 FRANCE (TAAF) - Dumont d'Urville Station in Adélie Land

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The Dumont d'Urville Station is a French scientific station in Antarctica on Petrel Island , Geology Archipelago in Adélie Land ...
March 30, 2016

2420 ANTARCTICA - The map of the continent

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Located almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle , and surrounded by the Southern Ocean , Antarctica is covered almost entirely b...
March 26, 2016

2407 UNITED KINGDOM (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) - The Antarctic fur seal

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2407 Youg Bull Fur Seal on Bird Island Part of the  South Georgia islands, so located south to the Antarctic Convergence , in Antarc...
March 1, 2016

2342 ANTARCTICA - King Penguin

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The king penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus ) is the second largest species of penguin (after emperor penguin ), with 70 to 100cm tall ...
February 2, 2016

2259 ANTARCTICA - Polar Star on duty in Antarctic waters

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Polar Star (WAGB-10) is a United States Coast Guard Heavy Icebreaker commissioned in 1976 and built, along with her sister ship, Pol...
October 30, 2015

2000 FRANCE (TAAF) - Kerguelen shags gazing at the vessel Marion Dufresne from the coast of Grande Terre (Kerguelen Islands)

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The Kerguelen Islands , also known as the Desolation Islands, are a group of islands in the southern Indian Ocean which is part of the ...
July 25, 2015

1778 AUSTRALIA (Australian Antarctic Territory) - Mawson Station vicinity

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1778 Australian Antarctic Territory - Mawson Station vicinity Mawson Station is one of three permanent Australian bases in the Austr...
January 14, 2015

1396, 1408 UNITED KINGDOM (British Antarctic Territory) - Port Lockroy Historic Site

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Port Lockroy is a natural harbour on the north-western shore of Wiencke Island in Palmer Archipelago , a group of islands off the nor...
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January 19, 2014

0363 UNITED KINGDOM (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) - Wandering Albatross

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Considered Antarctic territories , because are located south to the Antarctic Convergence , South Georgia and the South Sandwich Isla...
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June 2, 2013

0664 AUSTRALIA (Australian Antarctic Territory) - David Range from Framnes Mountains

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In 1933 United Kingdom placed the Antarctic territory situated from 60°S latitude to the South Pole and between longitudes 160°E and 4...
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February 8, 2013

0366 & 0501 AUSTRALIA - Australasian Antarctic Expedition

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The summer of 1911-1912 was certainly the most dramatic and perhaps the most tragic of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration , due to...
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