Story behind stamps (邮票背后的故事)

Collecting stamps is a hobby from my childhood, so when I saw ‘First Day Covers’ in a Sunday market in Melbourne, I was more than surprised. It was an album of stamps about Australian history, which falls into my domain of interest. I missed out a stamps album about Europe a couple of weeks ago, which made me so regretful. So this time, I won’t miss it out, I decided to bid and possess it. After bargaining with the boss, I got it! A stamp is usually to memorize some important events or key persons in the history of human being, there are always an episode behind each of the stamp. It is a process of art enjoyment and knowledge obtain to investigate the story underneath. Please follow me to enjoy this process. ..

This is the second issue of stamps in the Australian Bicentennial collection honours the seventeenth century navigators who touched upon Australia’s shores. Their discoveries turned the existence of Terra Australia from conjecture to reality. Four of the best known are featured.

Willem Jansz, captain of the Dutch East India vessel Duyfken ,was the first European known to set foot on Australian soil. He explored Australian land twice and adventured western shore of Cape York in Queensland, near the town of Weipa. This is the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent. Janszoon proceeded to chart some 320 km of the coastline, which he thought was a southerly extension of New Guinea. Finding the land swampy and the people inhospitable (ten of his men were killed on various shore expeditions), Janszoon decided to return at a place he named Cape Keerweer ("Turnabout"), south of Albatross Bay, and arrived back at Bantam in June 1606. He called the land he had discovered "Nieu Zeland", after the Dutch province of Zeeland, but the name was not adopted, and was later used by Abel Tasman for New Zealand.

Dirk hartog became the first to make contact with Australia’s western seaboard. He left a pewter plate nailed to a pole as proof of his visit. He made landfall at an island off the coast of Shark Bay, Western Australia, which is now called Dirk Hartog Island after him. His was the second recorded European expedition to land on the Australian continent, having been preceded by Willem Jansz in 1606, but the first to do so on the western coastline.

Abel Janszoon Tasman (Dutch: [ˈɑbəl ˈjɑnsoːn ˈtɑsmɑn]; 1603 – 10 October 1659) was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He was the first known European explorer to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and New Zealand, and to sight the Fiji islands.

William Dampier: was a crew member aboard the pirate vessel Cygnet when he recorded the first British contact with the Australian coast in 1688. Dampier returned eleven year later as a captain of the Roebuck to chart a segment of the north-west shoreline.

Stamp design: Garry Emery Melbourne
Stamp size: 35mm X 35 mm
Issued sheet content: 50 stamps in two panes of 25 with colour bars in the gutter.

It is really interesting and inspiring to read this background stories of olden days’ hero, we should appreciate them for their bravery and spirit of exploration to have nowadays happy life. Thanks for your attention and support to my blog.

集邮是我从小就有的兴趣，当我在一个集贸市场发现居然有首日封的时候，我倍感惊喜。整套邮票都是关于澳洲历史的，正好落在了我的兴趣范围。曾经有一整套关于欧洲历史的邮票摆在我的面前，我却没有珍惜，真是肠子都悔青了。这次我绝对不会错过！经过一番讨价还价，我终于以不可思议的低价格买下了。 邮票通常用于纪念历史上的重要事件和关键人物，每张邮票背后都有它自己的故事。集邮的过程就是对艺术的享受和了解这背后故事的过程。请跟我一起来享受这个过程。

这套是澳大利亚二百周年第二期纪念邮票，纪念了航海史上发现澳大利亚海岸的十七世纪航海家。 他们的发现将澳大利亚这片土地的存在从猜想转变为现实。 其中四人的贡献最为突出。

荷兰东印度船队杜伊夫肯的船长威廉•詹斯（Willem Jansz）是澳大利亚土地上的第一位是欧洲人，。 他探访过澳大利亚两次，主要在昆士兰州约克角的西岸靠近魏帕镇的地带进行探险。 詹斯前往昆士兰州海岸线320公里的地方，他开始的时候认为这是新几内亚（New Guinea）的南部延伸。他发觉这里的土地充满沼泽，而且这里的人民对他们很不友好（他的十个人在各种考察中被当地人杀害），于是詹斯决定在信天翁湾以南的一个名叫凯基维尔角（“Turnabout”）的地方返回，并于1606年六月份抵达班丹.他按照荷兰一个叫做‘Zeeland’省为他新发现的地方取名叫做“Nieu Zeland”，但这个名字没有被后人采用，后来被一个叫做亚伯 塔斯曼 (Abel Tasman)的人用这个名字命名了现在的新西兰。

德克•哈图（Dirk hartog）是第一个与澳大利亚西海岸登陆的人。 他把一块锡板钉在一根柱子上，作为他访问的证明。 他在西澳大利亚州鲨鱼湾海岸的一个岛上登陆，后来他被称为德克哈图岛（Dirk Hartog Island）。根据历史纪录，他是在澳大利亚大陆登陆的第二批的欧洲考察队，在他之前是1606年威廉•詹斯（Willem Jansz）也发现了西海岸，然而德克•哈图却是第一个西海岸线上登陆的人。

亚伯•詹桑雄•塔斯曼 Abel Janszoon Tasman（荷兰语：[ɑbəljɑnsoːntɑsmɑn]; 1603年10月16日至10月10日）是荷兰海员，探险家和商人，以1642年和1644年为荷兰东印度公司（VOC）服务而闻名。 他是第一个已知的欧洲探险家，到达范迪门的土地（现在的塔斯马尼亚州）和新西兰，并看到斐济群岛。

威廉•丹皮尔（William Dampier）：当时他是海盗船Cygnet的船员，根据澳洲历史记录，他是在1688年发现澳大利亚海岸的第一个英国人。十一年后，丹皮尔作为罗巴克的船长返回澳大利亚，绘制了澳洲西北海岸线的一段地图。

每次读起这些邮票背后开拓者的故事，我们应该感谢他们的勇敢和探险精神，正是他们，给我们带来了今天的美好生活。

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