AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

Ramsar Wetlands.
Cobourg Peninsula.
First stamp in a set of 4, issued on 22.02.2021.
Face value: 20 cents of Australia dollar.
Design: Sonia Young.
Printed by Ego Print.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 37.5 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 5271.
- Scott No. 5257.
- StampWorld No. 3979.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 5410.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 5046.

The Cobourg Peninsula is located 350 km (217 mi) east of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is deeply indented with coves and bays, covers a land area of about 2,100 km² (811 sq mi), and is virtually uninhabited with a population ranging from about 20 to 30 in five family outstations, but without any notable settlement or village. In the north is the Arafura Sea, and in the south the Van Diemen Gulf. The highest elevation is Mount Roe in the south with an altitude of 160 m (525 ft). All of Cobourg Peninsula is part of Garig Gunak Barlu National Park, which also encompasses a few nearshore islands. Cobourg Peninsula was Australia’s and the world’s first Wetland of International Importance. The Site covers an area of approximately 220,000 hectares and is composed of terrestrial, riverine, permanent freshwater and brackish and intertidal and coastal/marine ecosystems. It supports over 800 plant species, 64 species of coral, 406 species of marine invertebrate from the coral reef or the intertidal zone, 35 mammals, 71 reptiles, 19 frogs and 236 bird species.

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AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

Ramsar Wetlands.
Blue Lake.
Third stamp in a set of 4, issued on 22.02.2021.
Face value: 3.40 Australian dollars.
Design: Sonia Young.
Printed by Ego Print.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 37.5 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 5273.
- Scott No. 5259.
- StampWorld No. 3981.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 5412.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 5048.

The Blue Lake is located in the Kosciuszko National Park alpine area of New South Wales. It was recognised as a wetland of international importance on March 17, 1996 when a 320-hectare (790-acre) area, comprising the lake and its surrounds, including nearby Hedley Tarn, was designated Ramsar Site 800 under the Ramsar Convention on wetlands. The lake lies within the Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves, at an altitude of 1,890 m (6,200 ft) above mean sea level, in a glacial landscape. It is 16 hectares (40 acres) in area and 28 m (92 ft) deep.

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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.

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

National Parks.
Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park.
Second stamp in a set of 7, issued on 06.04.1979.
Face value: 20 cents of Australian dollar.
Design: Max Robinson (1934-2018).
Printed by Asher and Co., Melbourne.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 38 x 27 mm.

Catalogs
- Brusden-White No. 838.
- Michel No. 674.
- Scott No. 701.
- Seven Seas Stamps No. 726.
- StampWorld No. 673.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 709.
- Unificato No. 714.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 656.

Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia. The park is home to both Uluṟu / Ayers Rock and Kata Tjuṯa / Mount Olga. It covers 1,326 km² (512 sq mi). The location is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for natural and cultural landscape. Uluṟu / Ayers Rock is recognised as "Australia's most natural icon" and has become a focal point for Australia and the world's acknowledgement of Australian indigenous culture. Aṉangu are the traditional Aboriginal owners of the Park. They believe that their culture was created at the beginning of time by ancestral beings. The domed rock formations are composed of conglomerate, a sedimentary rock consisting of cobbles and boulders of varying rock types including granite and basalt, cemented by a matrix of sandstone. The crevasses are due to erosion. The Ayers Rock National Park was recognised in 1950.

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

National Parks.
Girraween National Park, Queensland.
Sixth 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 Ashier & Co., Melbourne.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 27 x 38 mm.

Catalogs
- Brusden-White No. 842.
- Michel No. 678.
- Scott No. 705.
- Seven Seas Stamps No. 731.
- StampWorld No. 677.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 713.
- Unificato No. 718.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 660.

Girraween National Park is an area of the Granite Belt in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, reserved as a national park established on October 21, 1977. The área of the park is 117 km² (45.2 sq mi). The southern boundary of the park is the state border between Queensland and New South Wales. Girraween is an Aboriginal word meaning "place of flowers" and the best time to see the local flora is late in July when the Golden Wattle blooms. The park has abundant fauna, including some that are rarely seen elsewhere in Queensland, such as the common wombat, spotted quoll, lyrebird and the turquoise parrot. The area is the only place where the Wallangarra whitegums grow.

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

Navigators.
William Dampier (1651-1715) and ship "Roebuck".
Stamp issued on 25.11.1964.
Face value: 5 Australian shilling.
Design: Walter Jardine (1884-1970).
Engraving: P. E. Morriss.
Printing: Recess.
Print: 4,789,317 copies.
Size: 24 x 28 mm.

Catalogs
- Brusden-White No.405.
- Michel No. 332.
- Scott No. 375.
- Seven Seas No. 387.
- StampWorld No. 331.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 356.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 300.

William Dampier (1651 - 1715) was an English explorer, pirate, privateer, navigator, and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has also been described as Australia's first natural historian. The publication of the book A New Voyage Round the World (1697) was a popular sensation, creating interest at the Admiralty. In 1699, Dampier was given command of the 26-gun warship HMS Roebuck, with the mission was to explore the east coast of New Holland, the name given by the Dutch to what is now Australia.

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

Australia Day 1981.
Flag in the form of a map.
Stamp issued on 21.01.1981.
Face value: 22 cents of Australian dollar.
Design: Bruce Weatherhead (1939-2011).
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 49,196,000 copies.
Size: 37.5 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- Brusden-White No. 887. 
- Michel No. 740.
- Scott No. 771.
- Seven Seas Stamps No. 789.
- StampWorld No. 739.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 765.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 726.

Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove and raising of the Union Flag by Arthur Phillip following days of exploration of Port Jackson in New South Wales.

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

Panorama of Australia.
The Pinnacles Desert.
First stamp in a set of 4, issued on 17.10.1988.
Face value: 39 cents of Australian dollar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 35 x 35 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1131.
- Scott No. 1098.
- Seven Seas Stamps No. 1174.
- StampWorld No. 1133.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1161.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1099.

The Pinnacles are limestone formations within Nambung National Park, near the town of Cervantes, Western Australia. The area contains thousands of weathered limestone pillars. Some of the tallest pinnacles reach heights of up to 3.5 m (11.48 ft) above the yellow sand base. The different types of formations include ones which are much taller than they are wide and resemble columns (suggesting the name of Pinnacles) while others are only a meter or so in height and width resembling short tombstones. A cross-bedding structure can be observed in many pinnacles where the angle of deposited sand changed suddenly due to changes in prevailing winds during formation of the limestone beds. The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from seashells in an earlier era that was rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime-rich sands that were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

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TASMANIA

 

TASMANIA.

Landscapes.
Mount Wellington.
Second stamp in a set of 8, issued on 13.12.1899.
Face value: 1 Australian penny.
Printing: Recess.
Size: 28 x 36 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 62.
- Scott No. 87.
- StampWorld No. 55.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 230.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 60.

Mount Wellington (in Palawa kani, Kunanyi) is a mountain in the southeastern coastal region of Tasmania. It is the summit of the Wellington Range, standing 1,271 m (4,170 ft) above sea level, and it is often covered in snow, sometimes even in summer. It is located within the Wellington Park preserve, just 22 km (14 miles) from the city of Hobart. No Europeans visited Tasmania until the late 18th century, when the French Marion du Fresne (1772) and the English Tobias Furneaux (1773) arrived in the south of the island (then known as Van Diemens Land). In 1793, Commodore John Hayes came to the Derwent River and named the mountain Skiddaw, although this name never gained popularity. In February 1836, Charles Darwin visited the city of Hobart and climbed Mount Wellington. In 1895 Clement Lindley Wragge installed the first weather station on the mountain.

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AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

Island Jewels.
Fraser Island, Queensland.
Fourth stamp in a set of 6, issued on 05.03.2007.
Face value: 1.95 Australian dollars.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 37 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 2786.
- Scott No. 2630.
- Seven Seas Stamps No. 2439.
- StampWorld No. 2599.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2772.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 2668.

Fraser Island (in Batjala language, K'gari, which means "Paradise") is located along the southeastern coast in the Wide Bay-Burnett region, Queensland. Its area is 250 km² (160 sq mi), its length is 123 km (76 mi) and its maximum width is 22 km (14 mi). In 2016 its stable population was 182 people. The island is made up of sand that has accumulated over some 750,000 years in a volcanic bedrock. It has more than 200 small lakes, and its eastern part is crossed by the Coongul Creek (visible on the stamp). Unlike many sand dunes, vegetal life is abundant due to the natural mycorrhizal fungi present in the sand, which release nutrients that can be absorbed by plants, especially eucalyptus, mangroves and marine heaths; there is also a remarkable zoological life, with more than 25 species of mammals, 74 of reptiles and more than 350 of birds. The island is also characterized by peat swamps and sand dunes. It was inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1992. The island's name comes from Eliza Fraser, a survivor of a shipwreck taken in 1836 in by the Butchulla originally inhabitants.

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.

Tourism.
Mount Buffalo National Park.
Fourth stamp in a set of 6, issued on 25.08.1976.
Face value: 50 cents of Australian dollar.
Design: Otto Borchert.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 25 x 38 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 613.
- Scott No. 644.
- Seven Seas Stamps No. 668.
- StampWorld No. 612.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 630.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 598.

The Mount Buffalo National Park, established in November 4, 1898, is a mountain plateau located in the state of Victoria, in the Australian Alps, approximately 350 km (220 mi) northeast of Melbourne. Its area is 310 km² (119.7 sq mi) and the highest point of Mount Buffalo is a granitic formation at 1,723 m (5,653 ft) above sea level. Explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell named the mountain in 1824 because of its supposed resemblance to a reclining buffalo. In the park are the Owens and Buckland rivers and the Qahtani Reservoir, as well as the largest erratic rock in the world, known as Leviathan, which measures 33 x 21 x 12 m. On November 7, 2008, the park was inscribed on the Australian National Heritage List.

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

Panoramas of Australia stamps.
Gariwerd - Grampians National Park (Victoria).
Second stamp in a set of 4, issued on 23.08.2002.
Face value: 1.65 Australian dollar.
Printing: Offset litography.
Size: 18.5 x 43 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 2153.
- Scott No. 2078.
- Seven Seas Stamps No. 1989.
- StampWorld No. 2146.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2220.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 2048.

The Grampians National Park (Gariwerd in the language of the Jadwatjali aborigines) is located in the Grampians region, in the state of Victoria. Its area is 1,672.19 km² (645.6 sq mi). It was established on July 1, 1984 and declared a National Heritage Site on December 15, 2006 for being one of the richest Aboriginal rock art sites in Southeastern Australia and the entire country. The Grampian Mountains feature an astonishing series of sandstone mountain ranges of geological interest, and are a popular rock climbing destination. The highest peak is Mount William at 1,167 m (3,829 ft). Numerous waterfalls, such as the MacKenzie Falls, are located in the park.

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.

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

Wittenoom Gorge (Western Australia).
Third stamp in a set of 6, issued on 25.08.1976.
Face value: 35 cents of Australian dollar.
Design: Otto Berchert.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 25 x 38 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 612.
- Scott No. 643.
- StampWorld No. 611.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 629.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 597.

Wittenoom Gorge is located 1,420 km (880 mi) north-north-east of Perth in the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The area around Wittenoom was mainly pastoral until the 1930s when the mining of blue asbestos began there. A business town was built in 1947, and in the 1950s it was the largest town in the Pilbara. During the 1950s and early 1960s, Wittenoom was the only Australian supplier of blue asbestos. The mine was closed in 1966 due to lack of profitability and growing health problems resulting from asbestos mining in the area. In December 2006, the Government of Western Australia announced that the city's official status would be removed, and in June 2007 it was announced that the city had been officially closed and its name removed from official maps and road signs. Roads leading to contaminated areas were closed.

NORFOLK ISLAND

NORFOLK ISLAND.

125th anniversary of the annexation of Norfolk to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
Simplied maps of the Norfolk and Tasmania islands.
Set of 2 stamps issued on 29.09.1969.
Face values: 2 and 30 cents of Australian dollar.
Stamping: Rotogravure.

Catalogues
- Michel Nos. 102-103.
- Scott Nos. 123-124.
- StampWorld Nos. 102-103.
- Yvert et Tellier Nos. 102-103.

Norfolk Island is an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia. Together with the neighbouring Phillip Island and Nepean Island, the three islands collectively form the Territory of Norfolk.

The first known settlers in Norfolk Island were East Polynesians but they had already departed when Great Britain settled it as part of its 1788 settlement of Australia. The island served as a convict penal settlement from 6 March 1788 until 5 May 1855, except for an 11-year hiatus between 15 February 1814 and 6 June 1825, when it lay abandoned. On 29 September 1844 the administration of the island was transferred from the Colony of New South Wales to the Colony of Van Diemen's Land (the current Tasmania). On 8 June 1856, permanent civilian residence on the island began when descendents of the Bounty mutineers were relocated from Pitcairn Island. On 30 March 1914 the United Kingdom handed Norfolk Island over to Australia to administer as an external territory, but as a distinct and separate settlement.

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions.
Stylized map of Antarctica and the southern seas of the Earth.
Stamp issued on 17.11.1954.
Face value: 3.1/2 pence.
Design: Frank D. Manley.
Engraving: G. Lissenden.
Print: 64,635,960 copies.
Size: 30 x 29 mm.

Catalogues
- Scott No. 276.
- StampWorld No. 247.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 279.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 214.

The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program (AAp) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). The name ANARE fell out of official use in the early 2000s. However current and former Australian Antarctic expeditioners continue to use the term informally as a means of identification with the long and continuous history of Australian expeditions to Antarctica. Australia has had a long involvement in south polar regions since as early as Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition in 1911. Further Australian exploration of the Antarctic continent was conducted during the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE), which was conducted over the years 1929-1931. The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions were established in 1947 with expeditions to Macquarie Island and Heard Island. In 1948 the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) was established to administer the expedition program.

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

Cradle Mountain, on the Central Hightands of Tasmania island (1545 m / 5,069 ft).
Third stamp in a set of 3, issued on 25.09.2012.
Face value: 4.50 Australian dollars.
Design: Janet Boschen.
Printed by McKellar Renown Press, Port Melbourne (Victoria).
Printed: Offset and lithography.
Size: 26 x 37,5 mm.  

Catalogues.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 3850.