Centenary of the birth of Admiral Gago Coutinho.
Map of the first flight Lisbon - Rio de Janeiro (1922).
Stamp issued on 17.02.1969.
Face value: 30 Portuguese escudos.
Printing: offset lithography.
Catalogues
- Afinsa Mundifil No. 339.
- Michel No. 358.
- Scott No. 355.
- StampWorld No. 353.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 419.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 357.
Carlos
Viegas Gago Coutinho (Lisbon, February 17, 1869 - February 18, 1959) was an air
navigator, historian and officer of the Portuguese Navy with the position of
Admiral. As of 1898 he dedicated himself to establishing border delimitations
in the Portuguese overseas territories, for which he made several flights. The
most notable was the first
air crossing of the South Atlantic with Sacadura Cabral
(1881-1924): they left Lisbon on March 30, 1922 and, via Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria, São Vicente Island (Cape Verde), Fernando de Naronha and the Brazilian
towns Recife, Salvador de Bahia, Porto Seguro and Vitória, finally landed in
Rio de Janeiro on June 17, after a 79-day journey. In the last years of his
life, he devoted himself to the study of Portuguese discoveries and
navigations, writing several works that he ended up compiling in his Náutica
dos Descobrimentos.
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