Animal Stamp of NewCaledonia

New Caledonia is on the South Pacific, and it is compring with Grand-Terre island that is the same size to Japanese Shikoku, Ile des Pins, Ouvea, Lifou, Mare and other small islands, and a Melanesian and a Polynesian lived from old days. British Captain Cook discovered Grand-Terre Island in 1774 and named New Caledonia. French La Perouse and many Catholic and Protestant missionaries visited it, and Napoleon III declared that New Caledonia was a French territory afterwards in 1853. It was an exile place of a French political offense until 1887. It is recognized a French overseas territory from a colony of a French territory in 1946 and maintains autonomy as the main industry by the nickel mining industry and sightseeing business while being a part of the French Republic.
From this New Caledonia, four kinds of bird stamps of the World Wide Fund for Nature on which it drew kagu were issued in 1998.

New Caledonia
1998.10.20 World Wide Fund for Nature Bird Stamp
Kagu
Rhynochetos jubatus
(Rhynochetidae)
Kagu
Rhynochetos jubatus
(Rhynochetidae)
Kagu
Rhynochetos jubatus
(Rhynochetidae)
Kagu
Rhynochetos jubatus
(Rhynochetidae)


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