Island Stamps

Iceland
Islands
September 6, 2001
Grimsey is a small island, 40 kilometers off the north coast of the main island of Iceland and straddling the Arctic Circle.
Papey is an island near the east coast of Iceland in the municipality Djúpavogshreppur.

Costa Rica
Natural Wonders of Costa Rica
August 24, 2009
Cocos Island (Spanish: Isla del Coco) is an island in the Pacific Ocean, approximately 550 km off Costa Rica. It is designated as a National Park that does not allow inhabitants other than Costa Rican Park Rangers. Cocos Island is well known for its population of large marine mammals and unique ecological characters.

New Caledonia 2016 Tiga Island.

South Africa
World Heritage Sites
September 22, 2000
Robben Island is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 km west of the coast of Cape Town. The 5.07 square kilometers island is flat and only a few metres above sea level. To date, three of the former inmates of Robben Island have gone on to become President of South Africa: Nelson Mandela, Kgalema Motlanthe, and Jacob Zuma.

Norway
International Geophysical Year
July 1, 1957
Jan Mayen is a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean and a part of Norway. It is 373 square km in area and is partly covered by glaciers.

The private mail and parcel courier Easypost of Alicante, Spain issued these 3 stamps for use in Mallorca. One stamp shows a map of the island, while the other two feature Mallorca landscapes. The landscape stamps have a plastic finish, but take a cancel remarkably well.

Spain began allowing private mail couriers in 2011. The Easypost website advertises service "to the U.K., Europe, and worldwide."

Greek islands with bloody history




Island of Kasos, massacred by Turks and Egyptians in 1824. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasos



Battle of Crete, 1941. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crete

Traditional dresses of Greek islands

French Southern and Antarctic Territories
Whale Island
January 1, 2007
The Whale Island, named after its shape, is an island of the Kerguelen Islands, located west of the Morbihan Bay. It is at the latitude of 49.4 degrees south.

French Southern and Antarctic Territories
Crozet Islands
1988 - 1996
The Crozet Islands are a sub-antarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean, at between 46 and 46.5 degrees south. The stamps show the topographic maps of Penguin Island, Cochon Island, and East Island.

New Caledonia
Ouen Island - Gate to the South
November 7, 2003
Ouen Island is a small island off the coast of the main island of New caledonia. The island is noted for leisure activities (sailing and hiking) as well as its geology (weathered ophiolite).

New Zealand
Scenic Definitives
May 18, 2016
The Chatham Islands form an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about 680 km southeast of mainland New Zealand. It consists of about ten islands within a 40-km radius, the largest of which are Chatham Island and Pitt Island.

Norway
National Tourist Routes
April 16, 2010
Lofoten is an archipelago in the county of Nordland, inside the Arctic Circle. Lofoten is known for a distinctive scenery with dramatic mountains and peaks, open sea and sheltered bays, beaches and untouched lands.

France
Tourism - Ile de Noirmoutier
May 4, 1998
The Island of Noirmoutier is off the Atlantic coast of France in the Vendée Department. The island is most notable for the Passage du Gois, a paved-over sandbank with a length of 4.5 kilometers, one of the routes that connect the island to the mainland. It is flooded twice a day by the high tide.

Finland
Archipelago National Park
April 25, 1997
Archipelago National Park is a national park in Southwest Finland. It was established in 1983 and covers 500 square kilometers of land areas. Most of the islands are 1 square kilometer or smaller.