ICELAND

ICELAND / ÍSLAND.

International Year of Mountains.
Mount Snæfell.
Stamp issued on 07.03.2002.
No face value: postage for letters up to 20 g.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 500,000 copies.
Size: 36 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 989.
- Michel No. 1002.
- Scott No. 959.
- StampWorld No. 1003.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1014.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 932.

Mount Snæfell is a 1,446 m (4,744 ft) high stratovolcano, located in western Iceland, at the end of the Snæfellsnes peninsula (Vesturland region), within the Snæfellsjökull National Park (in Icelandic, Þjóðgarðurinn Snæfellsjökull), on the shores of Faxaflói Bay, established in 2001. The top of the volcano is covered by the Snæfellsjökull glacier, visible on the stamp. Jules Verne, in his novel Journey to the Center of the Earth, places the entrance to the subsoil in the crater of this volcano (based on a manuscript by the 16th century Icelandic alchemist Arne Saknussemm).