FAROE ISLANDS

FAROE ISLANDS / FØROYAR.

Eysturoy Island.
Leirvík.
Third stamp in a set of 3, issued on 13.02.2006.
Face value: 20 Faroese króna.
Design: J. A. Arge.
Printed by Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Wien.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 35 x 35 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 551.
- Michel No. 559.
- Scott No. 469.
- StampWorld No. 541.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 508.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 555.

Leirvík is a town on the east coast of Eysturoy Island, on the shores of the Leirvíksfjørður strait. It was an important regional ferry harbor until April 2006, when the 6.2 km (3.85 mi) long Nordoy tunnel to Klaksvík was opened. In 2022, the town had a population of 1,048. Archaeological excavations show that Leirvík was settled by the Vikings in the 9th century. The local economy is based on a shipyard and, above all, on fishing. Also visible on the stamp is the 612 m (2,008 ft) Sigatindur mountain.

SPAIN

SPAIN / ESPAÑA.

Stamp Exhibition ESPAMER 96, Seville.
Air postal line Seville-Larache 1921.
Map of southern Spain and northern Morocco with the route.
First stamp in a minisheet of 4, issued on 04.05.1996.
Face value: 100 Spanish pesetas.
Printed by F.N.M.T. (Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre), Madrid.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 1,200,000 copies.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 3357.
- Edifil No. 3433A.
- Michel No. 3277.
- Scott No. 2851a.
- StampWorld No. 3283.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 3011.

The Seville-Larache airline was inaugurated on October 15, 1921 with a De Havilland DH-9 plane from CETA (Compañía Española de Tráfico Aéreo [Spanish Air Traffic Company], created in 1920) piloted by the Englishman Jack Hatchett, carrying, in addition to its postal cargo , three passengers and an autograph letter from King Alfonso XIII addressed to General Emilio Barrera, greeting the Spanish troops fighting in Africa.

CANADA

CANADA.

Opening of Confederation Bridge, Northumberland Strait.
Stamps issued on 31.05.1997.
Face value: 45 + 45 cents of Canadian dollar.
Design: Charles Burke and Jim Hudson.
Printed by Canadian Bank Note Company, Ottawa.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 4,000,000 copies.
Size: 112 x 28 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1623-1624.
- Scott No. 1646a.
- StampWorld No. 1623-1624.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1731a.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1515-1516.

The Confederation Bridge (French: Pont de la Confédération) is a box girder bridge carrying the Trans-Canada Highway across the Abegweit Passage of the Northumberland Strait, linking the province of Prince Edward Island with the province of New Brunswick on the mainland. Opened May 31, 1997, the 12.9-kilometre (8.0 mi) bridge is Canada's longest bridge and the world's longest bridge over ice-covered water. Construction took place from October 1993 to May 1997. In April 2022, the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island voted unanimously in favor of renaming the bridge to "Epekwitk Crossing", whereas Epekwitk is the traditional Mi'kmaq name for Prince Edward Island.

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Thanks to Krystyna Betiuk for his contribution (https://pocztowkowezbiory.blogspot.com/)

MALTA

MALTA.

National Heritage of the Maltese Islands.
Gozo Channel.
Tenth stamp in a set of 12, issued on 09.12.1991.
Face value: 50 Maltese cents.
Design: Frank Portelli (1922-2004).
Printed by Printex Ltd.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 36 x 27 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 880.
- Scott No. 792.
- StampWorld No. 879.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 914.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 859.

The Gozo Channel (Maltese language: Fliegu ta’ Għawdex) is short stretch of Mediterranean Sea separating the Maltese island of Gozo from the northern tip of Malta. It is about 7 km (4.3 mi) long and varies in width from 6.7 km (4.2 mi) at its widest to 4.5 km (2.8 mi) at its northeastern end. At the centre of the channel are the islands of Comino and Cominotto. The channel serves as a sea route link between the two islands with a ferry service run by Gozo Channel Line running all year round from the ports of Mġarr Harbour and Ċirkewwa.

JAPAN

JAPAN / 日本

Kanmon Bridge connecting Honshū and Kyūshū islands.
Stamp issued on 14.11.1973.
Face value: 20 Japanese yen.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 38,000,000 copies.
Size: 42 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1191.
- Sakura: C628.
- Scott No. 1151.
- StampWorld No. 1181.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1333.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1093.

The Kanmon Bridge (関門橋) is a three-span suspension bridge crossing the Kanmon Straits, a stretch of water separating the Japan's islands of Honshū and Kyūshū. It connects the towns of Shimonoseki, on the island of Honshū, and Kitakyushū, on the island of Kyūshū. It was opened to vehicles on November 14, 1973. The central length of the bridge is 1,068 m (3,504 ft). Its height from the bottom of the beam to sea level is 61 m (200 ft).

BERMUDA

BERMUDA.

Forteresses,
Smiths and Pagets forts, Saint George.
Lasr stamp in a set of 4, issued on 18.11.1982.
Face value: 1 Bermudian dollar.
Printing: Offset lithography.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 421.
- Scott No. 432.
- StampWorld No. 424.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 456.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 422.

Saint George's Town, in northern Bermuda, settled in 1612, is the first permanent English (and later British) settlement in America. It was declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 2000. The set of its numerous fortifications, some of which are still preserved, illustrate the development of English military engineering between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, with the necessary adaptations for development of artillery in this period.

ISLE OF MAN

ISLE OF MAN / ELLAN VANNIN.

Sea birds and landscapes.
Shags at the Calf of Man Island.
Second stamp in a set of 4, issued on 15.02.1983.
Face value: 11 Manx penny.
Design: John Hobson Nicholson (1911-1988).
Engraving: Questa.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 40 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 214.
- Michel No. 225.
- Scott No. 229.
- StampWorld No. 216.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 237.
- Unificato No. 224.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 224.

The Isle of Man (Manx: Ellan Vannin) is an island and self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The head of state, the King or Queen of the United Kingdom, holds the title Lord of Mann and is represented by a Lieutenant Governor. The United Kingdom is responsible for the  military defense. The total area of the island is 572 km² (221 sq mi), and its capital is Douglas.

Calf of Man (Manx: Yn Cholloo) is a 2.50-square-kilometer (618-acre) island, off the southwest coast of the Isle of Man, from which it is separated by a narrow stretch of water called the Calf Sound. Until 1939 the island was under private ownership by the Keig family, but was purchased by F. J. Dickens of Silverdale, Lancashire who then donated it to the National Trust to become a bird sanctuary.

The bird depicted on the stamp is an European Shag (Gulosus aristotelis).

SINGAPORE

SINGAPORE / SINGAPURA - 新加坡共和国

Old maps.
Map of the Straits around Singapore.
First map in a set of 4, issued on 13.03.1996.
No face value (Local mail).
Printing: Offset lithography.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 791.
- Scott No. 747.
- StampWorld No. 809.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 828

The island of Singapore is separated, by the north, from the Malay Peninsula by the Straits of Johor, and by the south, from Indonesia, by the Singapore Strait, although there are other straits between the smaller islands that make up the country. Ancient maritime maps and charts and pilot guides presented a network of maritime channels in the area that can be seen on the stamp.

TURKEY

TURKEY / TÜRKİYE (Ottoman Empire).

Definitive stamps.
Map of Dardanelles Strait.
Sixth stamp in a set of 8, issued on 11.10.1917.
Face value: 50 Ottoman para.
Printed: Typography.
(Printed in Vienna.)

Catalogs
- Michel No. 634.
- Scott No. 428.
- StampWorld No. 649.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 921.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 577.

The Dardanelles Strait (in Turkish, Çanakkale Boğazı), the Hellespont (Ἑλλήσποντος) of classical Greece, is a strait located in Turkey, between the Gallipoli peninsula (in Turkish, Gelibolu) and Anatolia. It connects the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara. It measures 61 km (37.90 mi) in length, between 1.6 and 6.5 km (99.4 and 4 mi) wide, and has an average depth of about 50 m (164 ft). Historically, it has had a strategic role since ancient times. In 1915, during the First World War, the Battle of Gallipoli or the Dardanelles took place there, during which British, French, Australian and New Zealand troops tried, without success, to wrest control of the strait from the Ottoman Empire.

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

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.

TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS

TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS.

Turks Island Passage map.
First stamp in a set of 4, issued on 02.02.1978.
Face value: 6 cents of United States dollar.

Catalogues
- Scott No. 338.
- StampWorld No. 350.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 489.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 391.

The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. The first inhabitants of the islands were the Arawakan-speaking Taíno people, who most likely crossed over from Hispaniola some time from AD 500 to 800. Together with Taíno who migrated from Cuba to the southern Bahamas around the same time, these people developed as the Lucayan. Some sources state that Christopher Columbus saw the islands on his voyage to the Americas in 1492. However other sources state that it is more likely that Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León was the first European in Turks and Caicos, in 1512. In 1799, both the Turks and the Caicos island groups were annexed by Britain as part of the Bahamas.

The Turks Islands are separated from the Caicos Islands by Turks Island Passage, which is more than 2,200 m (7,200 ft) deep.

CHILE

CHILE.

Commemoration of the expedition of Juan Ladrillero in 1557.
Map of the Strait of Magellan designed by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (ca. 1580).
Stamp issued on 07.08.1959 (together with other airmail value).
Face value: 50 Chilean pesos.
Printed by Casa de Moneda de Chile, Santiago.

Catalogues
- Scott No. 320.
- StampWorld No. 549.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 277.