If you find yourself marooned in the Falkland Islands, South Georgia
or Antarctica in the coming months, you can adorn your letters and packages
back to civilisation with these commemorative stamps depicting the discovery
of the stratospheric ozone hole over Antarctica by the British Antarctic
Survey.
The stamps, to be issued in April, show representations of the hole
itself, experimentation techniques used to detect and measure it and the
British Antarctic Survey’s specially equipped aircraft for airborne ozone
studies in the region. The Crown Agents Stamp Bureau, based at Sutton in
Surrey, will be printing the stamps and sending them to the Falkland Islands
in April. From there they will be sent to British scientific bases in Antarctica.
