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The postage stamps and postal history of Norfolk Island depended on Australia until 1947, when the island, an Australian territory since 1914, received its own stamps and a postal autonomy. After the transfer of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands' philatelic and postal services to Australia Post, Norfolk had been the last Australian territory to be postally independent. Consequently, the stamps issued by Norfolk had no value in Australia, and those of Australia Post could not be used in the island. == Before 1947 == The formal postal history of Norfolk began with the second penal settlement organised on the island between 1824 and 1855. The first post office opened in 1832.〔"Norfolk Island", ''Commonwealth Stamp Catalogue Australia'', Stanley Gibbons, 2007, page 120.〕 The first postage stamps used there were sent by Van Diemen's Land, the colony administratively responsible for the settlement. Decided late 1853, the first stamps figuring Queen Victoria, worth sixteen pounds, travelled on the ''Lady Franklin''. Part of them were lost when the prisoners aboard the ship mutinied and flew away. The second packet of stamps arrived finally to Norfolk and they were used between July 1854 and May 1855, when the penal colony was closed and all people evacuated.〔P. Collas, « Stamps of the Australian Territories: Norfolk », Pacific Union College website, date unknown ; (page ) retrieved 29 December 2008.〕 The stamps used in Norfolk can be distinguished by the number marked by the cancellation: "72".〔 Even if the island was repopulated in 1856 by migrants from the Pitcairn Islands, authorized by the United Kingdom, Norfolk received a postal service and postage stamps not before 1877. The British authorities asked New South Wales to provided them to Norfolk.〔 However, the stamp stock was not regularly reconstituted until 1898, and, with no postage stamp, the "NORFOLK ISLAND" cancel stamp sent in 1892 was not used until 1898.〔〔 With the constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, the stamps of Australia replaced those of New South Wales in 1913.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Postage stamps and postal history of Norfolk Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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