World's First Antarctic Coin

  The world's first Antarctic coin has just been struck earlier this month at the Pobjoy Mint in Kingswood (the largest privately owned mint in Europe, just a stone's throw from our offices here at Discover the World, funnily enough).  Philippa Foster Back, Chairman of the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust and granddaughter of Frank Debenham (who accompanied Scott on his famous expedition to the South Pole) struck the first coin in the company of representatives of the Foreign and Commonwealth Polar Regions Unit, the British Antarctic Survey, the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust and the Scott Polar Research Institute.  The new coin, issued on behalf of the British Antarctic Territory, commemorates the centenary of granting of Letters Patent in 1908, a formal declaration by the Crown that the land was British.   You can purchase the coins from the UKAHT's shop, and in doing so will support the preservation of the historic huts and the UK's Antarctic Heritage.