Animal Stamp of Kingdom of Denmark

Faroe Islands is located mostly right in the middle, is in the north in Britain, and the middle in Iceland and Norway, is Islands in which a Viking's posterity lives, and is the colony of Denmark. The cliff of the coastline made of rocks or the basalt which towers highly is suitable for nest building of a sea bird, and has also become the treasury of a sea bird.
Ten kinds of deep-sea fish stamps were issued in 2006 from this Faroe Islands.


Faroe Islands
2006.2.13 Deep Sea Fish Stamp
Atlantic Football Angelfish
Himantolophus groenlandicus
(Himantolophidae)
Elongated Bristlemouth
Gonostoma elongatum
(Gonostomatidae)
Deepwater Redfish
Sebastes mentella
(Scorpaenidae)
Blue Ray
Neoraja caerulea
(Rajidae)
Straightnose Rabbitfish
Broadnose chimaera
(Rhinochimaeridae)
Deep Sea Anglerfish
Linophryne lucifer
(Linophrynidae)
Deep Sea Anglerfish
Ceratias holboelli
(Ceratiidae)
Moonfish
Lampris guttatus
(Lampridae)
Hatchet Fish
Argyropelecus olfersii
(Sternoptychidae)
Anglerfish
Lophius piscatorius
(Lophiidae)


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