Published in January, April, July and October Edited by Bryan Jones
With effect from issue number 174, January 2006, Pacifica is in international A4 size (210 x 297mm) and may, where appropriate, include some illustrations in colour.
Recent (last 10 years, approximately) articles have covered:
Airmail – NATS survey flight, 1942; TRAPAS
American Samoa – the Post in American Samoa, 1970-1999
Canadian Pacific Islands – December 2003 emergency mail
Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) – new postal markings and local stamp booklets; 1977 "12 Days of Christmas" issue
Christmas Island (Pacific Ocean) – Abbot Rougier and his stamps
Clipperton Island – centenary
Cocos (Keeling) Islands– tin can and barrel mail after November 1951; earliest picture postcards
Cook Islands – list of postal permits (1999); the first issue; departure tax stamps; proofs of the 1927 4d value
Easter Island – the Easter Island carvings stamps of Chile
Fiji – the 1922-29 script watermark issue; new postal markings; recent postal rate changes; bisected stamps on cover; spectacular revenue stamp error; 2006/7 definitive surcharges; the cancellations of Wainunu
French Polynesia – philatelic memories of the Kon Tiki expedition; list of post offices and agencies (2003); postal stationery
Galapagos – updates
General – "doctor cards" in the Pacific; 1940-41 Archbold Expedition in the "Cheng-Ho"; mystery Pacific Islands cinderella sheetlet; mail services in the early 20th Century; the Megapode bird
Gilbert and Ellice Islands – 1952 postal rates; civil censorship in WW2; Tarawa Launch Mail covers; manuscript cancellations
Hawai'i – Hawai'i Post stamps, recent issues
Kiribati – Visit Report, 2006
Lord Howe Island – local courier post
Marcus Island – Postal markings
Marianas – cinderella ship label
Micronesia – Missionary mail to Micronesia; meter marks since postal independence
Marshall Islands – current postal markings
Nauru – new research at the British Library; new albino overprint discovery
New Caledonia – "Robin Force", WW2
New Hebrides – the "Roast Missionary" stamp; SG2a "overprint omitted"; the cruiser "Kersaint"; Pt Havannah, Port Sandwich and Port Vila cancellations; SECAP canceller - a mystery solved?: the Alavoine forgery of the 1910 French provisionals
New Zealand Dependencies – Raoul Island postal history; Kermadec Islands expedition mail
Norfolk Island – commemorating HM sloop "Norfolk"; unrecorded registration label; visit report, 2003; Rev George Nobbs correspondence
Republic of Palau – independent, 1 October 1994
Pitcairn – Frama labels; unique material lost in mails; stamp discoveries; Rev George Nobbs correspondence
Samoa – civil censorship in World War 2; recent postal markings; visit report, 2003; American naval cancellations (update)
Shipping – MV Malaita markings
Solomons – 1907 NSW combination covers; design and usage of 1907-08 Large Canoe adhesives; World War I propaganda label; "Northern" or "Southern"?
South American islands – Chilean POs on Tierra del Fuego and adjacent islands; Juan Fernandez ship visits; Tierra del Fuego; philatelic developments in Juan Fernandez
Tokelau – situation in 2004; the Loran system at Atafu
Tonga – stamp duty overprints; civil censorship in WW2; the 10s overprints; 2002-4 provisional overprints; visit report
Tuvalu – Crown Agents take over
US Territories – French Frigate Shoals; closure of Johnston Island post office; Chichi Jima island; the Bikini Atoll postmarks of 1986
Vanuatu – Scenic definitive overprints; the facts behind the manuscript surcharges; current Port Vila cancellations; visit report, 2006
Wallis and Futuna – forged overprints on the Internet
Plus book reviews, new issue information, auction realisations and Study Circle news etc.
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