2023 - Sobrescrito dos CTT circulado em correio azul de Lisboa para Estoi com selo da emissão descoberta da Antártida de taxa 0,84 € obliterado com flamula ondulada CTC Sul datada de 05/12/2022.
Mundifil n.º 5370
This Wednesday, June 16, CTT presents a philatelic issue on the Discovery of Antarctica, with two stamps and a philatelic block with one stamp.
In this philatelic issue, the first stamp shows Vostok, the ship commanded by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, an oil painting on canvas, by Mikhail Semyonov, from 1949; and a sea needle, Portuguese made, from the 17th century. XIX; the second stamp shows Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, an engraving from the 18th century. XIX (a Russian explorer who became one of the first navigators to sight Antarctica, in 1820) and a navy oculus with lithograph with flags of several countries of the century. XIX; the philatelic block, in turn, shows the Map of Antarctica, from 1890.
According to Commander António Gonçalves, author of the page of this issue, “[…] it would be necessary to wait three centuries, until the expedition led by Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von Bellingshausen (1778-1852) sighted, for the first time, the coast of Antarctica , on January 28, 1820, having his name attributed to the adjacent sea where he sailed. […] During these three centuries, Australia was also discovered, which for some time remained associated with the alleged continental mass of Aristotelian origins. According to contemporary imagination, Terra Australis delimited all the world's seas to the austro, with the mythical designation being at the origin of the name given to that territory. Due to the extreme characteristics of its climate, Antarctica is the only continent that does not have an indigenous human population,
This philatelic issue consists of two stamps with a face value of €0.54 and €0.84 and a print run of 100,000 copies each, and a philatelic block with a stamp of €2.50 and 35,000 copies each. . The design of the stamps was in charge of Pedro Ferreira. The first-day obliterations will be carried out in Restauradores stores in Lisbon, Municipality II in Porto, Zarco in Funchal and Antero de Quental in Ponta Delgada.
