TANZANIA

TANZANIA.

Rift Valley and Lake Manyara.
Thirt stamp in a set of 5, issued on 22.07.2003.
Face value: 500 Tanzanian shilingi.
Printed by Calcutta Security Printers Ltd.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 39 x 29 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 4105.
- Scott No. 2278.
- StampWorld No. 4133.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2361.

The East African Rift is an active continental rift zone in East Africa. It began developing around the onset of the Miocene, 22–25 million years ago. In the past it was considered to be part of a larger Great Rift Valley that extended north to Asia Minor. The East African Rift consists of two main branches. The Eastern Rift Valley includes the Main Ethiopian Rift, running eastward from the Afar Triple Junction, which continues south as the Kenyan Rift Valley. The Western Rift Valley transects through Ethiopia, Kenya, Congo DR, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique, and it includes a number of active and dormant volcanoes, among them: Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, Mount Longonot, Menengai Crater, Mount Karisimbi, Mount Nyiragongo, Mount Meru and Mount Elgon, as well as the Crater Highlands in Tanzania.

Lake Manyara is a lake located in Monduli District of Arusha Region, Tanzania. Its surface area is 470 km² (180 sq mi). It is a shallow, alkaline lake in the Natron-Manyara-Balangida branch of the East African Rift. The northwest quadrant of the lake (about 200 km²) is included within Lake Manyara National Park and it is part of the Lake Manyara Biosphere Reserve, established in 1981 by UNESCO as part of its Man and the Biosphere Programme. The lake is in a closed basin with no outflow, wherein water is only lost by evaporation. It is fed by underground springs, but the vast majority of the inflow comes from rainwater fed permanent and ephemeral rivers that drain the surrounding catchment. In extreme dry periods the surface area of the lake shrinks as the waters evaporate and at times the lake has dried up completely.

TANZANIA

TANZANIA.

Country Motifs.
Fishing: Mafia Island map.
Eleventh stamp in a set of 14, issued on 09.12.1965.
Face value: 2.50 Tanzanian shilingi.
Design: Victor Whiteley (1922-2002).
Printed by Harrison & Sons Ltd.
Printing; Photogravure.
Size: 45 x 29 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 15.
- Scott No. 15.
- StampWorld No. 15.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 138.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 11.

Mafia Island (Swahili: Kisiwa cha Mafia or Chole shamba) is a district of Pwani Region. Its area is 435 km² (168 sq mi), its length is 49 km (30.4 mi) and its width is 17 km (10.6 mi). Its maximum elevation is a 53 m (174 ft) hill. In 2016 it had an approximate population of 48,000 inhabitants, mainly from the Rufiji and Matumbi ethnic groups. Its most important city is Kilindoni, on the southwestern coast. The main ecosystems on the island are mangroves, coastal forests, scrublands, and grasslands. The southern coast of Mafia and its closest islands (Juani, Chole and Jibondo), together with the intervening marine waters, have been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International. A sailfish (Istiophorus orientalis) is represented on the stamp.

BRITISH EAST AFRICA

BRITISH EAST AFRICA (Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika).

Definitive stamps.
Mount Kilimanjaro and Queen Elizabeth II.
Fouth stamp in a set of 7, issued on 01.06.1954.
Printing: Recess.
Face value: 2 East African shilling.
Size: 34 x 28.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 102.
- Scott No. 114.
- StampWorld No. 72.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 177.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 98.

Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano in northeastern Tanzania, near the Kenyan border. It has three volcanic cones: Shira, 4,005 m (13,140 ft); Mawenzi, 5,149 m (16,893 ft); and Kibo, with Uhuru Peak, 5,895 m (19,341 ft) at the rim of its crater. It is the highest mountain in Africa. It is integrated into the Kilimanjaro National Park and is drained by a network of streams and by the Lumi and Pangani rivers. Kilimanjaro is a major climbing destination: after numerous failed attempts by various climbers, Hans Meyer and Ludwig Purtscheller, with African guides and porters, were the first Europeans to reach the top on October 6, 1889.

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).

TANZANIA

TANZANIA.

Famous East Africa Mountains.
Mount Kilimanjaro.
Minisheet issued on 24.8.2006.
Face value: 1000 + 1000 Tanzanian shilingi.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 130 x 100 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. BL595.
- Scott No. 2434.
- StampWorld No. 4439-4440.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MS 2552a.

Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano in northeastern Tanzania, near the Kenyan border. It has three volcanic cones: Shira, 4,005 m (13,140 ft); Mawenzi, 5,149 m (16,893 ft); and Kibo, with Uhuru Peak, 5,895 m (19,341 ft) at the rim of its crater. It is the highest mountain in Africa. It is integrated into the Kilimanjaro National Park and is drained by a network of streams and by the Lumi and Pangani rivers. Kilimanjaro is a major climbing destination: after numerous failed attempts by various climbers, Hans Meyer and Ludwig Purtscheller, with African guides and porters, were the first Europeans to reach the top on October 6, 1889.

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Thanks to Kumar Biswas for his contribution (https://kumar-omnibus.blogspot.com/).

TANZANIA

TANZANIA.

10th Anniversary of SADCC (Southern African Development Coorditation Conference).
Map of Southern Africa (SADCC Region).
Minisheet issued on 08.08.1990.
Face value: 50 Tanzanian shilingi.
Size: 88 x 88 mm.

Catalogues
- StampWorld No. 693.

The Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), the forerunner of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), was a memorandum of understanding on common economic development signed in Lusaka, Zambia, on April 1, 1980. It is formalised as the Lusaka Declaration ratified by the nine signing states (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe). The Declaration and Treaty establishing the SADC, which replaced the Coordination Conference, was signed at the Summit of Heads of State or Government on August 17, 1992, in Windhoek, Namibia.