Pitcairn Islands 2007 Raising of the Anchor of HMAV Bounty from Bounty Bay
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date: 20th April 2007
- four values plus a label in a horizontal se-tenant strip noting 50th anniversary of discovery and raising of the anchor
- Designed by: Lukas Kukler from photographs taken by Luis Marden and other voyagers on the Yankee
- Printed by: Wyatt & Wilson, New Zealand
- Print process: lithography
- stamp format height 43mm x width 30mm. Strip width 215mm including label
- Perforation: 13.1 x 13.1
60c ~ diver close to encrusted anchor fluke
$1.00 ~ two divers alongside anchor (at sea bed, with corals)
$1.20 ~ anchor being winched aboard the brigantine Yankee
$2.50 ~ anchor laid out at landing place on Pitcairn
Designed after original photographs from the expedition which raised the anchor in February 1957 (photographs
originally published in National Geographic magazine). The Bounty would have had up to five anchors.
