Prince Henri 75th Birthday

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Subscription Magazine for collectors of Greenlandic stamps • vol. 14 • No. 2 • May 2009

GREENLAND

Collector

Greenlandic Comics - Part one

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Matthew Henson on the North Pole

Self-Governance in Greenland

Contemporary Greenlandic Art III

Around the world with Greenlandic stamps

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The success of holding Northern Europe’s largest stamp exhibition in a town outside Copenhagen continues. This year the fair is held in Roskilde. It is the 21st time the fair will be held. Organisers, Post Denmark, Post Greenland and Postverk Føroya have again planned a full three days filled with exciting philatelist activities. Attendance at the fair is wide from both home and abroad. Philatelic Forum’s long standing tradition is continued with a large num-ber of stand holders who present a huge range of philatelic material of all kinds and in all price ranges for the collector. The fair’s traditions are kept alive. Guests can turn to the legendary cold buffet, see the exhibition of rare stamp collections, see presentati-

ons of the programmes for the year’s stamp releases – The youngest collectors can learn about stamps and get inspired to start their own stamp collection in the “Childrens-land” … and much, much more !

A little something from the POST Greenland standPOST Greenland also has an exciting programme of events at their stand this year, which includes visits from several of the Greenlandic talented artists who provide the designs for the beautiful stamps that POST Greenland issues. It will of course be possible to get some of the stamps they have published - signed. There will also be the opportunity to view a few of the original designs of some previously issued Greenlandic stamps. In the next issue of Greenland

Collector, you can read more about the artists visit-ing the stand and what else you can expect to see during the three days of the exhibition. You will, as always, be able to buy the latest stamp issues and, of course, the new 2009 year pack from us at the fair.

Exhibition at the stamp fair Denmark’s Motif Collectors’ Association will be hol-ding an exhibition “Motiv 2009” as part of the ex-hibition. It is a specialised club exhibition. Another part of the exhibition also includes EUROTHEMA 2009 where a large number of European thematic collectors are invited to participate in a multi-nations competition in ‘motiv-filatelia’. You can read more about this competition at www.motivsamler.dk

Transportation to the fair There are good transport connections to the Roskilde exhibition premises, whether you come by car or you choose to take the train. It takes only 25 minutes by train from Copenhagen Central Station and Roskilde station and 3 hours from Aarhus. From Roskilde Sta-tion there is an approximate 10 minutes walk. There are buses to the station - 2 per hour. There are 750 parking spaces at the exhibition premises if you pre-fer to take your car.

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By Finn Ib Larsen

Frimærke-Forum’09 in Roskilde 6th to 8th November

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The 27th January 2009 was a merry day for the children of Greenland. On this day the Danish Crown Prince and Crown Princess received a cheque for 250,000 DKK from POST Greenland. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess immediately donated the money to improve the conditions of the children of Greenland.The quarter million arrived from the sales of the Greenlandic additional value stamp of 2006. The stamp was sold with an additional value of 50 øre on each stamp. On the stamp is seen the Royal Couple in their beautiful Greenlandic national dress. The photo of the Royal Couple was taken by the pho-tographer Leiff Josefsen and the layout and typo-

graphy was created by Dorit Olsen. For more than 50 years POST Greenland has issued additional value stamps. The additional value is donated to a worthy cause in Greenland.The additional value stamp with the Royal Couple has been exceptionally popular in Greenland and the stamp has been well received by stamp collectors around the world. The stamp was chosen as the most popular stamp from Greenland in 2006 in the annual stamp poll among philatelists and customers.“The stamp with Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess has been the most popu-lar additional value stamp in recent times”, says Ge-neral Manager Per Svendsen, POST Greenland most proudly. The cheque for a quarter of a million DKK was handed over by General Manager Per Svendsen and Philatelic Manager Allan Pertti Frandsen at an private audience at the Royal Palace Amalienborg 27th January 2009.“We know Greenland has a profound place in the hearts of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess” Ge-neral Manager Per Svendsen states and continues: “it is a great honour and privilege for us to contri-bute to the Danish Royal Couple’s many charitable projects related to the children in Greenland”.

POST Greenland has for several years published an annual stamp with an additional value. The additional value of each single stamp is 0.50 DKK which is donated to a charitable purpose. It is easy to support a good cause through POST Greenland as, when you buy the year’s added value stamp, you automatically donate 50 ore for a good purpose. The additional value from 2009 is dedicated to the Greenland organisation Neriuffiit Kattuffiat, which is the counterpart for Greenland to the Danish Cancer Society.

Being a cancer patient living in Greenland is often associated with significant practical and economic upheavals since the geographic distance forces the patient away from familiar surroundings. This leaves many to fight the disease far away

from family and friends who would normally act as a crucial support for the cancer patient throughout the illness.

It is in these concrete, practical situations that Neriuffiit Kat-tuffiat provides a tremendous support to cancer patients and their families in Greenland, in particular in making it possible to apply for a lump sum to cover, for example, tra-vel expenses for the patient’s relatives. POST Greenland´s Additional Value stamp makes a differ-ence – this year for the cancer patient in Greenland. Sup-port Neriuffiit Kattuffiat’s vital work by acquiring this year’s added value stamp.

Additional Value makes a difference

The Danish Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary are given a whole sheet and a mini sheet of the additional value stamp from 2006. On the stamp they are dressed in their Greenlandic national dress. General Manager Per Svendsen and Philatelic Manager Allan Pertti Frandsen from POST Greenland were responsible for the presentation during a private audience at the Royal Castle Amalienborg on Tuesday 27th January, 2009.Photo: Steen Brogaard.

By: Tina Vestergaard

The Danish Crown Prince and Princess receive 250,000 DKK from POST Greenland

By: Allan Pertti Frandsen

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By Allan Pertti Frandsen

On 11th June the Danish Prince Consort will reach 75 years of age.

75th Birthday His Royal Highness Prince Henri

The big royal event will be celebrated with, among other things, POST Greenland’s beautiful commemora-tive stamp, which will be issued on the actual day. The stamp issue emphasises the warm and strong bonds that exist between Greenland and our royal family.It will be the second Greenlandic stamp to appear with the Danish Price Consort. The first one was issued in 1984 on the occasion of the Price Consort’s 50th birth-day. However, previously in 1967, on the occasion of the Prince Consort’s wedding to the then Crown Princess Margrethe (as of 1972 Queen Margrethe II) a beautiful Greenlandic commemorative stamp was is-sued on which the heir to the Throne and the young count Henri was featured in profile and silhouette.Prince Henri was born in France but spent his first five years in Vietnam, by that time French Indochina, where his father was running the family business in several enterprises. In the late 1930’s the family returned to France. The young count was educated partly in France, partly in Vietnam, before he took his Master of Arts de-gree in French literature and Oriental languages.Since his student years Prince Henri has been collecting old books, building up a vast collection of art books as well as historical and philosophical works, including a number of first editions. In addition, the Prince Consort has accumulated a collection of fine Greenlandic and African art.Under the pseudonym of H.M. Vejerbjerg, Prince Henri and Queen Margrethe translated the French philoso-pher Simone de Beauvoir’s work “Tous les hommes sont mortels” (All Men Are Mortal) into Danish in 1981. In addition, Prince Henri has written “Chemin faisant”, a collection of poems, in 1982, “Destin ob-lige” (Destiny Obliges) in 1996, as well as “Cantabile”, a collection of poems, in 2000.Furthermore, Prince Henri is a member or a chairman of several committees and foundations, for example

Photos by John Rasmussen, Narsaq Foto.

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President of the Danish branch of the World Wild-life Foundation (WWF). Prince Henri has also been bestowed with the Greenland Home Rule’s Order of Merit, the Nernorsaat, in gold, as well as a number of Danish and foreign decorations and honours. More-over, Prince Henri is patron of a number of associati-ons and societies.Prince Henri has very warm feelings for Greenland. To give an example, the Prince Consort spoke in a most positive manner in 2006 concerning a future arts museum in Greenland. Because, as Prince Henri said at the time, art has been produced in Greenland in all the years the country has been known to the outside world. “Greenlanders are artistic. So, I think, it is about time Greenland gets its own art museum”, the Prince Consort added. The royal support in favour of the idea for a museum of Greenlandic art is per-haps not so surprising, since Prince Henri has been collecting Greenlandic art for many years:“I have been collecting Greenlandic art ever since I moved to Denmark. I visited Greenland for the first

time in the 1970’s, and it was a great experience for me to see Greenlandic art at first hand”, the Prince Consort continued and emphasised that France and Frenchmen have always shown a great interest in Greenland, especially the great explorers’ Greenland expeditions. Frenchman Paul-Emile Victor, who was commemorated with a stamp by POST Greenland (G-392) in 2007, is just one example.Prince Henri has visited Greenland 10 times. Since the first visit in 1970 the Prince Consort has revisited Greenland in 1995, 1979,1982, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1997, 2000 and 2004. The Price Consort’s next visit to Greenland will be this summer when he will ac-company the Queen on an official journey to Nuuk, capital of Greenland, on occasion of the introduction of Self-Governance in Greenland on 21st June.It will be a very warm meeting for both Greenland and the Prince Consort, since we know His Royal Highness is extremely fond of Greenland.

01100421Prince Henri 75th Birthday

Denomination: 8.00Issue date: 11th June 2009

40 stamps per sheetSize: G – vertical

Outside measurements: 40mm x 28.50 mm

Photographer: Sandra GreigPrinting method: Offset

Paper: Sopal, white paperLayout: Dorit Olsen

• Born11thJune1934inTalence,Gironde,France,sonofCountAndrédeLabordedeMonpezatandCountessRenéedeMonpezat,bornDoursenot.

• Married10thJune1967inCopenhagen,totheheirtotheThrone,asof1972H.M.theQueenMargretheII.

• FathertoFrederik,PrinceofDenmark/HisRoyalHighnesstheCrownPrince,born1968.JoachimPrinceofDenmark/HisRoyalHighnessthe PrinceJoachim,born1969.

His Royal Highness the Prince Consort

01201421First Day Cover (FDC/1)Prince Henri 75 BirthdayPrice: DKK: 14.00

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Greenlandic comicsPart one”Greenlandic comics” is the title of POST Green-land’s newest stamp series. The first edition in the series will be issued on 21st June 2009 and was created by cartoonist Nuka K. Godt-fredsen. It marks the release of his wonderful comic album ”First Steps”. The album is publis-hed in the autumn in Greenlandic, Danish and English and this stamp is thus an ’appetizer’ of what we can expect from this dynamic artist. POST Greenland’s own comic-enthusiast met

Nuka K. Godtfredsen to a talk about stamps and comics. The stamps are issued both in nor-mal whole sheets and souvenir sheets.

By Jesper Gundersen

”First steps” Harpoon flies through the air, the dogs’ bells and two men are ready to send two more harpoons against the walruses, encountering man for the first and last time in their life.The scene taking place on the stamp in the clear watercolour colours and the realistic lines are from Nuka K. Well Fred’s comic ”The first step” which forms the first edition in a series of four designed to describe Greenland’s history. Nuka explains that the choice fell on this subject for several reasons: ”First, it is a central place in my comic, and in addition, it was important that something happened and that the postage stamp itself told a story. For the second it shows the walrus catch, which was one of the Independence I cultures main food sources”.

GreenlandIllustratedHistoryofthepeople The story is about the first people in Greenland, Independence 1 and their migration from Canada approx imately 4,500 years ago. We follow a large family’s nomadic life, hunting and love which drive them to new hunting fields in the north-west coast of Greenland.

”My drawing office is at the National Museum in Denmark, so I work alongside the leading experts in the field. I have four archaeologists and a profes-sor that I can ask around the clock, about anything from clothing, tents and gear, evaluating people’s weight and height to calculate the distances these nomads were able to cover. They all have their dif-ferent theories and ideas. It is my task to share the substance. ” ”The problem”, explains Nuka, ”has been that Greenland’s early history has, only been available in hard to understand archaeological reports. I want to turn it into something everyone can enjoy. Therefore the cooperation with Sermitsiaq that brought the first part of the comic last summer and brought out the second part April this year. In addition, it is Iilin-niusiorfik which publishes the entire comic, possibly with a booklet with facts about the period”.

RealismandHumour”It has been important for me to understand these people, their humour their purpose in life. They were practical people, always on the move in an extreme climate and landscape. I have not wanted to portray them as classic comic-heroes, because they were not. I focus on realism and here I have a huge help from the experts. In addition, I have loads of photos of nature in the area, archaeolo-gical finds and I use models for individuals. I de-vour all books concerning Greenlandic legend and myths and historical sources. ”

01100423 Greenlandic comics I Value: 15.50 Day of issue: 21st June 2009 20 stamps per sheet Format: E - HorizontalOuter target: 50mm x 43.50 mm Artist: Nuka K. Godtfredsen Printing Method: Offset Paper: Sopal white paper Typography: Dorit Olsen

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Nuka K. Godtfredsen was born in Narsaq in 1970 and is a trained graphic artist.He has illustrated books and teaching materials since the 1990s and has published his own comics about the figure Andala. Nuka has worked before with POST Greenland and designed POST Greenlands EUROPA stamps in connection with the centenary of the scout movement and also POSTGreenland’s SEPAC stamp of 2007.

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Souvenir SheetPrice: 15.50

Day of issue: 21st June 2009

In addition, Nuka recently travelled to the city of Montreal (Canada) for research. ”When I do re-search, I write a storyboard and then I work on the sketches. Once this is done every plate is properly planned and drawn, eventually each page is colou-red with watercolour and texts are included”.

Itallhappensin2009The comic ”First Steps” is published this autumn and is the first edition in a planned series of four, which together describe Greenland’s history. , ”Alt-though there is half a year before the release, I can see the end of the first stage,” says a satisfied Nuka K. Godtfredsen, who looks forward to a continued eventful year 2009. ”This interview summarises everything connected with the publication of the series of comic albums” he says; ”The stamp, which is issued on 21st June and planned exhib-itions of sketches and designs from the comic around Greenland and Canada, where the first people came from. Right now I cannot escape the work, and it is not so good for my family, but the project is so exciting and I am proud of both the issue of the stamp, and the album”.

Who are Nuka’s collaborators? To create a comic about Greenland’s history was Nuka’s own idea, and has been achieved in close cooperation with SILA, Sermitsiaq and Ilinniusiorfik.

SILA - National Museum of Greenland Research Centre. The author’s premises, archaeologists and expertise available to Nuka. Sermitsiaq - Greenland’s largest daily newspaper. Continuously publishes parts of the comic. Ilinniusiorfik - Greenland Teaching publishers.

Who is Nuka K. Godtfredsen?

100 years ago, on 6 April 1909, Matthew Henson and Robert Peary reached the North Pole along with the four Polar Inuit men Oodaaq, Iggiannguaq, Sig-luk and Ukkujaaq. They reached the latitude 90º N, the northernmost geographical place on earth. The journey to Cape Columbia, Canada - approxi-mately 664 kms - took 37 days.

From 1891 and 19 years onwards Peary and Henson sailed eight times between the USA and Thule to make their dream of reaching the North Pole come true. They knew that in order to reach the Pole they must team up with Arctic natives through snow, ice, and cold to survive and fulfil the dream. This ac-count highlights a link between Greenland and the USA through events of dreams, endurance, gene-rations, recognition, promises, cultural gatherings, and, not the least, sympathetic interaction between the two different cultures. This story is known by very few people in Greenland and Denmark, since many Greenlanders and Danes associate Thule with

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Knud Rasmussen. However, in the USA Thule is as-sociated with Matthew Henson and Robert Peary.

On 6 April 2009 the centennial was celebrated. American Dr. Allen Counter, PhD and Director of the Harvard Foundation, travelled to Qaanaaq for four days to celebrate the centennial with Green-landic descendants of the North Pole Explorers of 1909. Initially, the plan was to travel though Ca-nada or to fly over the North Pole from Pituffik on the day of the anniversary. However, due to a lack of funds Dr. Counter had to change plans, a fact which made him sad since he had promised his now deceased friends, Anaukaq Henson and Kaali Peary, to bring descendants with him to the North Pole to celebrate the centennial.

Before he went to Thule he arranged for a US Mari-ne submarine to drop a time capsule on his behalf. On the 6 April the submarine emerged at the North Pole to drop the time capsule during a speech. The capsule contains Dr. Counter’s book on Matthew Henson, Matthew Henson’s own book, Polar Bear claws once owned by Anaukaq Henson, former President Reagan’s letter of tribute from 1987 as well as President Barack Obama’s letter of tribute of 2009. In addition, it contains an Inuit artwork as well as various objects in memory of Anaukaq Henson, Kaali Peary and their fathers.The centennial in Qaanaaq included a banquet for American and Inuit descendants and Dr. Counter, his daughter and two assistants. The letter from Barack Obama was presented, speeches of thanks were given, followed by the showing of the film from 1987 and pictures from previous gatherings in the USA. We were three family members who tra-velled up from Nuuk, accompanied by a Greenlan-dic news reporter. We joined the festivities there. However, the celebration did not stop at that point. A documentary will be made. Moreover, the stamp will be issued on 21 June. Even though the funds

did not go as far as the North Pole, the contributi-ons and sponsors were most helpful. They include: Greenland’s Culture Ministry, Canada Goose, Air Nunavut’s flexibility, the loan of a room at Qaana-aq’s town hall with Avernersuup Atuarfia, lodgings, the national Greenland’s TV’s media interest, Verne Robinson who runs www.matthewhenson.com, and POST Greenland’s upcoming stamp issue. All this builds up a positive feeling that Greenland and the outside world join forces in popularizing this remarkable account.

Matthew Henson was an Afro-American, born on 8 August 1966 in Charles County, Washington DC. When Matthew was 11 years old he became an orphan and moved to his stepmother’s place. At the age of 13 he ran away from home, however, and reached Baltimore where he became a cabin boy onboard a merchant ship, which sailed the seven seas. During six years he was raised by the captain who taught him navigation, geography, mathematics, history and the Bible. Matthew loved to explore the world and even learned to speak Mandarin.At the age of 19 he met for the first time with the then 29-year-old Robert Peary, a lieutenant and engineer who was born in Pennsylvania on 6 May 1856. Peary believed all races are equal. Conse-quently, he had either a neutral or a sympathetic view on other races. Therefore, he offered Henson the job as his personal assistant on his next expe-dition, which went to Nicaragua in 1888, after the two men had exchanged travel accounts. Their first joint Greenland expedition started in 1891. It inclu-ded seven people, and it was considered extraordi-nary to have an Afro-American as a personal assi-stant, especially since Robert Peary’s wife Josephine joined the party.

In the spring of 1892 the team wintered and met with the Polar Inuit for the first time. Henson soon

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Matthew A. Henson’s Participation in the Quest for the North Pole in 1909By Aviaq Henson

01100422Matthew A. HensonValue: DKK 9.00Issue date: 21 June 200940 stamps per sheetSize: D – horizontalOutside measurements: 48 x 20.3 mmArtist: Naja AbelsenPrinting method: OffsetPaper: Sopal, white paperGraphical layout and print: Joh. Enschedé Security Print

Anaukaq Henson, Matthew Henson’s Inuit child, i.e. Aviaq Henson’s grandfather.

Matthew Henson, the first Afro-American on

the North Pole in 1909.

Factual information about the consequences of Global Warming becomes more and more necessary. This information you can obtain, if you acquired the album: Preserve the Polar Regions and Glaciers. POST Greenland’s stamp G414, issued on January 19th, is included in this beautiful album, along with all the other countries’ stamps issued in accordance with the theme ”Global War-ming”.

SavemoneyPOST Greenland does not sell the album. You the refore have to submit your order for this album to DAVO Philatelic Publishers, in The Netherlands, the manufactures and seller of these albums.

You are buying directly from the manufacturer at the lowest possible price.

DAVO Philatelic Publishers, P.O. Box 411, 7400 AK, Deventer, The Netherlands.

The price is EUR 95.00 for the album WITH all stamps. The album WITHOUT stamps costs EUR 37.50. The prices are inc. 6% Dutch VAT.You can order the album online at www.davo.nl

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Support a good cause

Buy the album ”Preserve the Polar Regions and Glaciers”

On the guest writerAviaq Henson is daughter of Matthew Henson’s grandchild Vittus Henson. Aviaq Henson is 29 years of age, is training to be a teacher and will graduate this summer. Aviaq took her A-levels in Greenland, attended folk high school abroad, etc. Aviaq has four brothers and sisters. Her parents live in Nuuk where she and her boyfriends are also residing.

Read more at www.matthewhenson.com.

The participants gathered in Qaanaaq on 6 April 2009 at the anniversary of Matthew Henson’s

quest for the North Pole.

became friends with the Polar Inuits who took him for their tribesman since he was the only one with dark skin almost identical to their suntanned skin. Henson soon learned the Inuit language and spoke it fluently, better than any other American. During the expedi-tion Henson worked as a sailor, navigator, carpenter, mechanic, sledge driver, sealer, etc. In addition, he was the interpreter. He performed so many duties du-ring the expeditions since many of his fellow expedi-tion members were replaced over the years. However, Peary had always included Henson in this expeditions since he was an indispensable travel companion who shared the big goal of reaching the North Pole. Hen-son was free to resign whenever he wanted, but he loved exploration and wanted to prove that an Afro-American could accomplish big things.

Anaukaq Henson was son of Matthew Henson. Anaukaq’s mother was a Polar Inuit named Aqattann-guaq. Her and Henson’s son was born in the late sum-mer or autumn of 1906 onboard the ship “Roosevelt” at Etah. Even though Matthew Henson was did not mention back in the USA that he had a son in Green-land, Anaukaq and all Polar Inuit people knew he was Matthew’s son. After reaching the North Pole in 1909 Matthew never returned to Thule. Consequently, he never saw his son again, even though Henson died as late as in 1955. Anaukaq became a great sealer and had seven children, of which two died soon after birth and one at the age of one. Through his four surviving sons he had many descendants. Robert Peary had two Inuit sons: Haamik, born 1900, and Kaali Peary, born a few days before or after Anaukaq, also onboard the Roosevelt in Etah. Their mother’s name was Aleqasina. Both women had Inuit men,

the brothers Qillaq and Piuaatsoq who both worked for the Americans. Anaukaq and the Peary brothers treated each other as cousins, and they lived in Etah until they had learned the sealer trade.

When Dr. Counter went to Moriusaq for the first time in 1986 he had never thought he would be so invol-ved with the Hensons. He invited Anaukaq and Kaali Peary to the USA in 1987 to fulfil their old dream of visiting their father’s country. With President Reagan’s permission Dr. Counter moved Matthew Henson’s remains from the grave in the Bronx, NY, to Natio-nal Arlington Cemetery in Virginia, the most presti-gious cemetery for presidents, honoured persons and soldiers. Former President Reagan, and later on and President Obama, wrote official letters, inviting family members from Greenland to the USA. Dr. Counter even had the monument designed. Among other things he is also responsible that a US Marine ship today bears the Henson name. He has visited Mori-usaq four times since he became so involved with the Hensons and Pearys of Thule. Moreover, he has writ-ten the book ”North Pole Legacy – Black, White and Eskimo” in which he gives an account of it all, from the first rumours in Sweden that Henson and Peary had Inuit sons until he first met Anaukaq and Kaali, including his last visit to Thule and his last assignment on Henson in 2001. He will make a documentary and would still like to visit Thule and keep in touch with the families.

Aviaq Henson (left), Matthew Henson’s great-

grandchild, with Dr. Counter’s

film assistant, Ana, at the anniversary

in Qaanaaq.

In order to celebrate an important event in Greenlandic history - the introduction of Self-Government - POST Greenland will be issuing a stamp, commemorating Greenlandic society.

As a society, we are proud that the rule of Self-Governance was passed and will be introduced on 21st June 2009. We are proud, that we shall finally be accepted as a people, and this will open the possibility of a higher degree of Self-Governance for the Greenlandic people.With the introduction of Self-Government, a new chapter begins in Greenlandic history. Now we can continue the development of the Greenlandic so-ciety and, the fact that the people in Greenland are ready for it was proved by the referendum on Self-Governance, which was held on 25th November 2008. The fact that 76% of the votes said ‘yes’ to

Self-Governance, shows that the Greenlandic soci-ety, really wants more Self-Governance.

One of the basic elements of a human being is the desire for Self-Governance. A man, who in his heart does not have a desire for Self-Governance, will become hesitant and will only wait for what other people decide. When we look, at the result of the referendum on Self-Governance, we can conclude that the Greenlandic society has a great desire to meet the future with a sound and bright philosophy.

Accountability will only be expressed through an active effort. During the period of Home Rule, we have initiated and completed many initiatives, and now the turn has come to the completion of Self-Governance. It will be a lot of work but, since it will result in a stronger society, we are pleased to embark. Working out of joy, provides the greatest results, and we can clearly sense that the Green-landic society is longing for the transition to Self-Governance.

The words characterising the effort being used in respect of the realisation of Self-Governance, are ‘cohesion’ and ‘understanding’. Among the Green-landic politicians, the work, has been done in unity and understanding. At the same time, the coopera-tion with the Danish politicians has taken place in a good way and we have achieved a result which we can be proud of “The Agreement on Self-Govern-ment”, which both sides could agree on.

Given the purpose of Self-Governance and the work to achieve, it is appropriate that POST Green-land has given the task of designing a stamp, as a celebration of the introduction of Self-Govern-ment, to one of our leading artists.Once again, one of our great artists, Aka Hoegh, has completed an admirable work, and you sense a feeling of joy by simply looking at the stamp.

The stamp is called ”The Road to Self-Governance” and, according to Akas own statement, people will have to form their own opinion about the work.Aka has designed the stamp only with positive

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Self-Governance in Greenland, 21st June 2009

The road to Self-Governance

By Premier Hans Enoksen

Aka Høegh

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01100427 Self-Governance in Greenland

Value: 6.25 Date of issue: 21st June 2009

20 stamps each. sheet Format: E - existing

Outer target: 50mm x 43.50 mm Photo: Aka Hoegh

Printing Method: Offset Paper: Sopal white paper Typography: Dorit Olsen

thoughts in mind and, according to her: “the mountains just emerged by themselves”. What she had in mind, when she designed the stamp, I have sensed to be more or less like this: If we, as a people, should gather common strength the road goes by way of Self-Governance. This is similar to a ship, its crew and captain. Everyone has their dif-ferent tasks, but they all have the same destination. The stronger holds the weaker by the hand and moves forward. They walk together in community, through light and darkness, towards the light and the sun’s rays, to the core of light, it gives strength to all and they walk together, through dialogue, lending a supporting hand to each other.

Hiking in the mountains gives strength and we will become stronger when we once again have reached the summit of the peak.The food of generations, all the animals, can be seen on the side of the stamp. If the animals disap-peared, man would have very difficult conditions.

The colours of the stamps tell of the Greenlandic colour com-position - the people’s delight of colours. Just look at women in their colourful national dresses, also look at our houses, full of dif-ferent colours.

The artist has made many encouraging and thoughtful ideas come to life. Yes, it is great that we have artists who can fill our inner life, and give it colour.

Common words also fill up our inner being and, I hope that through the let-ters you receive, you also will receive the spirit of Self-Governance. All gifts that we receive in our lives, we must receive with gratitude and cherish them; Self-Governance is such a gift.

Contemporary Greenlandic Art III

The women creating the stamp images for the third part of POST Greenland’s remarkable series of contemporary Greenlandic art belong to the circle of established Greenlandic artists which has con-siderable exhibition activity, both individually and in the Greenland artist association KIMIK. One of them, Camilla Nielsen was not, like the other two, Ivalo Abelsen and Naja Abelsen, born and raised in Greenland. But you need not be born in Greenland to find inspiration in its beautiful and sometimes harsh nature.

The artists creating stamp images express themselves in their own individual way. With naturalistic expres-sionism - from the inscrutable depths of the sea to stylised delicate water-coloured objects with a gui-ding image which expresses an historic quest, to the abstract expression, a fusion of rock, metal, ice in psychedelic colours blending into something that is poised on the edge of reality - a digital concussion

of water and rock?

It really shows that here is something on the heart. This raised questions about the nature of things, the relationship between contemporary and past. A me-ditation of redfish is quite unique.

The three stamps will be released in normal whole sheets and in a souvenir folder. This souvenir folder contains of course the three artists’ stamps in kind, while providing a view of each artist’s other work.

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Souvenir FolderContemporary Art III Item Number: 01303041 Day of issue: 21th June 2009Price DKK 57.00

By Henrik Pötzsch

Moderne grønlandsk kunst III

Contemporary Greenlandic Art III

Neue grönlandische Kunst III

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About the artist Ivalo Abelsen was born in Nuuk in 1971. She is a trained teacher in art and design. Ivalo Abelsen has a particular interest in the possibili-ties of using natural raw products artistically. She has especially studied the graphical options by doing pres-sings with typical Greenland and Scandinavian mate-rials such as unhaired sealskins, birch bark, skin from catfish etc.

Inspiration:In creating this stamp image, Ivalo Abelsen has been heavily engaged and inspired by the Dorset people’s ways of expressing their thoughts and philosophy on life. She completed her bachelor on the subject: The Art of the late Dorset at Ilisimatusarfik.

The stamp design is created with watercolour and ink. It depicts two polar bears, viewed from above.

Just as archaeologists investigate the essence of a past people by recreating millennium-old jars of clay, Abel-sen on this stamp interprets one of Greenland’s oldest cultural layers, with her paraphrase of handcrafted art by the Dorset people. One of the most beautiful examples of art objects from the period are the polar bears carved in bone - they are powerful stylised bears whose bodies are divided by hatchings in parallel and angled lines.

The fascination of polar bears is archetypal. Whilst speaking with today’s eyes you will understand why the polar bear held a special magic, why it was a cen-tral powerful animal to the ancient people of Green-land, which one admired and identified with through life.

Fact:AboutDorsetculture:Dorsetculturehaditsdaysofgloryfrom900ADto1100AD

Dorset culture has more characteristics, for example: The exquisite treatment of bone and whale tooth, a craft which included the outlining of geometric shapes and carvings of animal - and human figures.

Ivalo Abelsen:

01100424CONTEMPORARY ART III 1/3Value: 6.00 Day of issue: 21st June 2009 20 stamps per sheet Size: E – horizontalPrinting method: Offset Paper: Sopal, white paper Typography: Dorit Olsen Artist: Ivalo Abelsen

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About the artist Camilla Nielsen was born in 1972 in Esbjerg. She has studied at the Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Dijon, France and has taken training at the Art School in Nuuk. In addition, in 2003 she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada.

InspirationIt is a characteristic of Camilla Nielsen that she is dra-wing inspiration from a particular object, for example redfish, and that she through her career approaches already-known objects again with the important diffe-rence that she, as a person and an artist is evolving and that her choice of materials and exploitation of new sources of inspiration often are quite different from her previous approach.

Art School in Nuuk is close to the ”Board” means the place where freshly caught fish and game are sold by local hunters. For Camilla Nielsen this place was, along with a giant head of a redfish, caught on a trawler la-unching a long-standing fascination with fish motifs.

The redfish on the stamp, whose head impudently and elegant pops out of the stamp frame, was painted in acrylic, watercolour and ink.

According to Camilla Nielsen, the painting of fish is traditional and symbolic linked to eminent persons in Greenland’s intellectual life, whist the fish was one of the most powerful symbols back into emerging Chri-stianity. Therefore the fish represents the convergence of old and new, Western and non-Western values. The title of the work is therefore correctly. ”Window to the World”.

Camilla Nielsen

01100425 CONTEMPORARY ART III 2/3Value: 18.00 Day of issue: 21st June 2009 20 stamps per sheetSize: E – horizontalPrinting method: Offset Paper: Sopal, white paper Typography: Dorit Olsen Artist: Camilla Nielsen

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About the artist Naja Abelsen was born in Denmark in 1964, but spent most of her childhood in South Greenland, in the beautiful town of Qaqortoq. She trained at Denmark’s Design School and has studied at “ Billedskolen “ in Copenhagen and Holbæk Art School. Her inspiration and motivation comes from deep inside her self and is, according to her, the reason why her pictures often affect the viewer emotionally.

InspirationNaja Abelsen herself calls the image of the stamp for ”Gletscher”. The stamp image is created from a palette of materials, especially pearl, semi precious stones and copper. The materials consist of a diversity of minerals, metals and other objects located at various places in the world. The image is created based on the principle

of controlled randomness. The artist has moved objects zigzag-wise on a light-sensitive plate and this process has been “frozen “digitally and stored.

She works extensively with organic materials, often with items collected in the wild. E.g. money plant, dried up toads, dried up grass snakes, amber, orange peel and snail shells. As an artist, she inquisitively mo-ves within a wide range of materials and expressions, such as gouaches, watercolours, plant colour, jewellery and embroidery.

There is, through the artist’s work a fine textural sense, and an ever growing quest for the depth of the soul and nature itself, present in Naja Abelsens works.

Naja Abelsen

01100426 CONTEMPORARY ART III 3/3Value: 33.00 Day of issue: 21st June 2009 20 stamps per sheet Size: E – horizontal Printing method: Offset Paper: Sopal, white paper Typography: Dorit Olsen Artist: Naja Abelsen

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Here’s a short report on what can happen when you visit a stamp exhibition!

Last summer I moved back to Denmark after a period of having lived and worked in Greenland. Maniitsoq; one of the greatest experiences that I wanted to share with my girlfriend here was the Ice fjord at Ilulissat. That is why the joy was great when I was contacted after the Frimærke-Forum 08 exhibition and was told that I had won the fair’s main prize: a trip for two to Ilulissat!

Our first experience of Ilulissat was cold (-25 Cel-sius) and hazy. After we’d put on several layers of clothes, we went on a very interesting guided city tour. Subsequently, it was great to come home to the Hotel Arctic, and its highly addictive fireplace, where we spent several evenings enjoying a glass of red wine or coffee ...

The next day a dog sleigh took us to a vantage point above the inlet, which we unfortunately could not see because it was snowing heavily. The trip was still a fantastic and very special experience.

When we woke up Saturday morning it was not snowing and we could get the full benefit of the hotel room’s spectacular panoramic view of Disko Bay’s many icebergs. That day we explored the

countryside around Ilulissat - which was a truly magnificent and beautiful trip out to the settle-ment Sermermiut.

The last part of the planned programme was a boat trip between the icebergs on Sunday afternoon. An experience so spectacular that not even Oscar winning actors were able to steal my girlfriend’s attention. She struggled to avoid that the American who stood be-side her on the boat also appeared on her pictures of icebergs - and did not notice that it was the famous actor Russell Crowe who, together with Paramount Pictures were in Illulissat to record a movie.

.. A few thousand photographs bear witness of a myriad of good, indescribable and beautiful adven-tures from an unforgettable trip to Greenland!

Another good reason to collect stamps

By: Jeppe S. Skovmose the winner of a trip for two to Greenland donated at Frimærke-Forum’08 by POST Greenland

The winner of the 2008 subscriber competition is now known. The lucky subscriber, Anna Nielsen from Aarhus, has won 2 pieces of wooden, handmade east Greenlandic masks. The masks can be hung on the wall.

Anna Nielsen is a young lady of 79 years who has collected stamps since she was 16 years old. Besides Greenland, Anna also collects stamps from Denmark and the Faroe Islands. She also collected stamps from Sweden and Norway up until 2000, when she was confined to collect just the three countries. Anna has an almost complete collection of Greenlandic stamps. She states that she just lacks the oldest Greenlandic stamps.

Here from POST Greenland we send hearty congratulations to Anna Nielsen. We hope that the masks, together with our stamps, will help give Anna Nielsen many more good experiences with philately and Greenlandic art.

Lucky winner of the 2008 Subscriber Competition

Photo: Jeppe S. Skovmose

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The winner of 10,000 DKK kroner has been chosenIn connection with POST Greenland’s annual vote for the stamp which has earned the title as the ”2008 favourite Greenlandic stamp”, all those participants who entered the competition had their names included in a lottery for 10,000 tax free DKK kroner. It has again been a pleasure to receive votes from all four corners of the world.Commercial Services Manager of the new East-West municipality Sermersooq kommunia, Marie Rødgaard, was this years’ Fortuna ’, as it was she who drew the lucky winner. Sermersooq kommunia is one of the new municipals in Greenland after the municipal amalgamations 1st January 2009, which include Ammassalia Kommunia and Nuuk Kommu-nia - which became one municipal on that date. The lucky winner of 10,000 crowns, which Marie Rødgaard drew from among the many entry cou-pons, was Erik Juul Petersen from Roskilde in Den-mark. He had voted for the stamp: G410, which is part of the series Expeditions VI, issued on 20th October 2008. It shows the expedition ship ’Sofia’

which was engraved by Martin Mörck and printed in intaglio. It is with great pleasure that POST Greenland will present Erik Juul Petersen with a cheque and we readily congratulate him on his good fortune. Marie Rødgaard also drew another 10 lucky win-ners for a ’consolation prize’ in the form of the 2008 year pack. We also take this opportunity to thank everyone who participated in the vote and for their great interest in last year’s collection of Greenlandic stamps. The ten winners of the 2008 year pack are: Elias G. Olsen, Sisimiut, Greenland. Frank Blum, Indianapo-lis, USA. Mogens Dolberg, Brønderslev, Denmark. Hans Olaf Dark Berg, Egtved, Denmark. Poul Erik Nielsen, Them, Denmark. Torben Jensen, Blokhus, Denmark. Arne P. Nielsen, Odense, Denmark. Hans Jorgen Hansen, Gentofte, Denmark. M.G.R. Ba-rendrecht, Maassluis, The Netherlands. Agnes Wo-jtusch, Telge, Germany.

Greenlandic stamp of the year 2008

Voters could choose between a total of 19 stamps issued by POST Greenland in 2008. The winner was stamp G399, which shows the Greenlandic artist Bodil ’Buuti’ Pedersen’s beautiful interpretation of a polar bear, which is peaceful in the sun. Maybe it is sleeping, maybe there are babies? The stamp, issued 31st January 2008 was included in the second part of the series ’Modern Greenlandic art ’and had a value of DKK 14.25. Dorit Olsen was the responsible for the design.

Although ’Buutis polar bear’ – as the stamp was baptised - ran away with the victory, it was chased by a fierce compe-titor in G408, which was created by artist and engraver Yves Beaujard. This stamp shows the former French station in Sco-rebysund and is the second stamp in the series ’Science IV’, is-sued on 20th October 2008. Since the printing technique used for this stamp is a combination of steel engraving and offset, it belongs to POST Greenland’s range of traditional stamps, which are highly valued by collectors worldwide. This stunning second place in the competition to become the year’s most beautiful stamp highlights the fact that the noble printing tra-dition of intaglio is still popular.

The choice of the 2008 most beautiful Greenlandic stamp was nothing less than a tense thriller between a modern and a traditional stamp design.

The happy winner, Erik Juul Peder-sen, with the check

Marie Rødga-ard (left) draws the winner of the first prize on DKK 10.000 among the mant mailed votes.

The most beatiful stamps of 2008 - ”Buuti´s polar bear” G399.

The second place of the compe-tition - ”The franch station in Scoresbysund” G402.

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On 9th August the East Greenlandic village Kulusuk is celebrating its centenary and, to highlight this event POST Greenland will issue a new special cachet. Addressed and franked envelopes for cancellation with this special cachet should be sent in good time for the last promotion at POST Greenland, Philately,which is Friday 7thAugust.

The Headmaster at the elementary school in Kulusuk tells here more about the special cachet.By Lars-Peter Sterling, Principal:

The fact that it was the children from the school in Kulusuk, who proposed dra-wing the postmark on the occasion of the village’s centenary in 2009, may not surprise those who, over the last years, have followed the school’s activities.The creative subjects such as woodwork, moulding, and handcraft have a high priority, which led to the school being invited to represent East Greenland in the great Climate Exhibition at the Palais de la Découverte in Paris in Autumn 2007, an exhibition which later was shown at the museum in Qaqortoq.Cartoonist, Erna Ejstrup who has been visiting the school, designed the postmark together with the children, which shows the landmark of Kulusuk, the mountain Qalorujôrneq and one of the two polar bears which, last Winter, jogged around close to the village church.

Read in the next issue…

POST Greenland goes to Rome and Roskilde SEPAC - Scenery II Thule 100 years Science, Part V Expedition Series, Part VII Christmas Stamps Year pack 2009

Correctiontothearticleon125thanniversaryoftheArcticStationinNuuk In Greenland Collector, No. 3 / 2008, we published an article entitled ”125th anniversary of The Danish Arctic Station in Nuuk” Unfortunately, there were several errors in the article. We shall therefore correct them here. The article revealed that the German Karl Weyprecht had been in Greenland. That statement was incorrect. Weyprecht was never in Greenland. Furthermore, we wrote that Andreas Ginge showed that the compass needle was affected by the northern lights in 1877. But at that time, Ginge was long since dead. By contrast, the Danish leader of the expedition to Nuuk, Adam Frederick Wivet Paulsen, who thought he could show that the northern light was formed by the absorption of cathode rays made by atmospheric pressure was the first to propose this concept - a result, which now is widely recognised.POST Greenland regrets the errors in the article.

Flyfjeldet’ in Kulusuk. Private Foto.

Following our final sale on November 30th 2008, we can now publish the following sales figures:Item no. Title DKK Issue date Sales figures 01100337 Arctic Scaper-Stalk Bolete 5.25 17.01.2005 299,79301100377 Additional Value Stamp ”Amnesty” 5.75 + 0.50 15.01.2007 117,01401100378 EUROPE ”Scouts 1” 5,75 15.01.2007 284,38101100379 EUROPE ” Scouts 2” 7.50 15.01.2007 216,37101100394 Christmas Stamp 2007 / 1 5.75 08.11.2007 147,24501100395 Christmas Stamp 2007 / 2 7.50 08.11.2007 139,47301106377 Additional Value-souvenir sheets ”Amnesty” 25.00 15.01.2007 46,66101301112 Christmas Stamp Booklet No. 12 79,50 08.11.2007 14,311

News from POST Greenland Stamp Exhibitions Up to and including June 2009 POST Greenland will participate at: ”Ibra - Naposta”, Essen, 6th - 10th May. ”The 23rd Asian International Stamp Expo, Hong Kong, 14th - 17th May. ”NORDIA 2009”, Hafnafjördur (Reykjavik), 29th - 31st May. ”Napex 2009”, Washington DC, 5th - 7thJune.

A special POST Greenland cachet will be produced for each of the four exhibitions. Envelopes for cancellation with these special Greenlandic cachets must arrive at POST Greenland, Philatelic Office not later than the day before the exhibition opening date.POST Greenland will also, up to and including September, be represented at: ”National exhibition / Jonkoping’s philatelist Association”, Sweden, 5th - 6th September ”Stamps in Sedalia, Sedalia, Sweden, and 12th - 13th September.OTE: NO special cachets will be produced for these two later Greenlandic stamp exhibitions and collector events.

Centenary of Kulusuk

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One-year deadline for complaintsAny complaint concerning stamps or philatelic items purchased from POST Greenland must reach POST Green-land, Filatelia, no later than one year from the last day of the month in which the items were despatched. The date of the postmark, or possibly the invoice, indicates the date of despatch.

Fees for registered letters and parcels despatched from GreenlandThe fee for registered letters within Greenland or to Europe (including Denmark and the Faroes) is DKK 56.00. E.g.: Postage for a registered letter stamped with DKK 7.50 (max. 20 g.) comes to a total of DKK 63.50. For the surcharge of mail to overseas countries, see: www.post.gl.

Net payment within 30 daysPayment of our invoices is to be made within 30 days from the date of the invoice.Please note that the registration of your payments will take approximately two weeks or more. Therefore, you may receive an invoice with a balance which does not include your recent payments.

Exchange of stampsPOST Greenland, Filatelia, exchanges only unused stamps (stamps no longer on our sales list) into new stamps (stamps on our sales list) at the customer’s choice. No more than 3 exchanges free of charge at maximum DKK 100.00 each, per customer per year are permitted. When exceeding a total of 3 x DKK 100.00, POST Greenland, Filatelia, will charge a fee of 45% of the nominal value. The fee of 45% must always be paid in cash and is not payable by other stamps. The maximum annual value of stamps for exchange per customer must not exceed DKK 50,000 in nominal value.For further information, please contact POST Greenland, Filatelia.

All information on prices, fees etc. is subject to printer’s errors.

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Worth knowing

Publisher: POST Greenland · Editors: Tina Vestergaard, Finn Ib Larsen, Søren Sand Kristensen, Henrik Pötzsch. Chief Editor: Pertti Frandsen. · Layout & Printing: HellasGrafisk A/S · Cover Photo: Erwin ReinthalerISSN: 1397-8632

We are the people youreachwhenever you write, fax, e-mail or telephone POST Greenland, Filatelia. We look forward to offering our continued assistance with your philatelic enquiries.

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By: Finn LarsenGreenland has been on many lips around the world these last few years.The awareness of this very beautiful country and its people has increased. In the world of stamps you notice this interest too and there have been enquiries about Greenland’s beautiful stamps from all parts of the world.

IBRA-Naposta‘09This stamp exhibition in Essen, Germany is an annu-al recurring success among stamp collectors across Europe. Taking place in the heart of Europe and with many different Post Offices represented, this exhibition is one of the major international stamp

events. This year POST Greenland will spread its ‘northern light’ on the show in collaboration with Philagentur, which will represent POST Greenland. IBRA-Naposta ‘09 is the 19th of its kind and takes place this year from the 6th-10th of May 2009.www.ibra2009.de

The23rdAsiaInternationalStampExpoPOST Greenland has been invited to a stamp ex-hibition as far away as Hong Kong.POST Greenland will participate in a large and highly acclaimed exhibition, the 23rd Asia Interna-tional Stamp Expo in Hong Kong from 14th to 17th May 2009.We very much look forward to at-tend this show and exhibit our beautiful stamps in a part of the world which is so very different to the Greenlandic world.Especially, we shall be happy to show how talented Greenlandic artists are and

what they stand for, represented in the images fea-tured on the Greenlandic stamps.www.hkpsoc.com/hk2009/hkstampex2009.html

Nordia 2009 In Nordic context POST Greenland is participating in NORDIA 2009, which this year takes place in Hafnarfjörður (Reykjavik) from 29th to 31st May. We look forward to meeting with our loyal long standing, as well as new collectors, attending the exhibition. It will of course be possible to buy all our new stamps at the exhibition.www.nordia2009.is

‘Frimærkeforum09’The largest stamp exhibition of northern Europe, ‘Frimærkeforum 09’, is this year moving to Roskilde in Denmark. It takes place from 6th – 8th of No-vember 2009 in this beautiful historic city which is only 45 minutes drive from Copenhagen. There will be many activities emanating from the wonderful world of stamps. For more information, see page 2 inside the ma-gazine. www.frimforum.dk

Around the world with Greenlandic stamps

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