I’m kind of late on this one — the sheet shown below is part of a eight-country issue (February 12, 2007) coinciding with the fourth International Polar Year. Canada’s contribution is quite striking, and I couldn’t resist picking it up as I was passing by the post office this afternoon. Pictured are a male king eider (Somateria spectabtilus, native to Canada, circumpolar) and a recently discovered species of deep-sea jellyfish (Crossota millsaeare):
This is one of the more educational issues in recent memory; using some nifty information design, the souvenir sheet depicts the polar ice’s decrease in both thickness and area. Also neat is the maple-leaf perforation in the centre.
For more information about the International Polar Year, check out www.ipy-api.ca or www.ipy.org. Worth a look is the Canadian IPY Interactive Mapping Server (CANIPY IMS), which has the locations of different research stations and communities involved in IPY work.
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International Polar Year
I’m kind of late on this one — the sheet shown below is part of a eight-country issue (February 12, 2007) coinciding with the fourth International Polar Year. Canada’s contribution is quite striking, and I couldn’t resist picking it up as I was passing by the post office this afternoon. Pictured are a male king eider (Somateria spectabtilus, native to Canada, circumpolar) and a recently discovered species of deep-sea jellyfish (Crossota millsaeare):
This is one of the more educational issues in recent memory; using some nifty information design, the souvenir sheet depicts the polar ice’s decrease in both thickness and area. Also neat is the maple-leaf perforation in the centre.
For more information about the International Polar Year, check out www.ipy-api.ca or www.ipy.org. Worth a look is the Canadian IPY Interactive Mapping Server (CANIPY IMS), which has the locations of different research stations and communities involved in IPY work.
(With information from Details Vol. XVI No. 1)