ALDERNEY

 ALDERNEY.

Definitive stamps.
Corblets Bay and Queen Elizaberth II.
Ninth stamp in a set of 12, issued on 14.06.1986.
Face value: 15 Guernsey penny.
Design: Gordon Drummond (1921-2001).
Printed by Courvoisier-Attinger Arts Graphiques S.A., Biel/Bienne (Switzerland).
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 740,519 copies.
Size: 37.9 x 29 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 9.
- Michel No. 9.
- Scott No. 9.
- StampWorld No. 9.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 9.
- Unificato No. 9.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 9.

Corblets Bay is located on the northernmost of the island, near the city of Saint Anne, and has a very popular beach. On its eastern side, at an altitude of 16 m (52.5 ft), is Fort Corblets (visible on the stamp), a now-ruined Victorian defensive construction built in the 1850s.