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SPECIFICATIONS:
MASS: 28.275 grams
DIAMETER: 38.80
THICKNESS: 3.21
METAL: .500 Silver content 14.14 grams
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Events that happened during the time Union Coinage
was being used
3rd December 1959 was an important day in South African’s
Polar history.
66 years ago South African National Antarctic Expedition (SANAE) 1 left from Cape Town on the 3rd of December 1959 to only arrive on the 8th of January 1960 at the Antarctic Ice Shelf.
Excerpts from the publication, “The White Horizon” by Andre le Roux van der Merwe
“The expedition preparation had been completed in record time – a mere two and a half months for a task which could potentially have taken years. This was largely possible due to the appointment of J.J. (Hannes) La Grange as Expedition Leader. The only member of the team with prior Antarctic experience, La Grange had been one of two South African meteorologists with the 1955-1958 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE) under the leadership of Sir Vivian Fuchs, with the New Zealand Ross Sea support team led by Sir Edmund Hillary. La Grange, the first South African to set foot at the geographical South Pole, was awarded the British Polar Medal and the bronze medal of the Royal Geographic Society, and also the first medal of the South African Academy for Science and Arts for his participation with the TAE (Trans-Atlantic Expedition). Source: Antarctic Legacy of South Africa
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