2. Specialised Stamp Catalogue of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies
including Postal History and Cancellations
1800 - 2006
with the British Antarctic Territory
and also paper money, coins and telephone cards
By Stefan Heijtz
5th Edition (2006) - ISBN (978-) 9163184613 - Published by Stefan Heijtz
NOW IN FULL COLOUR
This is the most comprehensive stamp catalogue of Falkland Islands stamps ever produced. In the catalogue you will find information about, and prices (based on market values and auction realisations) for:
1. All issued stamps of the Falkland Islands, the Dependencies, South Georgia and British Antarctic Territory, including prices for mint, used and on cover, with illustrations of most stamps.
2. All major varieties including watermark varieties, printing errors and flaws, together with many illustrations, essays, proofs, and printer's samples.
3. Postal Stationery from Queen Victoria to the latest issues including essays, proofs and varieties, with illustrations of every item.
4. All postmarks and cancellations used in the Falkland Islands, the Dependencies, South Georgia and British Antarctic Territory, with prices for single stamps and covers and full size illustrations.
5. The Miscellaneous chapter contains every other possible aspect of Falkland Islands philately in 39 sections.
6. Non-philatelic collectables: Paper Money, Coins, Telephone Cards and Tokens.
You will also find general information about the Falkland Islands and the Dependencies, full listings of Postal Rates, Printing Dates and Numbers Printed of every stamp, Numbers Destroyed, General Philatelic Information about Papers, Perforations and Watermarks of Falkland Islands stamps.
SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE FIFTH EDITION: The entire catalogue is completely updated and every price has been reviewed and many have been changed. The layout of the catalogue has been improved to make it easier to read and use. A lot of new information and data has been added.
Besides the general update of the catalogue, the following extensions have been made: Postmarks (earliest and latest recorded dates added), Cork Cancellations (rarity factor for covers/cards added), Argentine Occupation 1982 (extended). The following 15 new sections have been added: Antarctic Expeditions visiting the Falkland Islands & Dependencies, Battle of the Falkland Islands 1914, Commemorative Cachets, Consignees Mail, Cover Price Guide 1878-1971 based on Rates and Reign, Falkland Islands Stamps used in the Dependencies 1910-54, Insured Mail, International Reply Coupons, Parcel Post, Picture Postcards, Revenue Stamps, Sheet Numbers, Telegrams, Tokens, Whaling Mail.
This Catalogue is indispensable to every collector of Falkland Islands stamps.
It is available as a hardbound book containing 272 pages, or as a CD-ROM in PDF format.
3. Postmarks of the Australian Antarctic Territory - 1911-2004
By Colleen A Woolley & Janet S Eury
ISBN 0646401718; published by DC Desktoppers 2004, Melbourne
Number 2 in the series of monographs
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Commencing with a fold-out colour map of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean this 114 page book documents and illustrates all of the official and many of the unofficial postmarks associated with the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT). It commences with the "Loose Ship's Letter/Penguin" cachets/postmarkers of the Mawson Expeditions of 1911-1914 and 1930-31 (see below) and includes the latest National postmarker, which was used to cancel the stamps issued in 2004 to commemorate the 50 th Anniversary of the establishment of Mawson Station on the Antarctic continent. Here you will find illustrated the early cachets authorised by Australia Post, which were mainly associated with particular expeditions, new stamp issues and/or the opening of station post offices. While not purporting to be a complete postal history of the AAT this book provides insights into many aspects of this fascinating area of polar philately with fully referenced quotes and illustrations from many sources including the earlier work by Milner and Australia Post's Philatelic and Stamp Bulletins. |
 In Chapter 1, in addition to the postmarkers associated with the early Mawson expeditions, you will find all the commemorative and National postmarkers used to cancel new issues of AAT stamps on the Australian continent (even the ones with the incorrect postcodes, see example to the right). In the following seven chapters are all the First Day of Issue (FDI) and everyday postmarkers from the ANARE stations and bases, including both pictorial and circular date cancellers (CDC), as well as the ANARE pictorial postmarkers from Kingston, Tasmania. In the final chapter are the commemorative and pictorial postmarkers with an Antarctic theme from National and International Stamp Shows and Philatelic Exhibitions. This is followed by a three-page table, which summarises much of the information provided in the book.
The book is lavishly illustrated with many covers, postcards and maximum cards depicted in full colour. In all there are 34 pages with colour illustrations. A bibliography and other useful information including a list of books about Antarctica with an Australian flavour, the contact addresses of many Polar Philatelic Societies, and a full index are to be found in the "back of the book", where as many philatelists know, treasures often abound!
One final point: Catalogue prices are listed and are similar to those quoted in Australian PictorMarks®.
From the Reviews: "The illustrations of markings and covers throughout the book are excellent, both in black and white and colour."Ice Cap News, Journal of the American Society of Polar Philatelists. No.254. Jan-June 2004.
"This is not only a great reference. It is also a great read." The Cover Collector, Journal of the Australian Cover Society. No. 5. July 2004.
"Philatelic Gap is Resolved." Antarctic, Journal of the NZ Antarctic Society. Vol. 22, No. 2, 2004.
"It is an excellent addition to the bookshelf of any philatelist who has an interest in the Antarctic." The Upland Goose, Journal of the Falkland Islands Study Group. Vol. XVII, No. 5, September 2004.
"the main text is complemented very well with excellent illustrations including some unusual cachets and postmarks," Aurora, ANARE Club Journal. Vol. 24, No. 1, September 2004.
"it is a much needed update on the philatelic literature of the region." Penguin Views, Journal of the Society for Polar Philately. No. 52, May 2004.
4. Shackleton's Photographer
The Standard Edition
Photographs of Scenes and Diary of Incidents in Connection with Happenings to the Weddell Sea Party 1914-1917
12TH OCTOBER, 1914 — 16TH OCTOBER, 1917
ISBN 0-9703148-2-5
A book on CD-ROM readable with Adobe Acrobat Reader v5 and later.
Click here to download sample pages
(PDF 1.4 Mb file)
Through extensive travel and 15 years’ research, author and Antarctic historian Shane Murphy has created the most comprehensive account of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition ever published.
The story of Shackleton’s glorious failure is told through the diaries of Frank Hurley, expedition photographer. Of greater interest is that Murphy’s account incorporates the observations of a dozen other expedition members, portraying them in Hurley’s hand as well. This unique treatment has resulted in a thorough day-by-day diary, massive in scope, detail and interest, colorful in presentation and sometimes, perhaps, too graphic in its telling. 
It’s all here, every day of the expedition. From the moment Hurley joins ship in Buenos Aires to the day he becomes a WWI photographer in France, the reader accompanies him aboard the Endurance, to South Georgia Island and onward into the Weddell Sea, where the ship is locked immovably in the ice and eventually crushed in its grip. Forced to live on drifting ice in tents for five months, Shackleton’s men overcome all odds, eventually reaching desolate Elephant Island after a grueling 7-day boat trip. Almost immediately Shackleton and 5 others set off on the most remarkable journey in history—included here is Frank Worsley’s verbatim James Caird journal and the historic march across South Georgia Island. The narrative then returns to Elephant Island where Hurley and his comrades await swift rescue, which arrives many terrible months later and just in time. Shackleton and his men then tour South America in triumph, Hurley later sailing to London—only to return to South Georgia Island to round-out the expedition’s photographic record. Again sailing to London, Hurley is appointed Official Photographer to the Australian Imperial Force in France during WWI.
Complete with a Foreword and Afterword, eight appendices, comprehensive endnotes, samples of Hurley’s early photographic work, a generous supply of color photos and an extensive bibliography, SHACKLETON’S PHOTOGRAPHER is a concise biography of the life, times and personality of Frank Hurley—and the Endurance expedition. In future second hand books with a polar theme will also be available from this site.
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