Niuafo'ou is a solitary island in the distant sea located in about 640km north of the Tonga tab island that is the center of the Kingdom of Tonga. It do a doughnut type so that there is Lake caldera of a diameter of around 6km in the center of the island at a volcanic island. There were manners and customs called "Tin Can Mail" which it carried away the can which put a letter in an ocean current in the old days and mailed it.
Four kinds of fish stamps were issued in 1989 by this Tonga territory Niuafo'ou.
The stamp which drew an ancient creature on was issued in 1989 and 1993.
It is said that life is born for 4,600,000,000 years after the earth was born and passes more than 3,000,000,000 years. And, after last Cumbria charges, the Paleozoic era, the Mesozoic, the geological age called the new generation, the times that we lived in did it.
Tonga territory Niuafo'ou
1989.6.2 Fish Stamp
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Lovely Hatchetfish Argyropelecus aculeatus (Sternoptychidae) |
Longspine Snipefish Macroramphosus scolopax (Macroramphosidae) |
Pacific Viperfish Chauliodus macouni (Stomiidae) |
Football Angelfish Himantolophus groenlandicus (Himantolophidae) |
1989.6.6 Postage Stamp
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Ichthyostega Ichthyostega (Ichthyostegidae) (ICHTHYOSTEGALIA) |
Stegosaurus Stegosaurus (Stegosauridae) (STEGOSAURIA) |
Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx (Archaeopterygidae) (ARCHAEOPTERYGIFORMES) |
60s,80s/1993.5.3, 57s,$10/1993.9.14 Postage Stamp
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Iguanodon Iguanodon (Iguanodontidae) (ORNITHOPODA) |
Tyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus (Tyrannosauridae) (THEROPODA) |
Human Ancestor Homo sapiens (Hominidae) |
Woolly Mammoth Mammuthus primigenius (Elephantidae) |