Stamps celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Gough Island Scientific Survey, 1955-56.

Stamp issue: 70th Anniversary of Gough Island Scientific Survey

Issue date: 13th November 2025

Exploring party on Michael's Ridge Recording a Brown Skua Surveying with a plane table Recording an elephant seal The uplands of Gough Island to Mount Rowett Map of Gough Island
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Stamps celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Gough Island Scientific Survey, 1955-56.

Designs: 55p - Party on Michael's Ridge; 55p - Recording a Brown Skua; 65p - Eastern Ridge, surveying;
£1.00 - Recording an Elephant Seal; £1.50 - Viewing from Gonçalo Alvarez Peak; £1.50 - The first good map;
FDC - GISS members outside the expedition base hut

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