BASUTOLAND

BASUTOLAND (now Lesotho).

Definitive stamps.
Orange River and Queen Elizabeth II.
Second stamp in a set of 11, issued on 18.10.1954.
Face value: 1 British penny.
Printed by De La Rue & Co. Ltd., Basingstoke (England).
Printing: Recess.
Size: 32 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 47.
- Scott No. 47.
- StampWorld No. 47.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 44.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 47.

The Orange is the longest river in southern Africa. Its total length is 2,432 km (1,511 miles), its basin stretching from Lesotho to South Africa and Namibia to the north. It has its sources in the Drakensberg Mountains in Lesotho and flows west through South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean. The river is part of the international borders between South Africa and Lesotho and between South Africa and Namibia.