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Our New Web Site

The Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau is glad to announce our new website, we're so impressed with it and have told our friends. Why don't you do the same. It allows the Philatelic Bureau staff here in the Falkland Islands to place the new stamps on the site as quickly as possible. We are planning many new features to the site over the next 12 months including a shopping cart. If you want the site to have anything else please feel free to contact us and tell us.

Atmospheres

Falkland Islands - Commemorative

NEW ISSUE - Release date - 25 January 2010

Atmospheres: Four Seasons

An unique feature of the Falkland Islands are the quickly changing weather patterns bringing a beauty to the Islands’ landscapes which are often rare in many other parts of the world.

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Cephalopods

South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands - Commemorative

COMING SOON - Release date - 7 April 2010

Cephalopods
The Waters of South Georgia

The cephalopods, which include the squid, octopus and cuttlefish are exclusively marine animals that are found from shallow water to the deepest parts of the oceans. The cephalopods belong to the Phylum Mollusca, which also includes the mussels, limpets, slugs and snails. The name cephalopod means head-foot, which reflects the evolution of the muscular foot of the ancestral mollusc into the head and arms of the modern cephalopod. In both squid and octopus a ring of eight muscular arms covered with suckers surrounds the mouth. Squid also have two extendible tentacles that are used to capture prey.

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50th Anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty

British Antarctic Territory - Commemorative

               

 

 

 

 

 

Release Date - 6 November 2009

British Antarctic Territory
Stamp Issue Commemorating the
50th Anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty
 
Signed in Washington on 1 December 1959 by twelve nations that were active during the International Geophysical Year in 1957-58, membership has reached 46 (of which 28 are consultative parties with voting status).
 

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