Vanuatu 2009 First Contact with Russia 1809
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date: 28th July 2009
- two values se-tenant in a miniature sheet
- Designed by: Denise Durkin
- Printed by: Wyatt & Wilson, New Zealand
- Print process: lithography
- stamp format height 35mm x width 50mm. Sheet oval format max width 128mm
- Perforations: 13 x 13
Bicentenary of the Visit of Russian Ship to the New Hebrides
130vt ~ Admiral V M Golovnin
350vt ~ the sloop Diana
Notes: Golovnin, charged with sailing from the Gulf of Finland to Kamchatka,
experienced a rough passage aroud the Cape of Good Hope; as a recuperation stop
he anchored off Tanna Island (at Cook's Port Resolution on July 28, 1809