AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY

AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY.

Shackleton Expedition at South Magnetic Pole, 1908-1909.
Members of the British Anctartic Expedition.
Stamp issued on 05.07.1961.
Face value: 5 Australian penny.
Design and engraving: Frank Davies Manley (1894-1976) and George Lissenden.
Printing: Recess.
Print: 46,455,000 copies.
Size: 24 x 29 mm.

Catalogs
- Brusden-White No. 3.
- Michel No. 6.
- Scott No. L6.
- Seven Seas Stamps No. 3.
- StampWorld No. 6.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 6.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 6.

In 1907 Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton led an expedition to Antarctica aboard the Nimrod. On October 5, 1908, his three companions depicted on the stamp, Edgeworth David, Alistair Mackay, and Douglas Mawson, set out a march that took them to the southernmost point ever trodden by human beings, the South Magnetic Pole, northwest of the Ross Island, which they reached on January 16, 1909. The trio had covered a distance of 2,030 km (1,260 mi) feeding on seals and penguins.