Clipperton Island (Île de Clipperton) is an uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Central America. Clipperton has had no permanent inhabitants since 1945. It is visited on occasion by fishermen, French Navy patrols, scientific researchers, film crews, and shipwreck survivors. It has become a…
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French Establishments in Oceania
In 1903, the French Establishments in Oceania (Établissements Français d’Océanie) were created, which collected together Tahiti, the other Society Islands, the Austral Islands, the Marquesas Islands and the Tuamotu Archipelago. In 1946, the EFO became an overseas territory under the constitution of the French Fourth Republic, and Polynesians were granted…
View More French Establishments in OceaniaGrenada
Grenada is a sovereign state in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself plus six smaller islands which lie to the north of the main island. Grenada is also known as the “Island…
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The West Indies Federation was a short-lived political union that existed from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962. Various islands in the Caribbean that were colonies of the United Kingdom, including Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, and those on the Leeward and Windward Islands, came together to form the…
View More West Indies FederationStamp Chats: The 1929 Airmail Stamps of India
The 1929 Airmail Stamps of India will be presented by Mr. Markand Dave, FRPSL, philatelist, author, and will be hosted by the American Philatelic Society.
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Mauritania
Mauritania (Mauritanie) derives its name from the ancient Berber kingdom of Mauretania, which existed from the 3rd century BCE into the 7th century CE in the modern-day Morocco and West Algeria. France laid claim to the territories of present-day Mauritania from the Senegal River area and northwards, starting in the…
View More MauritaniaDenmark: West Jutland
Jutland (Jylland , known anciently as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany. The names are derived from the Jutes and the Cimbri, respectively. West Jutland is characterised by open lands, heaths, plains and…
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Zealand or Sealand (Sjælland) is the largest and most populous island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island, which are larger in size). Administratively, Zealand is divided between two Danish regions: The Copenhagen metropolitan area and North Zealand belong to the Capital Region, while the major and more rural…
View More Denmark: South and West ZealandRepublic of Upper Volta
The Republic of Upper Volta (République de Haute-Volta) was a landlocked West African country established on December 11, 1958, as a self-governing colony within the French Community. Before attaining autonomy it had been French Upper Volta and part of the French Union. On August 5, 1960, it attained full independence…
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Southern Jutland (Sønderjylland) is the name for the region south of the Kongeå in Jutland, Denmark and north of the Eider (river) in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The region north of the Kongeå is called Nørrejylland, ‘Northern Jutland’. Both territories had their own ting assemblies in the Middle Ages (in Viborg and…
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