Mail from New Zealand's Scott Base always comes back to me fairly quickly. The US Air Force operates flights between Christchurch and McMurdo Station to support US activities in the Antarctic. And Scott Base is only a few kms away by ice road from McMurdo.
The Ross Dependency stamps from left to right are a 2023 stamp commemorating the planned refurbishment of Scott Base, a 2012 definitive showing Mount Erebus: the southern most active volcano, and finally a 2022 stamp commemorating scientific research involving sea ice. I believe this stamp shows sheets of coloured plastic on the ice used to study they way micro-organisms in the ice survive under different lighting conditions.
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