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50th Anniversary of the administrative annexation of the Svalbard archipelago.
Templet Mountain.
First stamp in a set of 3, issued on 14.08.1975.
Face value: 1 Norwegian krone.
Design and angraving: Henry Welde (1914-1991).
Printing: Recess.
Print: 4,050,000 copies.
Size: 30 x 24 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 723.
- Michel No. 709.
- Norgeskatalogen No. 757.
- Scott No. 660.
- StampWorld No. 725.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 743.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 665.

Templet Mountain is located north of Sassenfjorden, in the Sassen-Bünsow Land National Park. It stands 766 m (2,513 ft) above sea level, and is made up of many horizontal strata of shale, limestone, and silicon-carbon rocks. The characteristic little peak on the western edge of the mountain (visible in the stamp) is called Skiltvakten and protects the entrance to Gipsdalen. The mountain owes its name to its appearance, which from a distance resembles that of a Gothic temple in ruins due to the rocks carved vertically by the waters the thaw.