Page 4 - South Georgia

Postal History of South Georgia, 1909 ~ 13

INWARD MAIL, PREDATING POST OFFICE
The sole South Georgia Post Office opened early December 1909

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1905 Postcard from Norway to Signe Larsen, Carl A Larsen’s daughter, for onward despatch from President

of Pesca, Hr H(erman) Schlieper, in Buenos Aires, to the company’s whaling station at Grytviken, South
Georgia where the Larsens were living, since arriving November 1904 to build the first whaling station there

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1907 Postcard, Sandefjord 28.XI.07, Norway to Signe Larsen wishing her Happy Christmas on South Georgia
routed via the Pesca whale catcher Cachalote, (c/o) Norwegian Consulate, for collection in Buenos Aires, the
blue “A” indicated Cachalote moored in dock A on a round voyage from South Georgia (departed 10.12.07)

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