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Portugal on stamps

Research by Luís Filipe Thomaz on maps of the Dieppe School and on the travels of Cristóvão de Mendonça (1522) and Lopes de Sequeira (1525), as well as archaeological findings of Kenneth Mcintire, seem to indicate that the Portuguese were the first Europeans to explore Australia, having landed on the North coast in the 16th century, before the Dutch in 1606.


The set was designed by Carlos Possolo, lithographed by Litografia Maia on enamelled paper sheets of 5×10 stamps with perforation 12×12½, and issued on 19 March 1999 for the International Stamp Exhibition held in Melbourne. The miniature sheet shows the two stamps merged into a single 350$00 stamp within the rest of Possolo’s painting.

Stamp Print run Afinsa Gibbons Michel Scott Yvert
kangaroos 500,000 2569 2697 2327 2283
aborigines 250,000 2570 2698 2328 2284
sheet 60,000 208 MS2699 2285

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