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March Design 2009
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.
Falkland Islands Commemorative
New Issue - Release Date - 16 November 2011
Gentoo Penguins, Predators and Prey
Penguins, Predators and Prey is a series of stamp issues featuring, in turn, each of the familiar Falkland penguins, together with some of their respective predators and prey.
Five species representing four genera of penguins breed regularly in the Falkland Islands.
This issue features the Northern Gentoo Penguin and includes one predatory species, the Leopard Seal, and one prey species, the Gonatus Squid.
South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Commemorative
New Issue - Release Date - 25 November 2011
Frank Wild 1873-1939
John Robert Francis Wild C.B.E. known as Frank, was one of the most outstanding Polar explorers of the ‘Heroic Age’. He undertook five Antarctic expeditions under the leadership of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Sir Douglas Mawson and was the only man to experience six gruelling winters in Antarctica. Frank Wild is one of only two people to be awarded a four bar Polar medal and each pair of stamps in this issue represent the expeditions for which he was awarded a bar.
British Antarctic Territory - Commemorative
New Issue - Release Date - November 2011
Frozen Planet
Produced by the BBC’s Natural History Unit, Frozen Planet is the most ambitious series on the polar regions ever undertaken. Over four years, camera teams spent a record 2,300+ days in the field, braving temperatures down to -50 degrees C, 200 mile per hour katabatic winds, midnight sun and long, dark polar nights to capture the essence of the Arctic and the Antarctic - the remote and highly seasonal ends of the earth. Their aim was to take the viewer on the ultimate polar expedition – North and South – to some of the greatest, least explored wildernesses on our planet.
