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Heard Island Antarctica Australian External Territory Vintage Trade Card
Heard Island Antarctica Australian External Territory Vintage Trade Card

Heard Island Antarctica Australian External Territory Vintage Trade Card

$ 2.89

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Condition: Used
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    Description

    Heard Island Antarctica Australian External Territory Vintage Trade Card
    NOTE:
    THESE ARE NOT POSTCARDS
    THEY ARE TRADE/ADVERTISING CARDS.
    THEY ARE MUCH SMALLER THAN A STANDARD POSTCARD
    AND
    THERE IS ADVERTISING TEXT ON THE BACK!
    THE CARD DIMENSIONS ARE APPROXIMATELY
    3 '' x  2 ''  or  7.5 cm. x  5 cm.
    ORIGINAL VINTAGE TRADE - ADVERTISING CARD
    HEARD ISLAND ANTARCTICA
    An American sailor, John Heard, on the ship Oriental, sighted Heard Island on 25 November 1853,
    en route from Boston to Melbourne. He reported the discovery one month later and had the island
    named after him. William McDonald aboard the Samarang discovered the nearby McDonald
    Islands six weeks later, on 4 January 1854.
    No landing took place on the islands until March 1855, when sealers from the Corinthian, led by
    Erasmus Darwin Rogers, went ashore at a place called Oil Barrel Point. In the sailing period from
    1855 to 1880 a number of American sealers spent a year or more on the island, living in appalling
    conditions in dark smelly huts, also at Oil Barrel Point. At its peak the community consisted of 200
    people. By 1880, sealers had wiped out most of the seal population and then left the island. In all
    the islands furnished more than 100,000 barrels of elephant-seal oil during this period.
    A number of wrecks have occurred in the vicinity of the islands. There is also a discarded building
    left from John Heard's sealing station which is situated near Atlas Cove.
    The islands were transferred from the United Kingdom on 26 December 1947. The receipt was
    confirmed in letters exchanged on 19 December 1950. The archipelago became a World Heritage
    Site in 1997.
    THE CARD DIMENSIONS ARE APPROXIMATELY
    3 '' x  2 ''  or  7.5 cm. x  5 cm.
    NOTE:
    THE IMAGE ABOVE IS LARGER THAN THE CARD
    TO SHOW THE DETAIL.
    SEE IMAGES ABOVE!
    THE CARD IS NOT A MODERN REPRODUCTION
    IT IS NOT PERFECT
    THE FRONTS AND BACKS MAY HAVE:
    PAPER LOSS - SMUDGING - ROUNDED CORNERS
    SEE IMAGES ABOVE!
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    NOTE:
    ON LARGER INTERNATIONAL ORDERS WE MAY REQUIRE REGISTERD
    MAIL AND WILL SPLIT THE COST WITH THE BUYER.
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