Island Stamps

Apostle Islands, airmail stamp designed and engraved by Georges Bétemps, and issued for us in French Southern and Antarctic Territories on January 3, 1983, Scott No. C72.

- nethryk

Les Îles Sanguinaires, Ajaccio, Corsica, designed and engraved by Claude Durrens, and issued by France on June 1, 1996, Scott No. 2527, Y&T No. 3019, plus a photo of this scenic vista.

- nethryk

The amazing Galapagos Islands of Ecuador :



Charles Darwin was here and the study of its fauna helped in the development of his Theory of the Evolution

St. George's Cay, engraved and printed by Waterlow & Sons, Ltd., and issued for use in British Honduras on January 10, 1949 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of St. George's Caye, in which an invading Spanish force from Mexico was defeated by a small force of resident woodcutters called Baymen, Scott No. 132.

- nethryk

Here are images of the six stamps in a set depicting views of islands comprising the Netherlands Antilles, plus a portrait of Queen Wilhelmina, engraved and printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., and issued for use in Netherlands Antilles on February 1, 1943, Scott Nos. 164-69.

- nethryk

Bonaire


St. Eustatius


Saba


St. Maarten


Aruba


Curaçao

One for the topic.

Coral reef on Minami Island, printed by photogravure, and issued by Japan on June 26, 1973 as one of a set of two stamps publicizing Ogasawara National Park, Scott No. 1142.

- nethryk

"Islander," designed and engraved by Robert Cami, and issued for use in Wallis and Futuna on June 11, 1957, Scott No. 151.

- nethryk

CHILE - 2001
Easter Island and some sculptures called Moai

Easter Island - Isla de Pascua - Rapa Nui


.................................................FDC fom Easter Island

Easter Island (Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. It got the name "Easter Island" from the first European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday (5.4.1722). It is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai but also for still undepichered script called rongorongo. The cover is written all over with this script.

jorgesurcl: Rapa Nui is very interesting island, one of most remote inhabited part of the world.

iorana korua !...Hi all ! in Rapa Nui's language.

primoz - Yes it is a very remote place. It is approximately 3.700 kms off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean.

Te Pito o te Henua means "the navel of the world" and is the name (in Rapa Nui's language) that give its inhabitants, mostly of Polynesian origin.



Although they try to keep their traditions alive, today the island has become a tourist destination.
The island is Chilean territory since 1888.

Easter Island - Isla de Pascua - Rapa Nui



Century of annexion the Easter Island by Chile on 9 September 1888.

Around small sheet are glyphs of rongorongo an undepichered script from island.

jorgesurcl - who is capitan on stamp? There is a lot material of Island, you could even open thread.

primoz- He is the commander Policarpo Toro of the Chilean Navy who was in the island in 1888 and representing the government signed an agreement with the local chief by which the annexion was established

Easter Island - Isla de Pascua - Rapa Nui



The image commander Policarpo Toro and island.
(jorgesurcl: thanks, I found one stamp of Policarpo)



Some of about 1000 carvings of moai, human-faced statues on island.
The bigest moai are 12 meters tall and 75 tons in weight.

Easter Island - Isla de Pascua - Rapa Nui



Fauna and flora fauna of Easter Island:
The Common Diuca Finch (Diuca diuca) is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
Sophora toromiro is a species of flowering tree that is endemic to Easter Island.

+ some more of about 1000 carvings of moai, human-faced statues on island.