AUSTRALIA.
Tourism.
Mount Buffalo National Park.
Fourth stamp in a set of 6, issued on 25.08.1976.
Face value: 50 cents of Australian dollar.
Design: Otto Borchert.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 25 x 38 mm.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 613.
- Scott No. 644.
- Seven Seas Stamps No. 668.
- StampWorld No. 612.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 630.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 598.
The Mount Buffalo National Park, established in November 4, 1898, is a mountain plateau located in the state of Victoria, in the Australian Alps, approximately 350 km (220 mi) northeast of Melbourne. Its area is 310 km2 (119.7 sq mi) and the highest point of Mount Buffalo is a granitic formation at 1,723 m (5,653 ft) above sea level. Explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell named the mountain in 1824 because of its supposed resemblance to a reclining buffalo. In the park are the Owens and Buckland rivers and the Qahtani Reservoir, as well as the largest erratic rock in the world, known as Leviathan, which measures 33 x 21 x 12 m. On November 7, 2008, the park was inscribed on the Australian National Heritage List.
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