International Polar Year Stamps – Greenland 2007

Souvenir sheet

International Polar Year Stamps – Finland 2007

Souvenir sheet

International Polar Year Stamps – Denmark 2007

Souvenir sheet

Stamp Miniature Sheet International Polar Year Stamps – Canada 2007

Stamp

Souvenir Sheet

Miniature Sheet

First Day Cover

International Polar Year Stamps – Australia 2007

First Day Cover

Welcome the 2000th visitors

Aqui ficam as melhores saudações Filatélicas, para os visitantes de todo o mundo, que diariamente visitam o meu blog.

(English version)

Here are the best Philatelic greetings to visitors from all over the world who daily visit my blog.

Happy New Year 2011

I would like to wish You, Your Families and Friends a Happy New Year.

That 2011 can bring you all Good Health, Happiness, Success and Joy.

International Polar Year Stamps – Croatia 2009

When polar areas and their endangered condition due to climatic changes are mentioned, most people immediately think of a sad picture of a polar bear that is compelled to swim over large distances in search for an iceberg somewhere in the North Pole region. Although being excellent swimmers, polar bears are unable to survive in those regions without ice. Disappearance of the ice cap during summer months and the threat to ice bear habitats have become the symbol of endangered condition of the ice-covered regions caused by recent climatic changes. The scientific community is unanimous in their confirmation of the existence of global warming, as well as of the responsibility of humans for recent changes, which has been confirmed also by the latest report of the United Nations’ committee on which several thousands of scientists worked. Of course, there are also natural exchanges of ice ages caused by the change of the Earth’s orbit or by the tipping of the Earth’s orbit, the so-called Milanković’s cycles. However, they do happen on time-scales of thousands of years and cannot be taken as an explanation for the recent accelerated increase of temperature. Although these changes are global, they do not affect equally all the regions.
The most threatened ones are those in the polar circle. In summertime, almost all ice melts in the North, whereas the coastal regions in the distant South experience one of the highest temperature increases on the Earth i.e. 2.5 °C in one hundred years, on the top of Antarctic Peninsula. For instance, disintegration and melting of the ice shelf Larsen B 2002 on the Antarctic Shelf, an ice shelf with an area eight times the area of Croatia’s island of Krk, caused a surprise among the scientific community because no one could foresee such a rapid development in that direction. For all the above mentioned reasons, the period 2007/2008 was proclaimed the International Polar Year, on the occasion of which the scientists carried out a number of projects and measurements, with the specific purpose of better understanding and protecting the polar areas and glaciers. In the last 125 years of modern science, it has been the third time that the world joined its forces in the research of the polar areas, the last time in the distant year 1957/1958 on the occasion of the World Geophysical Year. The projects related to the Polar Year are due to be finished in March 2009 and therefore it is very convenient that the issue of a commemorative stamp on the protection of the polar areas coincides with the end of great effort in science to research and protect them better. An important issue has been left open: what we as individuals can do to protect the polar areas. Although we are very far away from them and our country is small, we can still make quite a difference. The atmosphere is getting warmer and warmer under the influence of glasshouse gases and it is not irrelevant where they arise from. The Western world generates enormous quantities of these gases and a fair part of them is superfluous and their emission can be reduced. As a nation we can plan the sustainable development which will not be an additional threat to the Earth and as individuals we can save and more efficiently use the energy; we can plan better and reduce our "imprint" in the emission of glasshouse gases, in order to help everyone on the planet to keep their habitats, even the polar bears from the beginning of this text. We do believe that the issue of this commemorative stamp will have a certain impact and contribute to rising of awareness on the necessity of protection of the polar regions and glaciers.

Dados técnicos / Données Techniques / Technical Data

Tema / sujets / subjects: Protection of the Polar Regions and Glaciers

Emissão / émission / issue: 2009/03/27

Design: Hrvoje Šercar, painter and graphic designer, Zagreb

Formato / Format / Size: 112 x 73 mm

Papel / Papier / Paper: white 102g, gummed

Picotagem / Dentelure / Perforation: Harrow, 14

impressão / impression / Printing: Multicoloured Offsetprint + Embossed print and Varnish

impressor / imprimeur / Printer: "Zrinski" - Čakovec

Selos / Timbres / Stamps: 30,000 stripes

Souvenir Sheet with two Stamps of 5kn

FDC

Cancellation

International Polar Year Stamps – French Southern and Antarctic Territories TAAF 2007

The stamp of 0.90€ represents a penguin and the stamps of 4.00€ represents one of the earliest stamps from the territories over the Antarctic map.

Central cinderella representing the IPY 20087-2009 logo.

Dados técnicos / Données Techniques / Technical Data

Tema / sujets / subjects:

50ème anniversaire de l'Année Polaire Internationale

50ème anniversaire de l'Année Géophysique Internationale

Emissão / émission / issue: 2007/03/01

Design: Claude Andréotto

Formato / Format / Size: 27 x 48-27 x 22-27 x 48 mm – Horizontal

Papel / Papier / Paper: g/m2

Picotagem / Dentelure / Perforation: 13 x 13

impressão / impression / Printing: offset

impressor / imprimeur / Printer:

Selos / Timbres / Stamps: 50,000 stripes

2010 ! ! !

May each day of new year bring hapiness,
good cheer and sweet surprises.

Happy NEW YEAR

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2010

Peace, Health and Joy are my best wishes to all my readers and their families and friends.

ALL- RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC CONFERENSE - "HISTORY OF THE POLAR LIBRARIES”.

MURMANSK and ZAOZERSK (MURMANSK REGION). ZAOZERSK POST OFFICE DATE 15.04.2009, MURMANSK TRANSIT POSTMARK DATE 16.04.2009.

On the cover official stamp of the State Murmansk Regional Scientific Library and ZAOZERSK Library official cancellation (round violet).

XXX SCAR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN ST.-PETERSBURG 08.07.-11.07.2008 SPECIAL CANCELED REGISTERED MAIL.

RUSSIAN POSTAL STATIONERY ENVELOPE - PINGUINS, POLAR BEAR, SAILING SHIP.

The XXX Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Meeting and the SCAR and International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Open Science Conference “Polar Research – Arctic

and Antarctic perspectives in the International Polar Year” were held in St. Petersburg, Russia between July 4th and July 11th 2008.

SCAR is the international committee responsible for initiation, promotion and co-ordination of high quality scientific research in Antarctica. SCAR is the leading international body for coordinating and facilitating scientific research in Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean. The 34 national Members of SCAR are the national academies of science of the various countries. The SCAR science is designed by the academic and government scientists appointed by the national academies to address fundamental questions regarding what is to be found or seen in the Antarctic, how what is found or seen is controlled by underlying processes, and how that knowledge and understanding can be fed into advanced numerical models to forecast what change we may expect to see in the future.

The scientific business of SCAR is conducted by its three discipline-based Standing Scientific Groups (Geosciences, Life Sciences and Physical Sciences), which represent the scientific disciplines active in Antarctic research.

54th RUSSIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION

Cover with IPY 2007-2008 official logo, with RV AKADEMIK FEDOROV exploration vessel onboard cancellation dated from April, 15 2009 and special cancellation at the arrive in the Leningradskaya station on April, 25 2009.

STATION PROGRESS

Progress (Russian: Прогресс) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) research station in Antarctica. It is located at the Larsemann Hills Oasis on the shore of Prydz Bay.

The station was established by the 33rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition on April 1, 1988 and was moved to another place on February 26, 1989 In 2000, work was temporarily halted but it reopened in 2003.

A landing field is located close to the station for air connection with other stations. From 1998-2001 work was done on the moving of transportation devices to Progress from Mirny Station.

In 2004 work began on a year-round facility at the station. On October 4, 2008, a fire broke out at the construction site resulting in the death of a construction worker and two serious injuries. The fire resulted in the complete loss of the new structure, as well as damage to the station's communications and scientific equipment.

RV AKADEMIK FEDOROV

The R/V Akademik Fyodorov (Russian: Академик Фёдоров) is a Russian scientific diesel-electric research vessel, the flagship of the Russian polar research fleet.[3] It was built in Rauma, Finland for the former Soviet Union and completed on September 8, 1987. It started operations on October 24, 1987 in the USSR. The ship was named after a Soviet polar explorer, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences Evgeny Fyodorov, who worked on the first Soviet manned drifting ice station North Pole-1.

STATION LENINGRADSKAYA

Leningradskaya station was a Soviet Antarctic research station, located at 69°30′S 159°23′E / 69.5°S 159.383°E / -69.5; 159.383 (the north shore of Victoria Land, at the Oates Coast). It was opened on February 25, 1971 by the members of the 15th Soviet Antarctic Expedition. It closed in 1991, but during its lifetime was host to studies of meteorology, Earth magnetism, oceanology and glaciology.

In February 2006, Valeriy Lukin, the head of the Russian Antarctic Expedition (RAE), said:

There are plans to open the mothballed stations Molodyozhnaya, Leningradskaya and Russkaya in the 2007-2008 season. This will bring great benefits because these stations are located in the Pacific sector of Antarctica, which is poorly covered by scientific studies.