Undersea Post Office
A- letter received by an Auckland resident bears the curious cancellation “Sea Floor, Bahamas. May 6, 1940,” having been posted in the Williamson Photosphere, near Nassau, in the Bahamas. Recently, the explorer Williamson opened to the public his glass-cabined observatory at the bottom of the 'sea, built originally several yeas ago to enable ( him to study marine life, and the postal authorities soon afterwards decided to open a post office there. Tbev are now selling a stamp on - which appears King George VI. surrounded by sea plants, and bearing the inscription “Bottom of the Sea, Bahamas,”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20275, 17 June 1940, Page 12
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99Undersea Post Office Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20275, 17 June 1940, Page 12
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