MADAGASCAR

MADAGASCAR / REPOBLIKA MALAGASY.

Tourism.
Nossi-bé. Andoany (Hell-Ville) port.
Airmail stamp issued on 07.05.1962.
Face value: 100 French African CFA francs.
Design and engraving: René Cottet (1902-1992).
Printing: Recess.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 482.
- Scott No. C70.
- StampWorld No. 531.
- Stanley Gibbons No. R 44.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA87.

Nossi-bé (now Nosy Be) is an island in the Indian Ocean, in the Antsiranana Province, about 8 km (5 mi) off the coast of Madagascar. Its estimated population is about 109,000 people, according to the census of 2018. Its capital is Andoany, called Hell-Ville (after Admiral Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell) during the French colonization: it was founded by the French in 1841 to establish there a military port, which is currently a civil and commercial port (it is the one seen on the stamp).