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The World United Against Malaria.
Taal Lake (Lawa ng Taal).
Second stamp in a set of 3, issued on 24.10.1962.
Face value: 10 cents of Philippine peso.
Printing: Photogravure.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 711.
- Scott No. 869.
- StampWorld No. 717.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 922.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 554.
Lake Taal, formerly known as Lake Bombón, is a freshwater volcanic crater lake in the province of Batangas, on the island of Luzon. The lake fills a large caldera of the Taal volcano formed by large eruptions between 500,000 and 100,000 years ago. Its length is 25 km (16 mi) and its width is 18 km (11 mi). It has an area of 234.2 km2 (90.4 sq mi) and its average depth is 100 m (330 ft). Until the beginning of the 18th century, the lake had an outlet to the sea and was navigable, but a series of eruptions from the Taal volcano, which ended in 1754, blocked that outlet and caused several populations to be submerged by rising water levels.
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