| 27-August-2019 Christmas Island Australia 19th Cent. Explorers stamp Wesley FDC
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| 27-August-2019 Christmas Island Australia 19th Century Explorers 2 stamps Wesley First Day Cover with Captain Pelham Aldrich cachet and stamps $1 Captain John FLP Maclear, 1887 and $2 Captain Pelham Aldrich, 1887 tied pictorial postmark Anchor and Rope, Christmas Island, WA. In January 1887, British Captain John Fiot Lee Pearse Maclear (1838–1907), later an admiral, discovered an anchorage in a bay at Christmas Island that he named "Flying Fish Cove", after his ship. His party landed on the island, making a small collection of flora and fauna, though it was water-damaged on the voyage home. At the end of September 1887, Captain Pelham Aldrich (1844–1930) (also, later an admiral) visited Christmas Island, accompanied by naturalist Joseph Jackson Lister (1857–1927). Their party spent 10 days on the island, managing to penetrate further into the thick jungle and successfully scale the island’s tallest peak, later known as Murray Hill, after oceanographer John Murray (1841–1914). Aldrich also named Egeria Point after his ship. The party made valuable collections. Rock specimens sent to Murray were found to contain almost pure phosphate of lime. At Murray’s urging, the British annexed the uninhabited island in 1888. The now-extinct Christmas Island Rat (Rattus macleari) was named after John Maclear.
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Item #: INV-134427
Condition FDC
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Pricing in AU$
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Within Australia
A$
7.50
(inc GST 0.68 )
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Outside Australia
A$ 6.82
(approx. US$4.57)
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