AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

National Parks.
Mount Field National Park, Tasmania.
Last stamp in a set of 7, issued on 09.04.1979.
Face value: 20 cents of Australian dollar.
Design: Max Robinson (1934-2018).
Printed by Asher and Co., Melbourne.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 27 x 38 mm.

Catalogs
- Brusden-White No. 843.
- Michel No. 679.
- Scott No. 706.
- Seven Seas Stamps No. 730.
- StampWorld No. 678.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 714.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 661.

Mount Field National Park is located in Tasmania, 64 km (40 mi) northwest of Hobart. The landscape ranges from eucalyptus temperate rainforest to alpine moorland, rising to 1,434 m (4,705 ft) at the summit of Mount Field West. The Park was established in 1916. Its area is 162.65 km2 (62.8 sq mi). The area around Russell Falls (pictured in the stamp) has been protected for its natural beauty since 1885, when it was set aside as Tasmania’s first nature reserve. The Park was named for Judge Barron Field, who visited Tasmania as an itinerant judge in 1819 and 1821.