oceania
Below you will find articles about Oceania. Or click here to view stamps with the subject Oceania in the catalog.
Climate victims part 3 – the coral
Flipping through channels like National Geographic and Animal Planet, they sometimes appear: beautiful images of coral reefs. 'Wow,' I always think, 'I'd really like to see that in real life.' But well, with my introductory diving training, I will...
Climate victims part 1, the sea turtle
Many animal and plant species are suffering from more extreme weather conditions or rising temperatures. The problems caused by climate change are very diverse but have one thing in common. They pose a serious threat to many animals. The World Wildlife Fund proposed a...
Posing penguins on postage stamps
For many families, the ski holiday is just around the corner again. And although you won't come across a single one in France, Switzerland, or Austria, snow often makes me think of penguins. Actually a strange thought, because penguins don't come alone...
Harriet and Charles Darwin…
Who was Harriet? And what was her relationship with Charles Darwin? Yes, *the* Darwin of the theory of evolution. His lover? No, that was Emma Wedgwood. Indeed, 'relative of'. She was the granddaughter of the famous pottery manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood. Just a little hint...
Friedenreich's Hundertwasser, a collection
As mentioned before, Friedenreichs Hundertwasser kept playing on my mind. His 80th birthday was the occasion to issue a sheet containing four stamps in values of 55c, €1,00, 75c, and €1,25. On the stamps...
The seal of the future!
While leafing through a few old issues of the Nederlandsch Maandblad voor Philatelie, volume 1931, I came across an advertisement for a stamp dealer in Amsterdam. The stamp of the future! It concerned the 1 guilder airmail stamp of the Dutch East Indies with...
