Animal Stamp of Niuafo'ou

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
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
Ichthyostega
Ichthyostega
(Ichthyostegidae)
(ICHTHYOSTEGALIA)
Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus
(Stegosauridae)
(STEGOSAURIA)
Archaeopteryx
Archaeopteryx
(Archaeopterygidae)
(ARCHAEOPTERYGIFORMES)

60s,80s/1993.5.3, 57s,$10/1993.9.14 Postage Stamp
Iguanodon
Iguanodon
(Iguanodontidae)
(ORNITHOPODA)
Tyrannosaurus
Tyrannosaurus
(Tyrannosauridae)
(THEROPODA)
Human Ancestor
Homo sapiens
(Hominidae)
Woolly Mammoth
Mammuthus primigenius
(Elephantidae)


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