ALDERNEY

ALDERNEY.

Definitive stamps.
Map of Alderney Island, Coat of Arms and portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
First stamp in a set of 12, issued on 14.06.1983.
Face value: 1 Guernsey penny.
Design: Gordon Drummond (1921-2001).
Printed by Courvoisier, La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland).
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 1,337,865 copies.
Size: 39.7 x 29 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 1.
- Michel No. 1.
- Scott No. 1.
- StampWorld No. 1.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1.

Alderney (French: Aurigny; Auregnais: Aoeur'gny) is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is 5 km (3 mi) long and 2.4 km (1.5 mi) wide. The island's area is 8 km2 (3 sq mi), making it the third-largest island of the Channel Islands, and the second largest in the Bailiwick. It is around 15 km (10 mi) to the west of the Cotentin Peninsula, in Normandy (France), 30 km (20 mi) to the northeast of Guernsey and 100 km (60 mi) from the south coast of Great Britain. In March 2018 , the island had a population of 2019. Alderney has had its own postal administration since 1983: this stamp belongs to the first set issued.