1820: Chart by Aaron Arrowsmith showing “Post Office” written on Charles Isle.

1917: HMS Lancester crew at the Post Office barrel.

1926: Gunnar Andersen from Nordstrand and the 12-year-old Rolf Pettersen from Oslo stand by one of the two mail barrels then at Post Office Bay. Sign reads “Erected by British Scientific Expedition, S. Y. (Sail Yacht) St. George in August, 1924.”

1935: Photo by Heinz Wittmer.

January, 1938: Photo by Hancock Expeditions, showing Dar Pomorza plaque on Post Office barrel, after 1934 restoration by ship's company.

January, 1938:
Captain G. Allan Hancock at the Post Office barrel.

1938: USS Erie at Post Office Bay

A ca. 1962 postcard. Insets show:
1958: White Seal
1961: Albatross
1954: Tropic Bird

ca. 1990: Barrel sketch from Pensión Wittmer brochure.
Note “Deriska Turkey” at bottom.

Above, ca. 1990: Detail from Pensión Wittmer brochure. At right, “In the year of our marriage, July(?), 1930(?)” [The rest is illegible.] Believed to be a reference to the marriage of Heinz & Margret Wittmer.
Left: A 2007 photo inset shows the Deriska visited on 22 April 1990. However, the sign was not present before 2007 (see photos that follow) and its condition suggests it was placed there quite recently.

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