Sunday Stamps from the Southern Hemisphere

Apart from obvious countries in South America and Australia/New Zealand I had to get an atlas out to check on smaller nations especially those which are in island chains.

In the end I settled for Indonesia, a country which the equator runs through. I am not sure whether the tourist locations on my stamps are all below the equator, but I'm showing them anyway.

These were from a set of four issued on 10th February 2017.

For more Southern Hemisphere view visit the links at Sunday Stamps - albatross

Sunday Stamps II from the Southern Hemisphere

I have been touring islands and atolls in the South Pacific this week, calling in at

French Polynesia - 1 November 195

where the 118 volcanic islands and atolls cover an area the size of Western Europe including Tahiti. In 1971 the atoll of  Mururoa was the site of a French nuclear test.

French Southern and Antarctic Territories include the Archipel des Crozet, a sub antarctic archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean.

French Southern and Antarctic Territories
18 April 1956

Penguin Island, one of the six Crozet Islands, is home to four species of penguin - Macaroni, King, Gentoo and Eastern Rock Hoppers. I believe it is the Rock Hoppers on the stamp.

For more stamps from the southern hemisphere please visit the links at  Sunday-Stamps-II-112.