Definitive stamps.
"Forest Waterfalls" (?).
Sixth stamp in a set of 7, issued in 1943.
Face value: 1.50 French franc.
Printing: Recess.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 203.
- Scott No. 173.
- StampWorld No. 203.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 183.
"Forest Waterfalls" is a name that replaces the true name of the waterfall, which is not known. Could it be the La Soumba waterfall, near Dubreka, north Conakry? Information is missing.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 867.
- Scott No. 977.
- StampWorld No. 867.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1084.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 831.
The Commonwealth of Nations, generally known simply as the Commonwealth, is a political association of 54 member states, nearly all of which used to be territories of the British Empire. The chief institutions of the organisation are the Commonwealth Secretariat, which focuses on intergovernmental aspects, and the Commonwealth Foundation, which focuses on non-governmental relations between member states. It was originally created as the British Commonwealth of Nations through the Balfour Declaration at the 1926 Imperial Conference, and formalised by the United Kingdom through the Statute of Westminster in 1931. The current Commonwealth of Nations was formally constituted by the London Declaration in 1949, which modernised the community and established the member states as "free and equal". Its Headquarters are in London. The Head of the Commonwealth is currently Queen Elizabeth II; the 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting appointed Charles, Prince of Wales to be her designated successor of her, although the position is not hereditary.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 1809.
- Scott No. 1688.
- StampWorld No. 1809.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1802.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1625.
Chudnite Skali (Чудните Скали, “Wonderful Rocks”) is a collection of ten curious limestone rock formations, shaped by the erosion of wind and water, the highest of which reaches 50 m (164 ft). They are located on the banks of the Tsonevo Reservoir, formed by the Luda Kamchia River, about 4 km (2.5 mi) from Asparuhovo, in the Varna province of eastern Bulgaria. A road (visible on the stamp) runs through them through three tunnels. The place was declared a natural phenomenon by a decree of February 17, 1949.
Dams in Jordan. Ziqlab Dam.
Last stamp in a set of 3, issued on 07.12.1976.
Face value: 100 Jordanian fils.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 34 x 26 mm.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 1066.
- Scott No. 998.
- StampWorld No. 1084.
- Stanley Gibbons No.1205.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 940.
Landscapes.
Pierce Island, Bay of Islands.
Last stamp in a set of 6, issued on 01.05.1996.
Face value: 40 cents of New Zeland dollar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 25 x 30 mm.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 1522IBA,
- Scott No. 1359.
- StampWorld No. 1565.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1985.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1466.
Piercy
Island, also known as "The Hole In The Rock" (in Māori-language, Motu
Kōkako), is located in the Bay of Islands, off the
north coast of the North Island. The 18 m (60 ft) hole at sea level was created
over centuries by wind and waves. The island is Māori freehold land, which is
administered by the Motu
Kōkako Ahu Whenua Trust for the benefit of the descendants of the
traditional owners. The island is of great cultural significance to the Ngāpuhi tribe, and was
historically associated with a range of sacred customary activities.
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Thanks to Kazimierz R. Leszczyński for his contribution (http://leszkarozdub.blogspot.com).
Fifth South Pacific Conference. Pago Pago 1962.
Map of South Pacific islands.
Third stamp in a set of 3, issued on 09.07.1962.
Face value: 2'6 Australian shilling.
Design: Pamela M. Prescott.
Printed by Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 45.
- Scott No. 169.
- Seven Seas Stamps No. 41
- StampWorld No. 45.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 38.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 49.
The Fifth South Pacific Conference was held in Pago Pago, American Samoa, in July 1962. It was organized by the South Pacific Commission (?), founded in Nouméa (New Caledonia) in 1947. [Incomplete and not verified information. Sorry!]
International Year of the Child.
Stylized map of Burma with IYC emblem.
Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 01.12.1979.
Face value: 50 Burman pya.
Printing: Photogravure.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 275.
- Scott No. 274.
- StampWorld No. 275.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 285.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 185B.
UNESCO proclaimed 1979 as the International Year of the Child. The proclamation was signed on January 1, 1979 by United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim. A follow-up to the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the proclamation was intended to draw attention to problems that affected children throughout the world, including malnutrition and lack of access to education. Many of these efforts resulted in the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.
Definitive stamps.
Roseau city (and Morne Trois Pitons mountain).
Stamp issued in 1909.
Face value: 3 pence.
Printing: Typography.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 45.
- Scott No. 40.
- StampWorld No. 48.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 51.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 48.
Roseau
(in Dominican Creole, Wozeau, pronounced Rozô), located in the
southwest of the island, on the shores of the Caribbean Sea, is the capital and
larged city of Dominica. Its population, in 2011, was 14,725 inhabitants.
The 1,387 m (4,550 ft) Morne Trois Pitons, of volcanic origin, is the second highest mountain in Dominica. It is located in the Morne Trois Pitons National Park, with an area of 68.57 km² (26.47 sq mi). Established in July 1975, it became a World Heritage Site in 1997. On the stamp, it is the mountain in the background.
2nd anniversary of the eruption of the Heimaey volcano.
First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 23.01.1975.
Face value: 20 Icelandic krónor.
Photo: Sigurgeir Jónasson.
Design and
Printing: Helio Courvoisier.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 1,500,000 copies.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 500.
- Scott No. 476.
- StampWorld No. 501.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 531.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 453.
The Elfeld volcano, about 200 m (660 ft) high, on the island of Heimaey, in southern Iceland, erupted on January 23, 1973 causing fissures up to 1600 meters (5,200 ft) long. The lava covered and destroyed half the town of Heimaey and part of its bay, forcing most of the island's 5000 inhabitants to be dislodged by fishing boats. The eruption lasted until July 3, increasing the surface of the island from 11.2 km2 (4.3 sq mi) to 13.44 km2 (5.19 sq mi). There was only one fatality.
A chart of Thomas Boutflower (1768).
Fourth stamp in a set of 6, issued on 22.05.1981.
Face value: 15 pence.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Printed by
Catalogues
- Michel No. 323.
- Scott No. 321.
- StampWorld No. 323.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 399.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 321.
The Falkland Islands (claimed by Argentina as Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about 483 km (300 mi) east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about 1,210 km (752 mi) from the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. The archipelago's area is 12,000 km2 (4,700 sq mi). The islands were discovered by Richard Hawkins (from whom they received their first name) in 1594. They are under British rule since January 3, 1833.
Thomas Boutflower (Newcastle, 1732 - Ottery St Mary, Devon, 1775) was an English surveyor and carpenter. In August 1765 he was appointed purser in the sloop Carcass, which formed part of the flotilla commanded by Captain John McBride which sailed to establish a settlement in the Falklands. It arrived at Port Egmont in January 1766. While in the Falklands prepared a map (A Draught of Falklands Islands) showing West Falkland described as the "Brittish Island" and East as "French Island", the latter very much smaller than the former. His lack of information show in the distorted coastal outlines beyond the northern coast of West Falkland and in the archaic orientation, placing south at the top. (Information taken from the Dictionary of Falklands Biography.)
500th
Anniversary of Discovery of Cape of Good Hope by Bartolomeu Dias.
Africa, fragment of the map of Henricus Martellus (1491).
Last stamp in a set of 4, issued on 03.02.1988.
Face value: 50 cents of South African rand.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 38 x 29 mm.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 724.
- Scott No. 709.
- South African No. 646.
- StampWorld No. 763.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 634.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 641.
The
Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias (Algarve, ca. 1450 - at sea, May 29, 1500)
was the first European explorer to round the southern tip of Africa in early
1488, reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic. His expedition, made up of
two caravels (São Cristóvão and São Pantaleão) and a supply ship, left Lisbon
in late July or early August 1487, and in late December reached a place near
the mouth of the Orange River. After several incidents, sailing out to sea, on
February 3, 1488 he reached today’s Mossel Bay, and On March 12, continuing
east, the expedition reached its furthest point in the Indian Ocean, the mouth
of the Bushman River, but the crew refused to go any further. On their return
to Portugal they discovered Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of the
continent, and Cape das Tormentas, which the Portuguese king, John II, named Cabo
da Boa Esperança (Cape of Good Hope) because it was the place where opened the
rout to reach to India. Bartolomé Dias died on May 29, 1500 on a subsequent
voyage when the ship in which he was sailing was sunk near the Cape in the
middle of a storm.
Henricus Martellus Germanus (Nuremberg? Ca. 1440 - ?) was a German geographer and cartographer, named Heinrich Hammer, who lived and worked in Florence from 1480 to 1496. Between 1489 and 1491 he produced at least one map of the world showing novel adaptations of the model existing Ptolemaic, opening a passage to southern Africa and creating a huge new peninsula east of the Golden Chersonese (Malaysia). It is possibly based on maps created around 1485 in Lisbon by Bartholomew Columbus.
150th anniversary of tourism in Croatia.
Plitvice Lakes National Park (Nacionalni park Plitvička jezera).
First stamp in a set of 7, issued in block on 15.06.1994.
Face value: 0.80 Croatian kuna.
Design by Miroslav Šutej (1936-2005) and Vilko Žiljak (b. 1946).
Printing: Offset lithography.
Printed by Zrinyi d.d., Čarlovec.
Print: 200,000 copies.
Size: 35.5 x 35.5 mm.
Catalogues
- AFA No. 298.
- Michel No. 279.
- Scott No. 196.
- StampWorld No. 277.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 280.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 233.
Plitvice Lakes National Park (in Croatian: Nacionalni park Plitvička jezera, colloquially Plitvice), founded on April 8, 1949, is one of the oldest and largest national parks in Croatia. In 1979 it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage register. It is located in the mountainous karst area of central Croatia, at the border to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The protected area extends over 296.85 km2 (11461.44 sq mi). The park is characterized by its lakes and waterfalls: sixteen lakes can be seen from the surface. These lakes are a result of the confluence of several small rivers and subterranean karst rivers. The difference in altitude within the park area ranges from 912 m (2,992 ft) to 367 m (1,204 ft). The highest summit is Seliški vrh, at 1,279 m (4,196 ft).
Catalogues
- AFA No. 216.
- Michel No. 216.
- Scott No. 3090.
- StampWorld No. 216.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 236.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 211.
Podyjí National Park (in Czech: Národní park Podyjí), formally declared on July 1, 1991, is in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Adjacent to Austria's Thayatal National Park on the border, together they are referred to as the Inter-National park. It protects near-natural forests along the deep Dyje River valley. It has an area of 63 km2 (24 sq mi) and buffer zone of 29 km2 (11 sq mi). The park lies in an elevation range of 534–214 m (1,752–702 ft).
World Heritage Sites.
Nuorilang Falls (诺日朗瀑布), in Jiuzhaigou National Park (九寨沟).
Last stamp in a set of 4, issued on 26.03.1998.
Face value: 150 Chinese renminbi fēn.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 2900.
- Scott No. 2853.
- StampWorld No. 2955.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 4279.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 3570.
Jiuzhaigou
or Valley of the Nine Villages (九寨沟 in Chinese; གཟི་ རྩ་
སྡེ་ དགུ
in Tibetan) is a nature reserve and national park located in Nanping cantón (Sichuan
province). It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1992 and a World
Biosphere Reserve in 1997. It is part of the Min Mountains and is famous for
its waterfalls, lakes and snow-capped peaks. Its elevation varies between 2,000
and 4,500 meters. The Nuorilang Waterfall (诺 日 朗 瀑布), one of the largest in China, is
located in the center of the valley, at an altitude of 2,365 m (7,759 ft). Its
height is 20 m (66 ft) and its width is 270 m (886 ft). An observation deck
built on the opposite side offers a full view of the waterfall.
Westhoek Nature Reserve.
Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 11.03.1967.
Face value: 1 Belgian franc.
Design: Jean van Noten (1903-1982).
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 4,500,000 copies.
Size: 41 x 28 mm.
Catalogues
- AFA No. 1487.
- COB No. 1409.
- Michel No. 1469.
- Scott No. 684.
- StampWorld No. 1475.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2010.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1409.
Westhoek Nature Reserve is a cross-border territory between the Belgian province of West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen) and the French departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais, on the shores of the North Sea. The 340-hectare Belgian reserve was created in 1957 and is the oldest in the country; the French, part of which is known as Dunes du Perroquet, has an area of 225 ha. It is, as a whole, an area of wooded ridges, polders and dunes, in which Mont Cassel (Kasselberg, in Dutch) stands out, 176 m (577 ft) high, which is located in the French part. The stamp reproduces a dune landscape in the coastal area.
Yellow-billed
Stork (Mycteria ibis) on Édéa Dam and hydroelectric power station,
on the Sanaga River.
Airmail stamp issued on 18.11.1953.
Face value: 15 French Cameroon francs.
Printing: Recess.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 303.
- Scott No. C31.
- StampWorld No. 303.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 263.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 43.
The Édéa Power Station is a hydroelectric power plant of the Sanaga River in the town of Édéa, in Cameroon's Littoral Region. It has a power generating capacity of 264 megawatts (354,000 hp). Its construction began in 1950 and ended in fall 1953. The official inauguration took place on February 5, 1954. Due to the loss of power at the plant, a new downstream spillway was built in 2009.
European Danube Commission.
Danube river basin map, river boats and flags. Transcotinental waterway of Europe.
Minisheet issued on 28.12.1977.
Face value: 2 Hungarian forint x 11 stamps.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 271,000 copies.
Size: 130 x 93 mm.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 3248-3258.
- Scott No. 2514
- StampWorld No. 3271-3281 (H 142).
- Stanley Gibbons No. MS 3160.
- Yvert et Tellier No. B 134.
The European Danube Commission, made up of seven countries bordering the river, was established in Belgrade by the Danube River Conference, in 1948. It replaced previous commissions: the first European Danube Commission was established by the Treaty of Paris in 1856, which ended the Crimean War. Currently (2020) it has eleven member states (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine) and others with observer status (Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Greece, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia and Turkey). It is based in Budapest and its official languages are French, German and Russian. The objective of the Commission is to jointly regulate maritime transport on the Danube.
Definitive stamps.
Bermuda island Map and effigy of Queen Elizabeth II.
Sixth stamp in a set of 18, issued on 09.11.1953.
Face value: 3 Bermudian pence.
Printing: Recess.
Size: 40 x 24 mm.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 135.
- Scott No. 148.
- StampWorld No. 138.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 140.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 138.
Bermuda is an archipelago in the North Atlantic made up of 181 islands, with a total area of 53.2 km2 (20.5 sq mi) and an estimated population of 72,000 people. It is named after the Spanish navigator Juan de Bermúdez, who discovered the islands, which had no indigenous population, in 1505. Bermuda became a British crown colony in 1609 and an autonomous colony in 1620, when the first Parliament. Some years later, African slaves were brought there. At the beginning of the 18th century, a lucrative salt trade began on the islands, which became the basis of the local economy. Bermuda's history has been very tumultuous from the 18th century to the mid-20th century, when tourism was promoted and the first regular flights with the United States were established by seaplanes. In the 1970s there were civil unrest and the first demands for independence, which were rejected in a referendum held in 1995. Bermuda is currently an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, and the executive power is in the hands of the British Crown. The link with the United States, however, is very close.
Independence of Cyprus.
Map of Cyprus island.
Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 16.08.1960.
Face value: 105 kuruş.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 1766.
- Scott No. 1485.
- StampWorld No. 1801.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1908.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1559.
On August 16, 1960, Cyprus gained independence following the London-Zurich Agreement between the United Kingdom, Greece, and Turkey. On July 20, 1974, five days after the Greek military junta under Dimitrios Ioannides carried out a coup in Cyprus to unite the island with Greece, the Turkish army invaded the island, citing the right to intervene to restore the constitutional order of the 1960 Guarantee Treaty. The island was divided into two sectors, and on November 15, 1983, the Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktaş, proclaimed the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti), establishing a State of fact that is only recognized by Turkey.
International
Automobile Races of South America.
Map of South America.
Airmail. Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 23.10.1948.
Face value: 10 bolivianos.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Printed by Edit. "Don Bosco", La Paz.
Print: 400,000 copies.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 431.
- Scott No. C124.
- StampWorld No. 434.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 484.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 101.
The Grand Prix of South America for Road Tourism (Gran Premio de la América del Sur del Turismo Carretera), also known as La Buenos Aires-Caracas, was an international motorsports competition organized by the Argentine Automobile Club in 1948. It was divided into 14 stages and, starting from Buenos Aires on October 20 and ending in Caracas on November 8, it toured six countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. The victory went to the Argentine driver Domingo Marimón, with a Chevrolet car. The distance traveled was 9,576 km (5,950 mi).
