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Commemoratives
Wrecks & Hulks
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands - Commemorative
NEW ISSUE - Release Date - 25 June 2010
Wrecks & Hulks
There are over sixty wrecks and hulks around South Georgia, most of them scuttled and sunk, some still visible. Except for a submarine and two modern fishing vessels nearly all took part in the sealing and whaling industries.
The South Georgia wrecks and hulks fell victim to uncharted waters, unpredictable weather and - at the end - to the decline of the whales. Catching one’s eye in the vicinity of the former whaling stations some appear now to be taking a long winter’s rest. To best portray this solemn sleep, all images were taken in winter at full moon.
Ten Decades of Stamps
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands - Commemorative
NEW ISSUE - Release Date - 12 April 2010
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands – London 2010 Festival of Stamps
The Post Office of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is marking its participation in the London 2010 Festival of Stamps with a souvenir sheet of 10 different stamps on a “stamp on stamp” theme. The Post Office on South Georgia opened in December 1909 and each of the stamps in the sheet represents one decade in its history.
Cephalopods
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands - Commemorative
NEW ISSUE - 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.
Centenary of the South Georgia Post Office
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands - Commemorative
Release Date - 23 December 2009
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands
The Centenary of the South Georgia Post Office
The South Georgia Post Office celebrates its Centenary in 2009 with this commemorative issue of four stamps. The stamps contrast the island's early postal history with its modern postal service.
Corals
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands - Commemorative
Release Date - 9 November 2009
Corals of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
When people think of corals they often picture the famed shallow water reefs that live in tropical waters. In fact there is a vast wealth of coral thriving in cooler and deeper waters all around the globe. Rather than relying on the sun and energy from symbiotic algae in their tentacles, as shallow water corals do, deep water corals waft their tentacles through the cool ocean waters sifting marine snow (organic particles made of dead organisms that fall from shallow waters) and zooplankton for sustenance. There are actually more coral species found in deep than shallow water though much less is known about their ecology, reproduction, or even where exactly they are found.
Preserve the Polar Regions
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands - Commemorative
Issue Date: 2 April 2009
Preserve the Polar Regions
The scale of the Antarctic continent and its kilometres thick ice sheets is such that it has exerted enormous influence on the world’s climate, particularly through the global ocean circulation system. However, despite being surrounded by the vast, could Southern Ocean it is not entirely immune to outside influences and parts of the continent (Antarctic Peninsula) are now warming faster than virtually anywhere else on Earth due to the effects of increasing global greenhouse gas emissions and the influence of distant tropical weather systems such as El Nino.
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