Space and Astronomy Stamps - French Southern and Antarctic Lands (Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises)

Background information about French Southern and Antarctic Lands

Postal Administration: TAAF
Currency: French Southern and Antarctic Lands uses the Euro. As of February 2012, one Euro equals 1.34570 US dollars.

Issue Date / Set Description

Description

11 October 1957 - International Geophysical Year

Aurora 5fr
Aurora 10fr
Aurora 15fr

11 February 1963 - Trans-Atlantic Communications

Telstar / Globe

16 December 1963 - International Quiet Sun Year

Penguins
Station / Insignia
Towers / Penguins / Insignia

17 May 1965 - International Telecommunication Union Centennial

International Telecommunication Union Insignia / Syncom

2 March 1966 - Astérix

Rocket Launch
Satellite
pair

27 March 1966 - Diapason (D-1)

Satellite

12 December 1966 - Ionospheric Research

Research Station

4 March 1967 - First Rocket Launch

Launch

22 April 1968 - Dragon Sounding Rockets

Kergulen Island / Rocket
Adelie Land / Rocket

circa 1970s - Satellites

50c
ARGOS
Satellite / Antenna
Satellites / Globe
Satellites

13 December 1973 - Sailing Ships

Le Mascarin
L’ Astrolabe
Le Rolland
La Victorie

26 January 1975 - Franco-Soviet Magnetospheric Research

Rockets in Flight
Aurora Borealis over USSR

circa 1981 - Various

Glacier
Bird
Adele Dumont d’Urville
ARCAD-3 Project (carried on Aureole 3)
Charcot Station
Antares

3 January 1983 - International Polar Year / International Geophysical Year Anniversaries

Sputnik 1
Cape Horn
Greenland
strip of 3

1 January 1984 - Aurora Australis

Aurora

1 January 1984 - Bicentennary of Manned Flight

Balloons 3.50fr
Balloons 7.80fr
strip of 2 (rocket on label)

26 May 1986 - Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (SPOT)

Satellite

2 March 1987 - Inmarsat

Satellites / Ship

14 July 1989 - French Revolution Bicentennial

Ship / Man / Angel / Penguins / Armillary Sphere
souvenir sheet of 4
Ship / Man / Angel / Penguins / Armillary Sphere (different colors)

1 January 1990 - L’Astrolabe

Icebreaker Astrolabe
Jules Dumont d’Urville’s L’Astrolabe, circa 1840
pair (astrolabe on connecting label)

1 January 1990 - L’Astrolabe

Ship

1 January 1991 - Argos System

Satellite / Albatrosses

1 January 1992 - Poseidon

Satellite

1 January 1993 - L’ Astrolabe

Ship / Map

1 January 1994 - Satellite Measurement

Satellite / Ground Station 26.70fr
Satellite / Ground Station 27.30fr

1 January 1996 - Micrometeorites

Micrometeorite / Cape Prudhomme

2 January 1998 - Argos System

Satellite / Penguin

circa October 1998 - Quaddecennial of the International Geophysical Year

Science Stations / Insignia

circa January 2000 - Third Millennium

souvenir sheet of 4 (spacecraft in margin)
Penguin
Seals
Crustacean
Hovercraft

1 January 2001 - Mir Ham Radio Links

Earth / Mir / Penguin / Personal Computer

1 January 2001 - Memorial to 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition

Panorama / Close-Up

circa January 2003 - Otice Hydroacoustic Station

Map / Station / Satellite

1 January 2004 - Robert Genty (scientist)

Robert Genty

6 August 2005 - History

booklet of 11
Discovery of Amsterdam Island
Discovery of Crozet Island
Discovery of the Kergulen Islands
Discovery of Adélie Land
1874 Transit of Venus
Wreck of the Strathmore
Port Jeanne d’Arc
Port-Couvreux
Port-Martin
Antarctic Treaty
Fourth Base

1 January 2007 - Astronomy at Concordia

Observation Platform

1 March 2007 - International Polar Year

pair w/ connecting label
Antarctica / Earlier Airmal Stamp w/ Aurorae
Penguin

21 June 2007 - Solar Course at Dumont d’Urville Station - 21 June

Time-Lapse Panorama

1 February 2008 - Gérard Mégie (scientist)

Gérard Mégie

2 January 2011 - Concordia Research Station

Concordia Research Station / Crux / Coalsack Nebula