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Postal History of Operation Tabarin, 1944 ~ 1945

The sixth chapter features the Dependencies’ Postal History arising from Operation Tabarin opening post
offices in Graham Land, South Orkneys and South Shetlands during the latter stages of WW II, 1944 ~ 1945

and includes the pre-war British Graham Land Expeditionary mail
BRITISH GRAHAM LAND EXPEDITION - 1934-37
OUTGOING EXPEDITION MAIL

This Antarctic expedition, oft known as BGLE, was the first undertaken in the ‘modern era’, successor to the
‘heroic age’, operated with new approaches to travel, diet and utilisation of contemporary technologies
The expedition determined that Graham Land was a peninsula
The expedition could be said to be the model upon which Operation Tabarin was based

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1936 Cover sent by ‘JRR’, Expedition Leader John Riddoch Rymill at the 1d Empire rate,
datestamp Stanley, PS.1, 1 AP 36 to his Aunt at home in Australia, arrival at Penola recorded on 2 June 1936

Cover written by Rymill on Argentine Islands, Graham Land on 8 February 1936
Posted at Stanley by Sir Herbert Wilkins

Commercial, very rare, less than 10 items of outgoing mail, a number of which are philatelic, are known

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