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The Huron Expositor, 1972-03-16, Page 16• ' . V.:41'.6143". 4 , • 1.11 R l7rr • /17117 -g E A44-51 W. Westerho Dealer 1 HURON EXIK/STOR,SEAFORT14, ONT.: NQUICH 16,1972 Iritish Postage Stamps Are Reminders Of Polar Explorations BAl'IYSI-I POLAR EXPLORERS FOR ISSUE 0721 Datsun has a strong steel box , big enough for a couple of pianos or a bbat and camping gear. Brieisn't everything. Datsun is North America's best-selling imported truck. About half the price of domestic pickups. • Most of the great 'voyages of discovery in the polar regions of the world were made by Brit- ish seamen and navigators. Their work in opening up the Arctic and Antarctic territories is rec- ognised by the -latest set of four special stamps issued by .the British Post Office. Significantly, the only explorer to have been honoured by a previous British .stamp. was Captain James Cook. Though best remembered for his three voy- ages o f discovery to the Pac- ific, Cook also blazed the trail of Antarctic exploration. His ' signature and his bark eavour" were featured on the 1 s '9d stamp in' the General Anni- versaries set of 1968: The north-west passage from the Atlantic to India and the Far East, across the top of Canada, occupied the imagina- tion of explorers from the end of the 15th century.. In 1560 Captain Martin Frobisher, a Yorkshireman like Captain Cook, first toyed with the idea o f finding the north-west passage, but 16 years elapsed before he was able to fit out.an expedition. In 15'76 an d ships "Gabriel" and "Michael" left Blackwall and sailed via the Shet- land Islands for North America: The ,•Gabriel" sighted the coast of Labrador, but Frobisher failed to find the north-west passage. He made two voyages in sub- sequent years, discovering rob- isher Bay nod Hudson Strait. An attempt was made to found a colony, and a quantity of ore was shipped back to England, but Frobisher abandoned the pro- ject. For his services against the Spanish Armada he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. A portrait of Frobisher, now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, is featured on the 5p stamp of the explorers' series, against a map adapted from Part of the World by Desceliers (1550). • The quest for the north-west passage was taken up by Henry Hudson who, in 1607, sailed in search of a short sea route to China. He explored eastern Greenland andSnitsbergen,pene- trating as far north as 80 deg- rees, and the following year sailed through the Barents Sea, looking for a north-east passage round Russia, but without suc- cess. In 1609 he commanded an expedition financed by the Dutch East India Company to North America, exploring th e river which now bears his name. Hudson's fourth attempt on the polar route to China took place in 1610. He spent some months charting the great bay nained after him and spent the wink i there. In the spring Of 1611 however, some of the crew mutinied and cast Hudson, with eight others, adrift in an open boat. Nothing more was , ever heard of him. The 7 1/2 stamp bears a portrait of Hudson, from the painting by John Collyer in, the Tate Gallery. The background shows a map of North America from the map of Petrus Plancius, whom Hudson met ii, Amsterdam in 1608. This•map by Plancius was published by 1592. James Clark Ross, featured on the 3p stamp, accompanied his uncle, Sir John Ross, on his first Arctic voyage in search of north-west passage 'in 1818. In the 1820S' he made four Arctic voyages under Parry and in 1831 determined the position of the North Magnetie Pole. In 1839-43 .he commanded the Antarctic ex- pedition of the "Erebus" and "Terror" in' which he discovered the southern sea named after him. , The stamp depicts a' portrait of Ross from a print held by the Royal. Geographical Society of an engraving by Henry Cook, of the painting by J. R. Wildman now in the National Maritime Mus- eum, Greenwich. The background map is that of the South Pcilar Sea published inSeptember, 1841, by order of the House of Com- mons. The pioneering work ofRoss was followed by other British expeditions in the latter half of the 19th century. In 1899 Lieut- enant Robert Falcon Scott was appointed commander of theNat- lonal Antarctic Expedition whieh charted the southern continent between 1901 and 1904. In 1910 he organised an expedition to the South Pole• in the "Terra Nova". Scott and his four companions reached the pole in January 191.2, only to find tkat Amundsen had beaten them to it., TIA, tragic end to this expedition in no way diminishes the splendid achieve- ment of Scott's party, whose rec- ords and diaries have been pre- served for posterity. Scott is the subject Of the 9p stamp and his portrait is based on a photograph held by theRgyal Geographical Society. 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