DENMARK

DENMARK / DANMARK.

Danish islands.
Avernakø Island.
First stamp in a set of 4, issued on 16.03.1995.
Face value: 3.75 Danish krone.
Design: Eric Mourier (b. 1939).
Engraving: Arne Kühlmann Hansen (1939-2017). 
Printing: Recess.
Print: 25,100,000 copies.
Size: 41 x 24 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 1086.
- Michel No. 1096.
- Scott No. 1022.
- StampWorld No. 1099.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1043.
- Unificato No. 1099.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1099.

Avernakø is an island in the south of Funen archipelago, belonging to the Association of Small Danish Islands. It has an area of 5.9 km² (2.28 sq mi) and is part of the municipality of Faaborg-Midtfyn. It is characterized by its elongated shape and strongly mountainous terrain; it has an approximate length of 8 km (5 mi) and its population, in 2021, was 110 inhabitants. It is made up of two islands, Abernak and Korshavn, which in 1937 were joined by a 700 m (2,300 ft) long dyke, called Drejet. The island arose about 15,000 years ago from the deposits left by the glacier of the last glaciation as it descended the high Scandinavian mountains. Finds of three stone dolmens and stone age tools indicate that the island was inhabited around 5,000 years ago. In 2000 the western part of Arnakø was designated a Nature reserve.

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).