TASMANIA

 

TASMANIA.

Landscapes.
Mount Wellington.
Second stamp in a set of 8, issued on 13.12.1899.
Face value: 1 Australian penny.
Printing: Recess.
Size: 28 x 36 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 62.
- Scott No. 87.
- StampWorld No. 55.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 230.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 60.

Mount Wellington (in Palawa kani, Kunanyi) is a mountain in the southeastern coastal region of Tasmania. It is the summit of the Wellington Range, standing 1,271 m (4,170 ft) above sea level, and it is often covered in snow, sometimes even in summer. It is located within the Wellington Park preserve, just 22 km (14 miles) from the city of Hobart. No Europeans visited Tasmania until the late 18th century, when the French Marion du Fresne (1772) and the English Tobias Furneaux (1773) arrived in the south of the island (then known as Van Diemens Land). In 1793, Commodore John Hayes came to the Derwent River and named the mountain Skiddaw, although this name never gained popularity. In February 1836, Charles Darwin visited the city of Hobart and climbed Mount Wellington. In 1895 Clement Lindley Wragge installed the first weather station on the mountain.

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