1967 Ross Dependency - Decimal Pictorials

Single 2c 'HMS Erebus and Mount Erebus' gummed stamp.

The ship Erebus was built during the Napoleonic Wars and had been specially strengthened for ice work, it was the flagship of Sir James Clark Ross who in 1841 discovered Mount Erebus and McMurdo Sound. The region was later to be used as their base by the Scott Expeditions of 1901 and 1910, the Shackleton Expedition of 1908 and in still later years as the location of Scott Base, the permanent site of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Station. The Ross Dependency takes its name from the well-known explorer.

Single 3c 'Antarctic Explorers' gummed stamp.

Portraits of Robert Falcon Scott, leader of the ill-fated 1910-12 British Antarctic Expedition and Ernest Henry Shackleton, leader of the 1914-16 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, with a map of the Ross Dependency as background. Every possible photograph of the two leaders were scrutinised before the final selection was made.

Single 7c 'Map of New Zealand and Antarctica' gummed stamp.

A map of the Antarctic region, with the Ross Dependency shown prominently in relation to New Zealand. The stamp proved difficult to produce as in order to bring both New Zealand and the Dependency within the scope of one stamp, the former had to be foreshortened. The stamp includes the boundaries of the Ross Dependency, 160'E and 150'W longitude and 60'S latitude. Shown on the map are the Ross Dependency, New Zealand, Chatham Islands, Campbell Island, Ross Sea, Cape Adare, McMurdo Sound and the Antarctic Circle.

Single 15c 'Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II' gummed stamp.

A portrait of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. James Berry's drawing was similar to what he prepared for the New Zealand 'Official' series, but with the Queen facing left instead of right.