The British Antarctic Territory Postal Administration commemorated the 75th anniversary of British Royal Navy Officer, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's arrival at the South Pole with the release of a 10-penny postage stamp in the year 1987...
On his second venture to Antarctic region, Scott led a party of five in the Terra-Nova expedition of 1910-1913... The crew members of the expedition reached the South Pole on this day (17-Jan) in the year 1912...
Scott was the first British explorer to reach the South Pole and explore Antarctica extensively by land in the early 1900s...
Stamp features the expedition team led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott...
This stamp can be collected under the themes:
(a) Science and Technology...
(b) Antarctic expeditions...
(c) Discoveries / Discoverers...
(d) Anniversaries...
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