Dakshin Gangotri Post Office is India’s PO in Antarctica. Dakshin Gangotri, having become operational from 24 February 1984, is the permanently manned scientific station. The Post Office at the station forms part of the varied life support systems at the station, which include an ice-melting plant, generators, an office, laboratories, storage accomodation, recreation facilities, living and working spaces, a clinic and bank counter. The Department of Post started sending philatelic mail to Antarctica with the Third Indian Scientific Expedition in 1983-84. On the return of this expedition to India, a special cancellation was brought out by the Department of Post at Goa. Between 1984 and 1987, this process continued for the fourth, fifth and sixth expeditions also.
On 26 January, 1988, a Post Office was established at Dakshin Gangotri under the Goa Postal Division. Congratulatory messages were received from the President and Prime Minister of India on this occasion. Shri G. Sudhakar Rao, a scientist, who went to Antarctica as a member of the Seventh Indian Scientific Expedition in November, 1987, was appointed Honorary Postmaster. More than 10,000 articles of the letter mail were posted and cancelled at the Dakshin Gangotri Post Office when it completed its first year of continuous existence.
This stamp was issued to commemorate the second year of the Dakshin Gangotri Post Office. The stamp depicts the Dakshin angotri Post Office building in its ice-bound surroundings amidst other establishments of the Indian Scientific Station, Dakshin Gangotri, Antarctica. The first day cover depicts the Indian Scientific Station at Dakshin Gangotri, Antarctica.
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