The listing, 1970 Russia Antarctica --"Pole of Relative Inaccessibility"--Postal Cover has ended.
Up for auction or GIN is an interesting and valuable (currently offered for about US$25 on Ebay) USSR 1969 old postal cover by Soviet artist E. Aniskin, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica--"Pole of Relative Inaccessibility"--per the illustration.
The colorful front illustration shows polar transportation methods and a map of the Antarctic continent with Russian research stations highlighted as points of light. The special cancel of 1-28-70, Leningrad, honors the First Russian Antarctic Expedition that took place in 1819–1821 under the direction of Fabian Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev. Antarctica is noted as the last region on Earth in recorded history to be discovered, unseen until 1820 when this Expedition successfully sighted the Fimbul ice shelf. In 1774 Captain James Cook almost made it to Antarctica on his second voyage, but had to turn back just short of the continent to resupply.
Per the reverse (second photo), this postal cover was printed at the Goznak paper factory in Perm, USSR, as a publication of the Ministry of Communications.
As seen on photos, there is a small 3 mm tear at top margin of envelope that is not very noticable, but please bid accordingly.
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