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Tristan story web pages for "Available Stamp Issues"

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Stamp issue: Garden Flowers

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2024-04-18.php, 10 April 2024
Stamps featuring garden flowers that are popular on Tristan.
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Stamp issue: 60th Anniversary of Tristan's 1961 Volcano, Part 3

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2023-12-11.php, 6 December 2023
Stamps commemorating the 60th anniversary of the resettlement of Tristan's population after the evacuation caused by the 1961 volcanic eruption.
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Stamp issue: The Coronation of King Charles III

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2023-09-07.php, 15 August 2023
Stamps celebrating the Coronation of King Charles III on the 6th May 2023.
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Stamp issue: Penguins

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2023-08-09.php, 24 July 2023
Stamps celebrating penguins of the South Atlantic.
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Stamp issue: 100th Anniversary of St Mary's Church

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2023-07-07.php, 4 July 2023
Stamps celebrating the centenary of the dedication of St Mary's Anglican Church.
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Stamp issue: Visiting US Liberty Ships (1943)

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2023-04-06.php, 24 March 2023
Stamps commemorating the four Liberty ships that called at Tristan in May 1943 having suffered radio and cargo damage due to severe storms.
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Stamp issue: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 1926-2022

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2023-02-15.php, 10 February 2023
Stamps commemorating Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 1926-2022.
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Stamp issue: The Legacy of Jacques Cousteau 1910 - 1997

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2022-10-03.php, 1 October 2022
Stamps commemorating the 25th anniversary of the death of diving pioneer Jacques Cousteau.
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Stamp issue: Vagrant Species Part 3

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2022-10-06.php, 1 October 2022
Stamps showing some of the non-native species that occasionally turn up on Tristan's islands.
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Stamp issue: Centenary of The Death of Sir Ernest Shackleton

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2022-05-25.php, 17 May 2022
Stamps commemorating the centenary of the death of Sir Ernest Shackleton at South Georgia during the 1921-22 Quest expedition. The Quest called at Tristan during its return voyage.
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Stamp issue: 40th Anniversary of Falklands Liberation

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2022-05-16.php, 6 May 2022
Stamps commemorating the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands and the tugs of the task force.
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Stamp issue: Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2022-03-24.php, 21 March 2022
Stamps commemorating the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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Stamp issue: 60th Anniversary of Tristan's 1961 Volcano, Part 2

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2022-03-21.php, 2 March 2022
Stamps commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Royal Society Expedition 1961/62 to study Tristan's 1961 volcanic eruption.
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Stamp issue: The Blue Belt Programme

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2021-11-29.php, 18 November 2021
Stamps commemorating the establishment of Tristan's Marine Protected Zone, the largest in the Atlantic, as part of the UK's Blue Belt Programme.
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Stamp issue: 60th Anniversary of Tristan's 1961 Volcano, Part 1

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2021-11-03.php, 27 October 2021
Stamps commemorating the 60th anniversary of Tristan da Cunha's 1961 volcanic eruption and the evacuation of the population to England.
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Stamp issue: HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh 1921-2021

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2021-09-23.php, 16 September 2021
Stamps commemorating the life of HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh 1921-2021.
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Stamp issue: Sharks: Part 2

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2021-07-14.php, 29 June 2021
This set of stamps shows four of the shark species found in Tristan waters.
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Stamp issue: 60th and 50th Anniversaries of Decimalisation

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2021-05-26.php, 29 April 2021
Stamps commemorating the anniversaries of the two occasions that Tristan decimalised its currency.
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Stamp issue: 95th Birthday of HM Queen Elizabeth II

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2021-04-21.php, 3 March 2021
Stamps celebrating the 95th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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Stamp Issue: Modern Mail Ships Definitives

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2020-12-14.php, 14 December 2020
These definitive stamps depict some of the ships that carried mail to and from Tristan between 1957 and 2020.
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Stamp issue: The Sword of Peace

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2020-12-08.php, 27 November 2020
Stamps commemorating 50 years since the award of the Sword of Peace to RFA Ennerdale for its part in an emergency search operation at Gough Island.
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Stamp issue: Vagrant Species Part 2

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2020-11-09.php, 23 October 2020
Stamps showing some of the non-native species that occasionally turn up on Tristan's islands.
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Stamp issue: Mid Atlantic Healthcare

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2020-10-20.php, 14 September 2020
These stamps illustrate the history of healthcare on Tristan da Cunha.
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Stamp issue: Sharks: Part 1

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2020-09-29.php, 30 August 2020
This set of stamps shows four of the shark species found in Tristan waters.
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Stamp issue: Female Ancestors

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2020-05-07.php, 23 April 2020
Stamps commemorating Tristan da Cunha's female ancestors.
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Stamp issue: 25th Anniversary of UNESCO World Heritage Site

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2020-03-24.php, 28 February 2020
Stamps marking the 25th anniversary of Gough and Inaccessible Islands being inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Stamp issue: Whaling and Sealing Ships

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2019-12-02.php, 2 December 2019
Stamps showing US whaling and sealing ships that sailed with Tristanian crew in the 19th century.
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Stamp issue: Vagrant Species Part 1

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2019-11-19.php, 6 November 2019
Stamps showing some of the non-native species that occasionally turn up on Tristan's islands.
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Stamp issue: Island Life - Through Their Eyes

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2019-10-01.php, 26 September 2019
Stamps showing island life through the eyes of Tristan schoolchildren.
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Stamp issue: 75th anniversary of D-Day

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2019-06-19.php, 21 May 2019
This set of stamps commemorates the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
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Stamp issue: Tristan Lobster Fisheries

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2019-04-10.php, 28 March 2019
This set of stamps commemorates the rock lobster fisheries that underpin the Tristan economy.
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Stamp issue: Whales

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2019-02-11.php, 7 February 2019
This set of stamps shows four of the whale species found in Tristan waters.
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Stamp issue: Tristan da Cunha Migratory Species

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2018-10-18.php, 28 September 2018
This set of stamps illustrates the migratory routes of two of Tristan's seabird species.
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Stamp issue: Wreck of the Mabel Clark, 1878

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2018-09-03.php, 20 August 2018
This set of stamps commemorate the 140th anniversary of the wreck of the US ship Mabel Clark on Tristan da Cunha on 1st May 1878.
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Stamp issue: Royal Wedding of Prince Harry & Meghan Markle

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2018-08-20.php, 16 July 2018
This set of stamps celebrates the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on 19th May 2018.
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Stamp issue: Centenary of the RAF 1918-2018

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2018-07-02.php, 5 June 2018
This set of stamps commemorates the centenary of the formation of the Royal Air Force.
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Stamp issue: 70th Anniversary of the 'Tristan Venture'

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2018-03-12.php, 12 March 2018
Stamps celebrating the 70th anniversary of the South African scientific survey expedition that led to the establishment of the Tristan Rock Lobster fishing industry.
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Stamp issue: Visiting Royal Navy Ships

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2018-02-20.php, 20 February 2018
Stamps celebrating four of the Royal Navy ships that visit and provide support to Tristan da Cunha.
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Stamp issue: Norwegian Tristan Expedition 1937-1938

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2017-12-07.php, 20 November 2017
This set of stamps commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Norwegian scientific expedition to Tristan in 1937-1938.
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Stamp issue: Royal Platinum Wedding Anniversary

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2017-11-20.php, 1 November 2017
Stamps commemorating the 70th Wedding Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.
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Stamp Issue: Northern Rockhopper Penguins

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2017-10-13.php, 9 October 2017
Stamps celebrating the Tristan da Cunha group's breeding population of Northern Rockhopper Penguins.
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Stamp issue: 150th Anniversary of the visit of Prince Alfred

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2017-08-05.php, 5 July 2017
Stamps celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the visit to Tristan da Cunha in 1867 by Queen Victoria's second son Prince Alfred, who was the Duke of Edinburgh after whom the settlement was renamed.
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Stamp issue: Fur Seals

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2017-04-12.php, 7 April 2017
Stamps celebrating the Tristan da Cunha group's breeding population of Subantarctic Fur Seals.
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Stamp issue: 60th Anniversary of HRH Prince Philip's visit

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2017-01-24.php, 24 January 2017
Stamps commemorating 60 years since HRH Prince Philip visited Tristan on the Royal Yacht Britannia on the 17th January 1957.
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Stamp issue: Biodiversity Part II

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2016-12-07.php, 7 December 2016
Stamps illustrating the Tristan Group's biodiversity - Part II: Six more species endemic to the islands.
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Stamp issue: Biodiversity Part I

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2016-11-30.php, 30 November 2016
Stamps illustrating the Tristan Group's biodiversity - Part I: Six species endemic to the islands.
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Stamp issue: Peter Green and the Wreck of the Emily

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2016-11-10.php, 10 November 2016
This set of stamps commemorates Peter Green, who founded one of Tristan's biggest families. He decided to stay, when his ship, the American sealer Emily, ran aground on the south coast in 1836.
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Stamp issue: Bicentenary of the British Garrison 1816 - 2016

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2016-08-14.php, 2 July 2016
These stamps commemorate the bicentenary of Britain taking possession of Tristan, with the landing of a garrison from HMS Falmouth on the 14th August 1816. Corporal William Glass and his family stayed on to become the founders of the colony.
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Stamp issue: 400th Death Anniversary of William Shakespeare

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2016-07-04.php, 30 June 2016
This set of stamps commemorates the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, with illustrations of characters from four of his plays.
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Stamp Issue: Queen Elizabeth II: 90 Years of Style

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2016-04-21.php, 16 March 2016
This set of stamps celebrates the 90th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by showing various dress styles she has worn during her lifetime.
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Stamp Issue: Early Mail Ships Definitives

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2015-12-08.php, 26 November 2015
This definitive stamp issue depicts the main ships that carried mail to and from the island between 1904 and 1953.
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Stamp Issue: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2015-12-01.php, 20 November 2015
These stamps celebrate 150 years since Alice's Adventures in Wonderland were published by Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Dodgson). The author's brother Edwin Dodgson was the missionary teacher on Tristan da Cunha during the 1880s.
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Stamp Issue: The Lifeboat Disaster

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2015-11-27.php, 5 November 2015
This set of stamps commemorates the sad day in 1885 when most of the island's able bodied men were mysteriously lost at sea while taking trade goods out in the island's lifeboat to a passing vessel - the SV West Riding.
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Stamp Issue: HM Queen Elizabeth II: Britain's Longest Reign

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2015-09-09.php, 21 August 2015
This set of stamps celebrates Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becoming the longest reigning Monarch in British history on 9th September 2015, surpassing the reign of her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria.
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Stamp Issue: 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2015-06-15.php, 18 June 2015
This set of stamps commemorates the 800th anniversary of the granting of the charter by King John that forms the basis of Common Law rights to liberty and justice in countries around the world.
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Stamp Issue: USS Hornet Captures HMS Penguin

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2015-06-01.php, 9 May 2015
This set of stamps marks the bicentenary of the capture HMS Penguin by the USS Hornet on the 23rd March 1815 off Tristan da Cunha in the last action of the War of 1812 - the last time that the UK and the USA were at war with each other.
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Stamp Issue: The 'Potato Essays'

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2015-04-08.php, 26 March 2015
This sheetlet shows nine stamps designs, with face values in pence and potatoes, submitted by Allan Crawford with the petition for Tristan da Cunha to have its own postage stamps. Also featured is Tristan's first official stamp.
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Stamp issue: 350th Anniversary of the Royal Marines

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2014-10-28.php, 28 October 2014
This set of stamps illustrates notable events in the history of the Royal Marines.
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Stamp issue: Outbreak of World War I

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2014-08-04.php, 4 August 2014
These stamps show British recruitment and propaganda posters from WWI.
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Stamp issue: Augustus Earle 1793-1838, Travelling Artist

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2014-07-10.php, 10 July 2014
Stamps reproducing ing paintings by Augustus Earle, marking the 190th Anniversary of his enforced stay on Tristan da Cunha.
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Stamp issue: Tristan's Endemic Finches

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2014-06-18.php, 18 June 2014
Stamps depicting Tristan da Cunha's endemic finches, traditionally called buntings because of their resemblance to European buntings.
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Stamp issue: Prince George's Christening

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2014-05-21.php, 21 May 2014
Stamps showing historical royal Christenings.
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Stamp issue: Ships and Explorers

https://www.tristandc.com/po/ponews-2014-04-07.php, 7 April 2014
Stamps depicting Arctic and Antarctic Explorers and Personalities, each stamp depicts with the ship most closely associated with them and Tristan da Cunha.

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