Author: thedigitalphilatelist

Australia

Australia Philately: 2012 Inland Explorers – $1.20 Overland Crossing 1861-1862

thedigitalphilatelist 13/07/2012

Some 50 years later, Stuart became the fi rst European to make the south–north return crossing of Australia. He left South Australia with his nine companions in October 1861, on his third attempt to cross the continent, reaching the coast at Van Diemen Gulf on 24 July 1862. Stuart raised…

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Australia Philately: 2012 Inland Explorers – 60c Blue Mountains Crossing 1813

thedigitalphilatelist 13/07/2012

No artist accompanied either expedition, so the source engravings on which the stamp scenes are based were created years later. Emile Ulm’s Blue Mountain Pioneers was published in the 1880 Christmas supplement of the Sydney Mail, and is presumably his impression of the party reaching the western-most point of its…

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