1957 Ross Dependency Pictorials

		Cat.	Mint	Hinged	Used
3d	HMS Erebus and Mount Erebus	100a	$2.25	$1.90	$1.70
4d	Explorers - Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton	100b	$2.25	$2.00	$1.90
8d	Antarctic Region Map - Carmine Red and Ultramarine Blue	100c	$5.65	$5.25	$5.25
	(i) Carmine Red and Brighter Blue	100c1	$8.00	$7.20	$7.20
1/6	Queen Elizabeth II	100d	$9.40	$7.50	$9.40
	Set Of 4	100e	$18.55	$15.80	$17.35
	First Day Cover - 11 January 1957	100f			$20.00

These stamps were issued to be used in the special Post Office (actually a tent) established in Ross Dependency by Sir Edmund Hillary as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The stamps were intended to help support New Zealand's claim of sovereignty over the Dependency.

The stamps continued in use and were decimalised in the 1967 Ross Dependency Decimal Pictorials issue with the same designs.

The 8 penny stamp is available in two varieties with differing shades of blue.

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