TRISTAN DA CUNHA.
Plan of Capt. Demhan's detail (1853).
Last stamp in a set of 3, issued on 22.05.1981.
Face value: 21 British pence.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Catalogs
- Michel No. 302.
- Scott No. 292.
- StampWorld No. 301.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 306.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 290.
Vice Admiral Henry Mangles Denham (August 28, 1800 - July 3, 1887) was a Royal Navy officer. On July 30, 1845, he was made commander of HMS Avon, surveying the west coast of Africa. Between 1864 and 1866, he served as Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Station. Specialized in hydrographic work, he drew several maps, including that of the island of Tristan da Cunha: the stamp shows a fragment corresponding to the Settlement, founded in 1816 in the northwest of the island and called, in 1867, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas (regarded as the most remote permanent settlement on Earth).
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