31/12/2020

AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY


AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY.

Mount Coates, in Victoria Land.
Fourth stamp in a set of 10, issued on 18.07.1984.
Face value: 30 cents of Australian dollar.
Design: Gary Emery.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 26 x 38 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 66.
- Scott No, 66. (?)
- Seven Seas Stamps No. 64.
- StampWorld No. 66.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 69. 
- Yvert et Tellier No. 65.

Mount Coates is an Antarctic peak, 2,060 m (6,760 ft) high, just east of the Borns Glacier in the Kukri Hills of Victoria Land (in an area claimed by New Zealand). It was named by the geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor, of the British Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), in homage to his friend Harold Coates.

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