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The red and green buildings of the Dakshin Gangotri research station half buried in snow, with a mast and the post office in the foreground, and the words “Dakshin Gangotri Post Office” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.
A Post Office in Antarctica
India Post issued this ₹1 stamp on 11 July 1989 for the second year of the post office. Dakshin Gangotri, India’s permanently manned station in Antarctica, became operational on 24 February 1984. Philatelic mail went south from the Third Indian Scientific Expedition onwards, and on 26 January 1988 a post office was set up at the station under the Goa Postal Division. G. Sudhakar Rao, a scientist with the Seventh Expedition, was the first Honorary Postmaster, and more than 10,000 letters were posted and cancelled there in its first year.
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