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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Trans-Antarctic Expedition
| Issuer | Pobjoy Mint |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#33A |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | (PM) Pobjoy Mint, Surrey, United Kingdom (1965-2023) |
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The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1955–58, led by Vivian Fuchs and supported overland by Edmund Hillary, was the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent — completing a route Shackleton had famously failed to finish in 1914. Hillary, tasked only with laying supply depots, pushed ahead to the South Pole itself on January 4, 1958, making him the first person to reach it by vehicle. Fuchs arrived 16 days later to complete the full traverse.
This Pobjoy issue appeared nearly 50 years after the expedition's conclusion, struck for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Fuchs died in 1999; Hillary in January 2008, just months after this coin was released.