INDONESIA.
Tourism. Mount Bromo (Gunung Bromo).
First stamp in a set of 3, issued on 20.10.1987.
Face value: 140 Indonesian rupiah.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 42 x 26 mm.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 1237.
- Scott No. 1329.
- StampWorld No. 1280.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1860.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1125.
Mount Bromo (in Indonesian, Gunung Bromo), is an active volcano and part of the Tengger massif, in East Java. At 2,329 meters (7,641 ft) it is not the highest peak of the massif, but is the best known. The volcano belongs to the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park. The name of Bromo derived from Javanese pronunciation of Brahma, the Hindu creator god. Mount Bromo sits in the middle of a plain called the Tengger Sea of Sand (in Indonesian, Lautan Pasir Tengger), a protected nature reserve since 1919. The last eruptions of the volcano occurred in 2004, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2019.
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