MAURITIUS

MAURITIUS.

Environmental protection.
Rivière du Poste Estuary.
Fourth stamp in a set of 5, issued on 04.10.1991.
Face value: 5 Mauritian rupees.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 42 x 29 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 728I.
- Scott No. 694.
- StampWorld No. 747.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 814A.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 763.

The Rivière du Poste Estuary is located in the south of the island of Mauritius, in the Grand Port District, near L’Escalier village. The Rivière du Poste is the second largest river in the country, and its mouth in the Indian Ocean is a protected natural place, which cannot really be considered an estuary itself, but rather an arm of the sea that goes into the land.

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Thanks to Daniel Mathieu for his contribution (http://lettresdumonde.blogspot.com/)

MAURITIUS

MAURITIUS.

Environmental protection.
Le Morne Peninsula.
Third stamp in a set of 5, issued on 04.10.1991.
Face value: 2 Mauritian rupees.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 42 x 29 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 727.
- Scott No. 691.
- StampWorld No. 746.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 813.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 762.

Le Morne Brabant is a peninsula at the extreme southwestern tip of the Mauritius island. It is highlighted by an eponymous basaltic monolith with a summit 556 m (1,824 ft) above sea level. The summit covers an area of over 12 ha (30 acres). There are many caves and overhangs on the steep slopes. It is largely surrounded by a lagoon. The mountain is named after the ship of the Dutch East India Company Brabant, that ran aground there on December 29, 1783 on the cliffs. In 2008 the península was inscribed by UNESCO on the World Heritage List.

MAURITIUS

MAURITIUS.

Historical map of island of Mauritius by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, 1763.
Eight stamp in a set of 20, issued on 12.03.1978.
Face value: 70 cents.
Printed: Offset and lithography.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 443.
- StampWorld No. 462.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 536.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 456.

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (Paris, 1703 - Versailles, 1772) was a French geographer and cartographer. In 1721 he was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) at the French Hydrographic Office. He was a member of the Académie de Marine and the Royal Society of London. In 1741 he became the first Ingénieur de la Marine of the Deposit of Maps and Plans of the Navy (the French hydrographic office) and was appointed hydrographic officer to the King of France. During his more than fifty-year career, he produced a large number of seas maps from around the world, including a large map of the sea of France called Neptune François, the Maritime Atlas, the Française hidrografique and the Petit Atlas Maritime en 5 volumes, containing 580 finely detailed miniatures.

MAURITIUS

MAURITIUS.

Historical map of island of Mauritius by Johannes van Keulen, c. 1700.
Third stamp in a set of 20, issued on 12.03.1978.
Face value: 20 cents.
Printed: Offset and lithography.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 438I.
- StampWorld No. 457.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 531.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 451.

Johannes van Keulen (Deventer, 1654 - Amsterdam, 1715) was a Dutch cartographer. Established in Amsterdam, in 1680 he obtained a patent (protection against illegal copying) from the States of Holland and West Frisia that allowed him to print and publish books of maps and descriptions of itineraries, among which are a Zee-Atlas and the pilot guide Zee-Fakkel, used by helmsmen for safe navigation. Beginning in 1681, the Nieuwe Lichtende Zee-Fakkel, a five-volume illustrated atlas, appeared.