Lot No. 1851
| Auction No. | 24 |
| Category |
Australian Antartic Territory Outerlying Territories Australia |
| Est. | $900 |
| Status | Archived |
1930/31 BANZ Antarctic Research Expedition cover franked with 4½d violet KGV pair tied by "1930-31" pictorial cachet with penguin. Hobart 25 MR 1931 b/s. The British Australian (and) New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) was a research expedition into Antarctica between 1929 & 1931 involving two voyages over consecutive Austral summers. It was a British Commonwealth initiative driven more by geopolitics than science. Good cond & highly thematic.
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