LATVIA

LATVIA / LATVIJA.

Nature monuments.
Vaiķi Boulder (Vaiķu dižakmens).
Stamp issued on 07.06.2008.
Face value: 22 Latvian santims.
Design: Ludis Danilāns (b. 1956).
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 3,000,000 copies.
Size: 32 x 32 mm.

Catalogues
- AFA No. 735.
- Michel No. 735.
- StampWorld No. 729.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 730.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 709.

Vaiķi Boulder (in Latvian, Vaiķu dižakmens), also known as Napoleon Boulder, is a rock produced by erosion located in the Vīpe Parish (Krustpils municipality, Latgale region), of about 650 inhabitants, on the right bank of the Daugava river. The easily accessible rock is made of red crystal granite and is 7.5 m (24.6 ft) long, 5.7 m (18.7 ft) wide, 2.6 m (8.53 ft) high, and 22.30 m (73.16 ft) in circumference, and its volume is about 50 m³ (1,766 ft³). There are two legends about the Boulder: one says that it was left there by the devil; the other, that Tsar Peter I of Russia and Napoleon had lunch on the stone.