Sunday Stamps | P(enguins)

When I thought I hadn't any stamp for the theme P of Sunday Stamps-II, I found some penguins...

French stamp dedicated  to the commemoration of the 150th birthday of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), medical doctor an polar explorer. Stamp issued on 24 April 2017.

Argentina issued this stamp on 2011, on a set dedicated to the XXXIV Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. The penguin here is a Pygnoscelis papua or gentoo penguin. (Here a better view of the set.)

Stamp issued for the 100th anniversary of Burger's Zoo in Anhem (the Netherlands), showing a pair of Spheniscus demersus or African penguin. It belongs to an interesting set issued in 2013.

I had already published this one, a Eudyptes chrysolophus or macaroni penguin, arrived from South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. This stamp was issued on 25 October 2015, and it belongs to a set of four penguins. 

The postmark makes it almost invisible, but there is a penguin on this Spanish stamp dedicated to the Spanish military shelter established on Deception Island in 1989. The shelter is named after the navigator and explorer Gabriel de Castilla. (More information and a bigger picture of the stamp)

Stamp issued by USPS on 1 June 2015, that pays tribute to the majestic Aptenodytes forsteri or emperor penguin. (More information)

A Postcard from Antarctica?!?

This stamp was issued on 25 October 2015. It belongs to a set of four penguins. This one is the Macaroni (Don't you love the hairstyle?).

A penguin is not a mammal of the sea, so this would not do for today's Sunday Stamps-II. But it arrived on the back of this postcard, showing a Young Bull Fur Seal on Bird Island... Would you accept that?

Photograph taken by Mr Ben Osborne

I had absolutely to share this postcard because it arrived from a place that is difficult to add to the places I've been to category: South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. A postcard from Antarctica! How cool is it? It arrived on 1 April, after a 34-days trip.

As you can see on the postmark, it was sent from King Edward Point Research Station, but the sender remains a mystery. If it was you, I just want let you know that you made my day! (And of course, let me know if you wish to receive a postcard back.) Mystery solved! I don't know exactly who sent it, but I know who arranged the sending.