BELGIUM

BELGIUM / BELGIË - BELGIQUE.

Westhoek Nature Reserve.
Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 11.03.1967.
Face value: 1 Belgian franc.
Design: Jean van Noten (1903-1982).
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 4,500,000 copies.
Size: 41 x 28 mm.

Catalogues
- AFA No. 1487.
- COB No. 1409.
- Michel No. 1469.
- Scott No. 684.
- StampWorld No. 1475.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2010.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1409.

Westhoek Nature Reserve is a cross-border territory between the Belgian province of West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen) and the French departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais, on the shores of the North Sea. The 340-hectare Belgian reserve was created in 1957 and is the oldest in the country; the French, part of which is known as Dunes du Perroquet, has an area of 225 ha. It is, as a whole, an area of wooded ridges, polders and dunes, in which Mont Cassel (Kasselberg, in Dutch) stands out, 176 m (577 ft) high, which is located in the French part. The stamp reproduces a dune landscape in the coastal area.