CANADA.
Centenary of Arctic Islands acquisition.
Map of Canada with localization of the Arctic Islands.
Stamp issued on 23.01.1980.
Face value: 17 cents of Canadian dollar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 25,300,000 copies.
Size: 36 x 30 mm.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 758.
- Scott No. 847.
- StampWorld No. 758.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 970.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 726.
The Canadian Arctic Archipelago is located in the extreme north of America, in the Arctic Ocean, and is made up of 36,563 islands, populated by some 10,000 indigenous Inuit. It cover an area of approximately 1,424,500 km2 (550,000 sq mi) and are part of the Northeast, Nunavut and Yukon Territories of Canada. Claimed by Great Britain since 1570, from the explorations carried out by Martin Frobisher, they came under Canadian sovereignty in 1880. The main islands of the archipelago are: Baffin, 507,451 km2 (195,928 sq mi), with a population of more than 9,500 inhabitants; Victoria, of 217,291 km2 (83,897 sq mi) and about 1,700 inhabitants; Ellesmere, of 196,236 km2 (75,767 sq mi) and just 150 inhabitants; and Banks, of 70,028 km2 (27,038 sq mi) and a hundred inhabitants. Canada claims all the waterways of the Northwest Passage as Canadian Inland Waters, but the United States and most other maritime countries consider them international waters.
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