NETHERLANDS

NETHERLANDS / NEDERLAND.

350th Anniversary of Abel Tasman's Discovery of New Zealand.
Old map of Wainui Inlet coast, in South Island of New Zealand, and Tasman's Route.
Stamp issued on 12.03.1992.
Face value: 70 Dutch cents.
Design: Heng Glaesener.
Printed by Joh. Enschedé Stamps, Haarlem, Netherlands.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 12,432,050 copies.
Size: 37 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 1437.
- Michel No. 1435.
- Scott No. 809.
- StampWorld No. 1435.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1636.
- Yvert et Tellier No.  1399.

Abel Tasman (1603-1659) was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company. He was the first known European explorer to reach New Zealand and the islands of Fiji and Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). On December 13, 1642 the members of his two-ship expedition sighted land on the north-west coast of the South Island, becoming the first Europeans to sight New Zealand. Tasman named it Staten Landt "in honor of the States General" (Dutch parliament). On December 18, the ships anchored near Wainui Bay, north of what is now Abel Tasman National Park. The expeditionaries had a violent encounter with the local indigenous Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri. Tasman named the place Moordenaers ('Assassins') Bay before sailing east to the Manawatu coast of the North Island.

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

Navigators.
Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603-1659) and ship "Heemskerk".
First stamp in a set of 6, issued on 09.10.1963.
Face value: 4 Australian shilling.
Design: Walter Jardine (1884-1970).
Printing: Recess.
Print: 5,199,052 copies.
Size: 38 x 24 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 331.
- Scott No. 374.
- Seven Seas Stamps No. 386.
- StampWorld No. 330.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 355.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 299.

Abel Janszoon Tasman (Lutjegast, province of Groningen, 1603 - Batavia, present-day Djakarta, October 10, 1659) was a Dutch sailor, explorer and merchant, famous for the voyages made between 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC). His was the first known European expedition to reach the present-day island of Tasmania at the end of 1642, to which he gave the name of Van Diemen's Land (honor of Anthony van Diemen, governor general of the Dutch East India Company who promoted the expedition), and to New Zealand, and who sighted the Fiji Islands in 1643. Tasman, his pilot, Visscher, and his purser, Gilsemans, charted important parts of the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and several of the Pacific islands.

AUSTRALIA

 

AUSTRALIA.

Australia Day 1980.
Map of Australia and Matthew Flinders's portrait.
Stamp issued on 23.01.1980.
Face value: 20 cents of Australian dollar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 38 x 26 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 699.
- Scott No. 726.
- Seven Seas Stamps No. 751.
- StampWorld No. 698.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 728.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 688.

Matthew Flinders (Donington, Lincolnshire, March 16, 1774 - London, July 19, 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer who led the first coastal circumnavigation of the land mass now known as Australia. He is also credited with being the first person to use the name Australia to describe the entirety of that continent. Flinders participated in several voyages of discovery between 1791 and 1803, in one of which he and George Bass confirmed that Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) was an island. In 1803, while returning to England, he was arrested by the French governor on the Isle de France (Mauritius): Britain and France were at war, Flinders thought that the scientific nature of his work would ensure safe passage, but he remained in detention for more than six years. In captivity, he recorded details of his travels for his future publication, but his A Voyage to Terra Australis, which included an atlas, was published the same year as his death.

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

Navigators.
George Bass, navigator and explorer (1771-1803).
Fifth stamp in a set of 6, issued on 14.02.1966.
Face value: 2 Australian dollars.
Printing: Recess.
Engraving and printed by Note Printing Branch, Craigieburn (Voctoria) Australia.
Print: 12,609,100 copies.
Size: 24 x 29 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 378.
- Scott No. 416.
- Seven Seas No. 440.
- StampWorld No. 377.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 402.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 339.

George Bass, British surgeon, navigator and explorer, was born in Aswarby (Lincolnshire) on January 30, 1771 and disappeared at sea, off the coast of eastern Australia, in February 1803. Enlisted in the Royal Navy as a surgeon, he arrived in Sydney (New South Wales) on September 7, 1795. In October of the same year he set sail accompanied by Matthew Flinders, to explore coasts beyond those discovered by the colonists, the following year he explored more remote areas and in 1797 he came with Flinders to the strait that bears his name, between South Australia and present-day Tasmania, which he circumnavigated in 1798 and confirmed that it was an island. In January 1803 he undertook a journey from Sydney to New Zealand to locate fishing areas, but nothing was heard from him again.

NEW ZEALAND

NEW ZEALAND / AOTEAROA.

Restoration of penny in the postage stamps. Stylized map of New Zealand.
Stamp for universal postage isued on 01.10.1923.
Face value: 1 penny.
Design: R. F. Joyce.
Engraved by W. R. Bock, Wellington.
Printing: Typography.
Printed by Government Printing Office, New Zealand.
Size: 20 x 23 mm.

Catalogues
- Scott No. 175.
- StampWorld No. 179.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 460.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 176.