UNITED KINGDOM, Scotland

UNITED KINGDOM. Scotland.

Landscapes.
The Cairngorms.
Last stamp in a set of 4, issued on 02.05.1966.
Face value: 1/6 British shillings.
Design: Leonard Rosoman (1913-2012).
Printed by Harrison and Sons Ltd.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 5,462,640 copies.
Size: 41 x 24 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 415.
- Michel No. 421.
- Scott No. 457.
- StampWorld No. 401.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 692.
- Unificato No. 440.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 440.

The Cairngorms (Scottish Gaelic: Am Monadh Ruadh) are a mountain range in the eastern Scottish Highlands closely associated with the mountain Cairn Gorm. The Cairngorms became part of Scotland's second national park (the Cairngorms National Park) on September 1, 2003. The Cairngorms consists of high plateaux at about 1000-1200 m above sea level, above which domed summits (the eroded stumps of once much higher mountains) rise to around 1300 m. Many of the summits have tors, free-standing rock outcrops that stand on top of the boulder-strewn landscape. The Cairngorms formed 40 million years before the last ice age, when a slight uplift raised an eroded peneplain based on an exposed granite pluto.

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Thanks to Giovanna Goric for his contribution.