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The route to Africa
Liberia, Scott C43, 1942, 39mm x 24mm Once again we have a stamp issue commemorating the air supply route from North America via South America to western Africa in the middle of World War II. Only...
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Separation
Tuvalu, Scott 29, 1976, 28mm x 45mm Here we have a map stamp which depicts almost pure ocean – only 300 square kilometers of the approximately 200000 shown here given over to solid ground, the rest of...
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The secret revealed
I asked “What do these stamps have in common?” The answer is: each one of them lacks the conventional orientation of North at the top, South at the bottom, like over 90% of all map stamps. The first...
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Not yet determined
Pakistan, 1961, Scott 122, 39mm x 23mm The text in the upper region in white reads Jammu & Kashmir (Final status not yet determined). And in the lower section of the stamp, next to the...
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90 miles
Cuba, 1971, 40mm x 36mm The first of these two stamps show how the Atlantic tropical storm tracks seem irresistibly drawn to the island of Cuba, where, fueled by the warm Gulf waters, some of them...
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Mums
Japan, 1930, Scott 209, 25mm x 25mm This stamp is a bit rougher than most of the others I have shown here, but I think still worth a look. The map area of the stamp depicts the Japanese empire, which...
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Bleeding over the edges
Lebanon, 1961, Scott C296, 20mm x 36mm Here we have a somewhat anonymous-looking strip of land with boundaries to the east and west but extending to the bounding pane at the north and south....
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Outline of the Hawkeye state
United States, 1946, Scott 942, 38mm x 23mm, plate block The map on this stamp from six decades ago shows the outline of the US state of Iowa to commemorate the centenary of statehood. The monochrome...
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Four colors
Belize, 32mm x 48mm I like this map stamp because of the way it illustrates the Four Color Map Theorem, which asserts that any map on a plane (or a sphere) can be split up into areas each colored one...
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Exploring the north
Canada, 1957, Scott 370, 34mm x 23mm Canada’s great geographer, David Thompson, is honored on this issue. He appears in the foreground sighting through what appears to be an octant, with the...
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