Mountains And Volcanos On Stamps

Mount Kenya (5,199 m) and Kilimanjaro (5,895 m) are shown on these 1935 KGV pictorial definitives. These are the two highest mountains in Africa.






This 1905 issue from Crete shows Mount Ida (2,456 m) as seen from Heraklion.




Ras Dashen is the highest point in Ethiopia at 4,550 m. This $5 stamp is the highest value of the 1947 postage issue, although the airmail set goes up to $10.




This is Ketil, as seen from Tasermiut Fjord. This Greenland stamp was issued in 1995 to promote tourism. Ketil is famous for the technical challenge of the climbing, not only the routes themselves but the unpredictable and rapidly changing weather. There are some superb treks through these mountains as well.




This 4k minature sheet was issued in 1987 for the Hafnia International Stamp Exhibition in Copenhagen. It shows a litho engraving by Jens Rosing of Ummannaq Mountain (1,170 m) in western Greenland.

Here's the last lot for now.

There's plenty of mountains in Mongolia. This 1932 1 T stamp shows scenery in the very beautiful NW of the country around Khovsgol Lake. Cold winters, short summers and almost as far away form the sea as you can get on this planet.




The iconic Table Mountain (1,503 m) rises above Cape Town and has featured on South African stamps from the turn of the 20th century. Here's a 1d definitive from 1900, and the 1927 10/- postal definitive (although, to be fair, the design on the stamp doesn't do any justice at all to the reality of the view.)






This 1950 Sudan air mail stamp shows the granite domes of Jebel Kassala , which rise to approx. 900m above the town of Kassala, close to the Sudanese/Eritrean border in the very far east of Sudan. It is famous for having a Tree of Life at the top, a leaf of which you should eat. A record of an ascent in 1949 suggests that this is a fig tree.

Iceland is good for mountains. The first stamps are Christmas seals from 1932 and 1939.






These next are the 1952 airmail stamps, showing Snæfellsjökull (1,446 m, and technically a volcano), Eiríksjökull (1,675 m) and Öræfajökull (2,110 m).

Snæfellsjökull is the location for Jules Verne's adventure story "Journey to The Center of The Earth," where Professor Otto Lidenbrock starts his epic journey. Öræfajökull is a limb of the much larger ice-cap Vatnajökull.




In 1957 the same set was re-issued but for regular postage. The colours and denominations were changed and the plane was left out of the design, but the mountains remain the same.




The final stamp, showing Herðubreið, was issued in 1972. Herðubreið is a lovely symmetric mountain rising to 1,682 m above the glacial outwash plains of central NE Iceland. It is popular in Icelandic art, and its distinctive shape is the result of it's having been formed by a sub-glacial eruption.

Iceland's also pretty good for volcanoes. Here's the 1970 Nature Conservation Year 15k issue of Lakí. Reams have been written on this devastating volcanic eruption. If you have a chance, visit Lakí. The rawness of the landscape and the sheer scale of devastation is mind-boggling. You can drive there, but we cycled, and the whole place is really well set up for MTBs.




Likewise, reams has been written on Surtsey, the new addition to Icelandic territory which appeared in November 1963, and is celebrated in this set from June 1963.




Snæfellsjökull features on quite a few Icelandic stamps. Here she is in the 1934 airmail set. It's a somewhat stylised design but instantly recognisable, with the aurora borealis overhead. The 25a stamps show the two perforation varieties: P 12 1/2 x 14 and P 14.




Here is Snæfellsjökull again, this time on the lowest value of the Icelandic millennium set is 15a.




Last but not least is Hekla (1491 m), the hooded one. This volcano is nasty and has caused much suffering in southern Iceland over the last 1000 years. It's so-named because it usually wears a cap of clouds (although this often reaches to sea-level...). This stamp was issued in 1935.

Azerbaijan
90th Anniversary of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
March 7, 2014
The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic is an autonomous area of Azerbaijan, governed by its own elected legislature. The souvenir sheet shows Mt. Kapudzhuk (3905 m) which marks the Azerbaijan/Armenian borderline.

Slovenia
Mountains of Slovenia
July 1, 1994
Ojstrica (2350 m) is a mountain in eastern part of Kamnik Alps close to the Austria border. The prominent pyramid shaped peak with three distinctive ridges are attractions for climbing and hiking.

Venezuela - Iran Joint Issue
Mountains
November 24, 2004
Mount Damavand is located near the southern coast of the Caspian Sea, in Amol County, Mazandaran Province, 66 kilometers northeast of the city of Tehran. The stratovolcano, at the elevation of 5610 m, is the highest peak in Iran and the Middle East as well as the highest volcano in Asia.
Bolivar Peak is the highest mountain in Venezuela and in the Cordillera de Mérida mountain range, at 4978 meters. It is located in the Sierra Nevada National Park.

Southwest Africa
Mountains
August 3, 1982
Brandberg
Omatako
Die Nadel
Spitzkuppe

United States
Centenary of Wyoming Statehood
February 23, 1990
The design reproduces an oil painting 'High Mountain Meadows' by Conrad Schwiering, with the majestic Grand Teton Mountains in the background.

On the center of Catalonia, is Montserrat (Sawed Mountain, in Catalan). Considered the Holy Mountain by Catalans, as it holds the shrine of the saint of Catalonia, Our Lady of Montserrat, a black XII century Madonna.

Liechtenstein
Winter Olympic Games
December 6, 1979
Set of three, one stamp shows Ochsenkopf which is the second-highest mountain in the Fichtel Mountains in Bavaria, Germany.

New Zealand
Definitive Issue - Scenery
May 1, 11996
Mount Taranaki, or Mount Egmont, is an active but quiescent stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of North Island. The 2518-meter-high mountain is one of the most symmetrical volcanic cones in the world. There is a secondary cone, Fanthams Peak 1,966 meters, on the south side.

Kenya Uganda Tanzania
Mountains
March 4, 1968
Mount Kenya is a stratovolcano and the highest mountain in Kenya. The highest peaks of the mountain are Batian (5,199 m), Nelion (5,188 m) and Point Lenana (4,985 m).
Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano in Tanzania. It is the highest mountain in Africa, at 5,895 m above sea level.
Ruwenzori Mountains is a mountain range of eastern equatorial Africa, located on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It supports glaciers and is one source of the river Nile.

Mount McKinley in Alaska - the largest in North America

Australia
Panoramas of Australia
July 12, 2001
The Blue Mountains is a mountainous region and a mountain range located in New South Wales. The region borders on Sydney's metropolitan area. The Blue Mountains are a dissected plateau carved in sandstone bedrock, the Three Sisters sandstone rock formation is one of the best-known attractions.