Wild Food from Denmark

Stamps from a booklet issued in September of 2018. The "Wild Food" on these stamps grows naturally out in the Danish countryside. Postmarked a the Sydjyllands (South Jutland) Postcenter in Fredericia Denmark.

Resistance Leaders of Algeria

Popular Algerian resistance leaders who resisted French colonialism in the 1800's: Sheikh Amoud (1804-1884) Sheikh Ben Naceur Ben Chohra (1859-1929) and Sharif Boubaghla (1851-1854)

Spanish Antarctic Base Juan Carlos I

From the Spanish Antarctic research station Juan Carlos I. It's a seasonal base located on Livingston Island at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

There are three postmarks on this cover. The first on the stamp was 01-01-18 at the base. Probably on or around the date the cover first arrived at the base. There is a more graphic Juan Carlos postmark on the left that is dated 24 May 2018. I'm guessing that's when the cover left the base. And finally the Barcelona postmark dated 08-10-18, when the cover was sent back to me from Spain.

More "America the Beautiful"

Another "O Beautiful" stamp series FDC. This time the stamps are Three Fingers Mountain in Washington, a field in Kansas and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Colorado Springs, USA

"O Beautiful" forever stamps issued on the 4th of July 2018. From left to right, Orinda, CA, Pigeon Point near Pescadero, CA and Maroon Bells peaks in White River National Forest, CO.

TAAF, Îles Glorieuses

From the Glorioso Islands in the Indian Ocean, 160km northwest of Madagascar. It's part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands Scattered Islands (Îles Éparses). The total area of the island group is 5 square kilometres and much of that belongs to the main island: Grande Glorieuse.  The island has a short airstrip and weather station.

Panevėžys, Lithuania

Registered mail from Panevėžys. I like the souvenir sheet that commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Lithuanian constitution. The other two "make up" value stamps appear to show the Columns of Gediminas: an early Lithuanian coat of arms I believe.

Wuppertal, Germany

Zagreb, Croatia

Polarstern

Polarstern is the German icebreaker research vessel that the Alfred Wegener Institute uses to support on-going polar research in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. This was returned to me at the end of it's most recent Arctic expedition. Normally they apply a cachet to the envelope with the date and cruise number but not this time. It is a new postmark though. Rectangular instead of rounded.

According to the schedule, the vessel was suppose to be in Tromso on the date this was cancelled. That would have been then end of PS114. It will be back in Bremerhaven in October before heading south in November.

Kruševac, Serbia

Registered mail from the central Serbian city of Kruševac.

Polish Polar Station Hornsund

This recently came back to me from Svalbard. The Polish Academy of Science has been operating an Arctic research station on Spitsbergen island since 1957. The base is situated on the north side of the Hornsund fjord, about 136 km south of Longyearbyen.

This isn't the envelope I sent up there, but those are the stamps I used. The original cover must have been damaged somehow (wouldn't be the first time) so someone salvaged the postage and sent me this instead. No postmark and only the "41st Polar Expedition" stamp marked on the front but there were some extras inside, including a couple of pages with various hand-stamps on them.