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Collector Subscription Magazine for Collectors of Greenland Stamps • Vol GREENLAND Collector Subscription magazine for collectors of Greenland stamps • Vol. 23 • No. 3 • September 2018 Areas of Southern Green- Greenland during the Music in Greenland NEW: Christmas land as UNESCO World Second World War part II – on postage Aromas – on 2 Heritage 4 – Part three 6 stamps 8 stamps! Areas of Southern Greenland as UNESCO World Heritage 01100636 Photo: Ivars Silis. Kujataa as UNESCO World Heritage Artist: Aka Høegh Denomination: DKK 17.00 Date of issue: 22nd October 2018 10 stamps per sheet Exterior dimensions: 58.00 x 32.00 mm Format: F – double, vertical. Typography: Lowe-Martin Group Printing method: Offset Paper: TR4 22102018A Last year UNESCO added the agricultural and the coming generations cultural landscape of Kujataa in Southern Green- from all areas of land to its World Heritage List. We celebrate this humanity. honour with a beautiful stamp by highly esteemed Kujataa is the artist Aka Høegh, who has lived in Southern area where Greenland for decades. Erik the Red By our Sales Assistant Birgi Hansen and Alibak Hard, landed at the Site Manager for KUJATAA World Heritage end of the tenth century and com- About the artist who designed the stamp To preserve sites of particular significance to hu- menced the almost manity, the United Nations organisation, UNESCO, For a number of years, Aka Høegh has had 500-year presence of has selected a number of areas and buildings of a central role in Greenland’s artistic scene. Norsemen in Greenland. Here, particular importance. These locations and monu- Long before her début as a postage stamp they built up a farming society that numbered up to ments are part of the larger concept of ’World Herit- artist in 1987, her art had also awoken inter- 3,000 inhabitants during its heyday. age’. They have, therefore, been recognised as hav- est outside the national boundaries of Green- ing a unique universal significance for current and At the beginning of the 20th century, Greenlandic land. Inuit changed from being hunters to farmers, as the Aka Høegh was born in Qullissat on Disko Is- only Inuit in the Arctic. Initially, they worked the land in 1947. She is mostly self-taught, with Norsemen’s fields and, nowadays, they work large periodic guest studies at Copenhagen’s Acad- agricultural areas. As part of their deliberations, the emy of Fine Arts. Aka’s art is influenced by World Heritage committee stressed the importance nature and the Greenlandic myths and leg- of the fact that the landscape includes exceptional- ends. Humanity also plays a central role in ly well-preserved ruins from the Norse settlements her numerous works. and the agricultural lifestyle that the Inuit popula- She finds inspiration in people, their joie de tion began in the 18th century. vivre and the experience they share. She is Ilulissat Icefjord is already featured on the World encouraged by the beauty of the social en- Heritage List. However, from this year, the cultural counter and simple presence, not least by hunting landscape at Sisimiut will also be added to the inner voice of the soul. “Everything we the list. can see has a soul” is a very relevant quote by Aka. Alibak Hard, Site Manager at KUJATAA World Heritage. Read more about Kujataa at www.kujataa.gl Private photo. 2 | Greenland Collector New franking labels on 22nd October 2018 The new images, which adorn our four 2018 franking labels, all come The 2018 Sepac folder with lots of from beautiful and marvelous Greenland. The photo of northern lights originates from Narsaq. The mountain landscape with Greenland’s na- tional flower, Niviarsiaq, in the foreground was taken at Nanortalik. The spectacular views view of the icefjord with the brown mountain in the background was taken in East Greenland, while the snowy winter landscape at dusk was by Pertti Frandsen taken in Nuuk. Mint and cancelled franking labels are available. Our nor- mal day cancellation (3913 Tasiilaq) will be applied. SEPAC is an abbreviation for Small European Postal Administration Cooperations. This is a network of If you order or subscribe to first day covers franked with our franking la- thirteen small European postal services, encompass- bels, POST Greenland’s trademark envelope will be used. You decide the ing: Aland, the Faeroe Islands, Gibraltar, Greenland, face value for the franking labels, from a minimum of DKK 14.00 per label. Guernsey, Iceland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Liechten- stein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco and the Vatican. Franking labels 2018 These thirteen small postal services all have small do- (set of four, self-adhesive) mestic markets for postage and logistics and, at the Item No. 01107058 same time, big export markets for postage stamps Date of issue: 22nd October 2018 for collectors. The Sepac countries consequently share Denominations: From DKK 14.00 with largely the same challenges and the Sepac network is, 25 øre intervals. therefore, an important forum for all member countries. Printer: Walsall Security Printers Ltd. 01303084. Souvenir folder Eight times in the past, from 2007 to 2017, the Sepac Paper: Thermal face paper 73g Colours: CMYK members have issued stamps in accordance with a Sepac 2018 – spectacular views common theme. This year, ’Spectacular views’ is the Print: Digital printing joint Sepac theme. Price: DKK 125.00 Format: 56.00 mm x 25.00 mm In May, POST Greenland issued this year’s Sepac stamp Date of issue: 13th September 2018 Franking labels from 2009 to 2017 for Greenland (below, right column). It reproduces a – in one folder! fine panoramic photo of the fjord and the magnificent The 2018 Sepac folder contains a mint mountains near Tasiilaq as the area looks in Decem- copy of the Sepac stamps from twelve All 5 sets of 4 franking labels issued ber where the Northern Lights flicker and everything of the thirteen member countries. Sub- by POST Greenland from 2009 through is peaceful and quiet. scribers to souvenir folders will receive to 2017 are inserted in this folder. The it with the year’s final standing order price of the folder corresponds to the On 13th September, the ’Sepac - Spectacular views shipments of 22nd October. total face value of all the franking la- of Europe’ souvenir folder was issued, with a single bels included – with domestic postage example of each of the twelve Sepac stamps for the for letters up to 20 grammes. year. This year the Vatican has not issued a Sepac Item No.: 01700802 stamp. This is the ninth joint Sepac souvenir folder and Price: DKK 193.00 it can be ordered from our Customer Services or from Date of issue: 22nd October 2018 our website, www.stamps.gl. Greenlandic postage stamps are returning to Copenhagen During the weekend of 3rd to 4th November, POST Greenland will once again be exhibiting in the Danish capital. This is when this year’s edition of the ’Frimærke-, Brev- og Postkortmesse’ fair will be held. It will be great to see all of you again. We will be bringing with us: Greenlandic stamps from the last couple of years, our brand new Year Pack, our new Christmas stamps, the 2018 Christmas ornaments, new and previous franking labels and some of our most interesting collectors’ items. You can find us at our large, familiar booth, where we look forward to serving you and the many other faithful collectors of Greenlandic philately, as well as welcoming new collectors. Once again, the venue will be Hotel Scandic Copenhagen, Vester Søgade 6, 1601 Copenhagen V, close to Vester- port Station and the Main Railway Station, with good parking facilities in the underground car parks. Open Saturday from 10am to 6pm and Sunday from 10am to 4pm. As always, entry is free of charge. The www.3fff.dk website will be constantly updated with booth exhibitors and news about the fair. Greenland Collector | 3 Greenland during the Second World War. Part three Narsarsuaq airbase, 1945. Photo: Jette Bang. Arktisk Institut © We began this series of stamps in 2016. The aim By Pertti Frandsen would accommodate the Danish interest in retain- was to uncover a part of history that has not yet ing sovereignty. Developments in the War meant, been told on postage stamps: Greenland during Bases and air traffic however, that American involvement as a warfaring the Second World War - as seen by The Green- Already by 1940, the United States’ hands-off policy nation in the War would require intensive air sup- landers. for Greenland was coming under mounting pressure port for the Allies, which meant that the plans for airbases had to be changed. This series, comprised of ten stamps, is printed from Great Britain and Canada. Both nations wanted in combined offset and laser etching. Stamps to see increased American involvement in the War. In July 1941, about 500 US soldiers and officers ar- five and six in the series will be issued on 22nd In August 1940, a US Coastguard vessel, with the rived to begin the task of establishing the base at October. The series will be completed in 2020, acceptance of the two bailiffs for Greenland, began Narsarsuaq in Southern Greenland. In September, 75 years after the end of the Second World War. looking for suitable locations where military bases another landing force arrived to build the base at could be established in Greenland. By this time, Søndre Strømfjord in Western Greenland. Bailiff All stamps in the series feature wartime pho- there was a great deal of pressure from Britain to Eske Bruun was full of praise about what the Amer- tographs. Parts of the stamps are, therefore, establish transit airfields for stop-off landings for icans achieved when building their military bases in photographic representations from that period, the American-produced planes that were needed Greenland.
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