TRISTAN DA CUNHA

TRISTAN DA CUNHA.

Plan of Capt. Demhan's detail (1853).
Last stamp in a set of 3, issued on 22.05.1981.
Face value: 21 British pence.
Printing: Offset lithography.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 302.
- Scott No. 292.
- StampWorld No. 301.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 306.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 290.

Vice Admiral Henry Mangles Denham (August 28, 1800 - July 3, 1887) was a Royal Navy officer. On July 30, 1845, he was made commander of HMS Avon, surveying the west coast of Africa. Between 1864 and 1866, he served as Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Station. Specialized in hydrographic work, he drew several maps, including that of the island of Tristan da Cunha: the stamp shows a fragment corresponding to the Settlement, founded in 1816 in the northwest of the island and called, in 1867, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas (regarded as the most remote permanent settlement on Earth).

TRISTAN DA CUNHA

TRISTAN DA CUNHA.

Ancient map of A. Dalrymple (1781).
Second stamp in a set of 3, issued on 22.05.1981.
Face value: 14 Saint Helena pence.
Printing: Offset lithography.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 301.
- Scott No. 291.
- StampWorld No. 300.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 305.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 289.

Tristan da Cunha is a group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately 2,787 km (1,732 mi) off the coast of South Africa, 2,437 km (1,514 mi) from Saint Helena and 4,002 km (2,487 mi) off the coast of the Falkland Islands. Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory. It consists of the Tristan da Cunha Island, with a diameter of roughly 11 km (6.8 mi) and an area of 98 km2 (38 sq mi); the wildlife reserves of Gough Island and Inaccessible Island; and the smaller Nightingale Islands. In October 2018 the main island haved 250 permanent inhabitants. The other islands are uninhabited, except for the South African personnel of a weather station on Gough Island. The islands were first sighted in 1506 by Portuguese explorer Tristão da Cunha. On August 14, 1816, the United Kingdom annexed the islands, making them a dependency of the Cape Colony in South Africa.

The first full survey of the archipelago was made by crew of the French corvette Heure du Berger in September 1767: the stamp shows its route around the island of Tristan da Cunha, on a map drawn on March 17, 1781 by the British geographer Alexander Dalrymple, one of the first explorers of the place.

TRISTAN DA CUNHA

TRISTAN DA CUNHA.

Tristan da Cunha islands in an ancient chart made by Johannes van Keulen (1700).
Minisheet issued on 22.05.1981.
Face value: 35 Saint Helena pence.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 111 x 70 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. BL 13.
- Scott No. 293.
- StampWorld No. 302.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MS 307.
- Yvert et Tellier No. BF 13.

Tristan da Cunha is a group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately 2,787 km (1,732 mi) off the coast of South Africa, 2,437 km (1,514 mi) from Saint Helena and 4,002 km (2,487 mi) off the coast of the Falkland Islands. Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory. It consists of the Tristan da Cunha Island, with a diameter of roughly 11 km (6.8 mi) and an area of 98 km² (38 sq mi); the wildlife reserves of Gough Island and Inaccessible Island; and the smaller Nightingale Islands. In October 2018 the main island haved 250 permanent inhabitants. The other islands are uninhabited, except for the South African personnel of a weather station on Gough Island. The islands were first sighted in 1506 by Portuguese explorer Tristão da Cunha. On August 14, 1816, the United Kingdom annexed the islands, making them a dependency of the Cape Colony in South Africa.

Johannes van Keulen (born 1654 in Deventer - dead 1715 in Amsterdam) was a 17th-century Dutch cartographer. He published the influential nautical atlas the Zee-Atlas and the guide for pilots Zee-Fakkel. In 1678 he established himself in Amsterdam and in 1680 he obtained a patent from the States of Holland and West Friesland allowing him to print and publish maritime atlases and shipping guides.