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    @2021 Australian Society For Polar Philately

    Macquarie Island Postmasters


    Further to my last blog, some readers may know that I have been writing an encyclopaedia of Antarctic philately. As a part of this I have been trying to document the people who have been postmasters at the Australian Antarctic bases. I will publish all these in coming blog posts, but here is what I know of the Postmasters during expeditions to Macquarie Island Station:

    • 1954 Bill Storer

    • 1955 Eric Macklin

    • 1956 not known

    • 1957 Bernie Shaw

    • 1958 Alex Brown

    • 1959 Eric Macklin

    • 1960 Doug Machin

    • 1961 Robert Francis

    • 1962 Clarrie Melvold

    • 1963 Eamon Gavaghan

    • 1964 Rodger Wiliams

    • 1965 Peter McGrath

    • 1968 Geoff Butterworth

    • 1967 Ken L. Bennett

    • 1968 Frank Johnson

    • 1969 Jack Dart

    • 1970 Frank Johnson

    • 1971 Col Christiansen

    • 1972 Ted Giles

    • 1973 Jack Dart

    • 1974 Frank Johnson

    • 1975 Paul Bremmer

    • 1978 Mike Knox-Little

    • 1977 Tom Maggs

    • 1978 not known

    • 1979 Mike Knox-Little

    • 1980 Peter Stickland

    • 1981 Mike Knox-Little

    • 1982 not known

    • 1983 Leon Douglas

    • 1984 not known

    • 1985 Julian Randall

    • 1986 Kenneth W. Dalgleish

    • 1987 Ulla Knox-Little

    • 1988 Ms Kim Hall

    • 1989 Peter Sutcliffe

    • 1990 Paul Gigg

    • 1991 Richard Cane

    • 1992 Allen Rooke

    • 1993 Rod Williams

    • 1994 Bob Orchard

    • 1995 David Wilson & John Trengove V2/V3

    • 1996 Stephen Cook

    • 1997 Warren Blythe

    • 1998 Kim Barnsley

    • 1999 Graham Smith

    • 2000 Phil Jefferson

    • 2001 Daniel Humphries

    • 2002 Matt Blacker

    • 2003 Sean Griffith

    • 2004 Peter Bower

    • 2005 Camilla Stark

    • 2006 - 2014 not known

    • 2015 Robbie Baker

    • 2016 Robbie Baker

    • 2017 not known

    • 2018 not known

    If anyone knows of mistakes or additions, then please drop me a line at p-6-1-B-at-protonmail-dot-com - or via this website.

    I've already published in previous blogs a list of Postmasters at:

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    • Heard Island

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