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ARGENTINE ANTARCTICA and FALKLAND ISLANDS
1. Argentine Antarctic datestamps catalogue.
Illustrate catalogue (bilingual:
Spanish/English) with the datestamps used from the years 1904 to 2008 in the
Argentine Antarctic stations post offices.
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2. Covers and postcards with argentine
antarctic stations datestamps.
Large variety of covers and postcards cancelled in the argentine antarctic
stations post offices from 1942 up to the present-time.
Detailed lists with the description of the pieces, displayed by stations, in
chronological order, and the references to the type of datestamps applied,
according to the catalogue previously mentioned.
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3. Argentine flights to Antarctica.
Airmail covers carried to the Antarctica, or from the Antarctica,
by the Argentine Air Force, the Naval Air Forces, the Army and
Argentine Airlines planes, with different postmarks or cachets allusive
to each flight, carry out from the years 1952 to 2008.
Detailed lists in chronological order
with the description of the flights, the type of plane used and the references
to the postmark or cachet stamped in each case, grouped in the following types
of flights: flights to/from the Antarctica. (over flights, landing, mail
dropping by parachute, logistics, transpolar, commercials, sanitary evacuation
flights, etc.)
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- Interbase flights in the Antarctica. Interbases Service - Antarctic Air Mail.
( flights with DHC-6 Twin Otter planes between argentine and foreign antarctic
stations with a runway apt to land with ski-wheels).
- Mail dropped by parachute. Interbase Service -
Antarctic Air Mail. (flights with DHC-6 Twin Otter planes between argentine and
foreign antarctic stations without a runway apt to land with ski-wheels)
- Mailbag hooking from a flying plane. Interbase
Service - Antarctic Air Mail.( flights with DHC-6 Twin Otter planes between
argentine and foreign antarctic stations without a runway apt to land
with ski-wheels)
- Helicopters flights in the Antarctica. (
flights carry out between different antarctic stations and from ships in operation
in the area.
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- Illustrate
catalogue with the reproduction of the postmarks and cachets stamped in
each opportunity.
4. Argentine ships in the Antarctica.
- Large variety of covers and
postcards with postmarks and the official cachets to the corresponding
ships, cancelled in different argentine and foreign antarctic stations.
- Complete list of the ships
mentioned below, with the description of each piece, detailing the content of
them, with an annex at the end of each section, with the cachets and postmarks
stamped on them.
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- A.R.A. “General San
Martín” icebreaker
- A.R.A. “Punta Médanos” tanker
- “Martin Karlsen” polar vessel (Norway
Navigation Company)
- A.R.A. “Bahía Aguirre” vessel
- A.R.A. “Bahía Paraíso” polar vessel
- A.R.A. “Comandante General Irigoyen” patrol
- A.R.A. “Comandante General Zapiola” patrol
- A.R.A. “Goyena” patrol
- A.R.A. “Cándido de Lasala” ship
- “Santa Micaela” cargo vessel.
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- A.R.A. “Almirante Irizar” icebreaker
A.R.A.
"Puerto Deseado" oceanographic ship.
5. Argentine Antarctic tourist
expeditions.
List of available covers
and postcards corresponding to the tourist cruises to the Antarctica carry out with
the following Argentine ships:
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Transporte A.R.A. “Les Eclaireurs” (1958)
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M/N “Yapeyú” (1959)
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- Motonave “Libertad” (1968/69, 1972, 1973)
Motonave “Río Tunuyán” (1970, 1971)
Motonave T.S.S. “Regina Prima” ( 1974, 1975/76 )
6. Foreign ships in argentine
antarctic stations.
Postcards and covers with the postmarks and official
cachets of the following foreign ships, which visited argentine antarctic
stations:
- M.S. “Lindblad Explorer” ( 1973, 74, 75, 77
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- B/M. “Cabo San Vicente”
- T/n. “Enrico C”
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- M.S. “World Discoverer”
- Antarctic Research Ship “Hero”
- M.C. “Calypso”
- “San Giuseppe Due”
- “Academic Sergei Vavilov”
- M.S. “Bremen”
- M/V “Polarsirkel”
- ATF. 65 "Janequeo"
- R/V O.R.P. “Kopernik”
- Royal Research Ship “Bransfield”
- Voilier Polar UAP.
7.
Argentine Antarctic postmarks, special datestamps and cachets.
Large variety of covers
with special postmarks, datestamps and cachets stamped on the occasion of
expeditions, scientific research jobs, special tasks or commemorating important
antarctic events.
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8. Argentine flights to the
Falkland Islands.
Special selection of
covers corresponding to the flights carry out to the Falkland Islands with
Argentine planes, from 1972 to 1982. The majority of them have stamped
the departure and arrival datestamps and some cachet. They are presented in
chronological order according with the following list, with an annex at the
end, in which the cachets and postmarks stamped on them are reproduced. Also
covers transported by ships from the Falklands and British antarctic stations.
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- First flights to
Stanley with Grumman UH-16B “Albatross” planes.
- Scheduled flights with Grumman UH-16B
“Albatross” planes.
- Special flights with Grumman UH-16B
“Albatross” planes.
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Regular flights to Stanley with Fokker F-27 “Troopship”
planes.
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Special flights to Stanley with Fokker F-27 “Troopship” planes.
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Regular flights to Stanley with Fokker F-28 “Fellowship” planes.
- Argentine administration in the Falkland Islands.
- Flights to Falkland Islands with commercial airlines.
- Local flights in the islands with Britten-Norman "Islander"
plane.
- Mail circulated from Stanley and Fox Bay.
9. Argentine and foreign ships
in the Falklands and B.A.T.
Covers and postcards
cancelled at Port Stanley & Fox Bay, with the corresponding postmark and
cachet, from the ships who visited the Falkland Islands and the foreign
antarctic stations
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B.D.T.A.R.A.”Cabo San Gonzalo”
- TN “Libertad”
- M.S.- Aquiles - M.S. Lindblad Explorer - M.S.
World Discoverer - M.V. Society Explorer
- B/M “Cabo San Roque"
- B/M “Cabo San Vicente”
- E.L.M.A. “Lago Lacar”
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T/n “Enrico C - T/n Federico C - T/n Eugenio C - T/n.
Columbus C
H.M.S.
Endurance - R.R.S. John Biscoe - R.S.S. Brandsfield - R.R.S. James Clark Ross -
R.R.S. Charles Darwin”
10. Argentine Antarctic and
Malvinas stamps.
Argentine Antarctic and
Malvinas stamps issued by the Argentine Post Office, whose vignettes show some
design related with the Antarctic and the Falklands Islands: special events
commemorations, expeditions, scientific activities, antarctic stations,
Argentine ships that navigated in the Antarctic and in the Falklands, pioneers
and expeditionaries, antarctic fauna and maps of the Falklands and
Antarctic a and others stamps, that although they were not dedicated to this
thematic, they bear in their design maps in wich some part of this
territory is observed.
11. Philatelic
CD-Rom about Argentine Antarctic and Falkland Islands
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CD-Rom
"Philatelic Testimonies of Argentine Antarctic Flights - 1942/2000" It contains all the flights
from the Argentine Air Force, Naval Air Forces, Argentine
Army, Argentine Antarctic Institute and Aerolíneas Argentinas, carried
out to and in the Antarctica from the years 1942 to 2000. System minumum requirements: autorun, no
installation needed, Window 95, 98 and NT, RAM 16 MB, sound plate, video
16 bit, CD-Rom x 4 and mouse. US$
20.00
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CD-Rom " Argentine ships in Antarctica -
1903/2003" Temporary Post Offices
datestamps on board of Argentine ships who sailed in the Antarctica, cachets
and official marks from the ships, datestamps, franking machine and reception
postmarks stamped by the Argentine Post Office and stamps issued about the
theme. System minumum requirements: autorun, no
installation needed, Window 95, 98 and NT, RAM 16 MB, sound plate, video
16 bit, CD-Rom x 4 and mouse. US$
20.00 |
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CD-Rom
"The Argentine communications with the Falkland Islands .by
Salvador Alaimo Contents: 1.First Argentine incursions to
the Falkland Islands (1930-1971), 2.First official flights to the Falkland
Islands (1971-1972),
3.Opening of the Temporary Aerodrome at Stanley (Hookers Point), 4.Regular
flights with Grumman HU-16B “Albatross” planes (1972), 5.Regular
flights with Fokker F-27 planes (1972-1978), 6.Regular flights with Fokker
F-28 planes (1978-1982), 7.Special flights (1971-1982), 8.Argentine ships to
the Falklands-Naval Transport Service (1972-1982), 9.Argentine ships to the
Falklands -Tourism ships, 10.Joint Declaration of Buenos Aires, 11.Oficina
Radiopostal 9409 Islas Malvinas (Falkland Is. Post Office),
12.Soldier’s mail (military cachets), 13.Post-conflict postmarks,
14.Postmarks and cachets related with the Falklands, 15.Argentine stamps
related with the Falkland Islands, 16.Roler machine cancell. related with the
Falkland Islands, 17.Datestamps, official postmarks and cachets catalogue,
18.Falkland Islands Government Air Service-FIGAS (1972-82) System minumum
requirements: autorun, no installation needed, Window 95, 98 and
NT, RAM 16 MB, sound plate, video 16 bit, CD-Rom x 4 and
mouse. US$ 20.00
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CD-Rom
"Philatelic testimonies from the Argentine Air Force activities in the
Antarctica. by Commodore
(R) Salvador Alaimo
Postmarks from Post Offices which works in
the Argentine Air Force antarctic stations. Sytem minumum
requirements: autorun, no installation needed, Window 95, 98
and NT, RAM 16 MB, sound plate, video 16 bit, CD-Rom x 4 and mouse.
US$ 20.00
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CD-Rom
"100 years South Orkneys"(100 años Orcadas del Sur).
by Commodore (R) Salvador
Alaimo Pictures of South Orkneys (Orcadas del Sur)
of different years, maps, ships that carried out the relieves, main events,
endowments of every year, postmark, philatelic covers, stamps and postal
marks. Sytem minumum
requirements: autorun, no installation needed, Window 95, 98
and NT, RAM 16 MB, sound plate, video 16 bit, CD-Rom x 4 and mouse.
US$ 20.00
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Order and
Payment Information.
Orders of philatelic material can be arranged by
the addresses pointed out
as
follows, detailing clearly the piece number indicate in the list.
Postal: Salvador Alaimo,
Casilla de Correo N° 64
1430 BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA.
Personal: Salvador Alaimo,
Melián 2266 – 10°/ B
1430 BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
Tel./Fax.: (0541) 4541-1396
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Paymentscan be arranged by the following ways
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Argentina
Banknotes,
personal checks and money orders in Argentine pesos (to the U$S dollar exchange
rate)
Outer
Bank
Checks (Cheques) or Bank Drafts in U$S dollars drawn on any USA
bank.Western Union money transfer to my name and address in US$ dollars or € (Euros). For direct Bank
Transfer, contact me for account details.
US$ (dollars) or € (Euros) banknotes. It is suggested do not send cash by mail for
security
reasons, but for small amount of money,
it is
convenient to send it by a Registered letter.
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All the dispatch of material will be sent by
registered piece, suitably parceled up,
and the cost of postage and packing will be charged to the addressee.
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To get a copy of “Argentine
antarctic stations datestamps catalogue”
and the available covers lists, send US$ 10.00 to the following address
and will receive the mentioned material by mail.
Salvador Alaimo
Casilla de Correo N° 64
C1430 BUENOS AIRES
ARGENTINA
Tel./Fax. (541) 4541-1396
E- mail: phila.antarctica@sion.com
Web site: web.sion.com/s.alaimo
Updated on March 14th. 2008