Thursday 31 October 2024

3494) Cacho Island (or Isla de Cacho), Spain: Correos (Espana (Spanish Post) has issued a postage stamp of 2.90 Euros celebrating the naming of this Island on a living Spaniard: Date/Year of Stamp issue: 23.10.2024:

3494) Cacho Island (or Isla de Cacho), Spain: Correos (Espana (Spanish Post) has issued a postage stamp of 2.90 Euros celebrating the naming of this Island on a living Spaniard: Date/Year of Stamp issue: 23.10.2024:

Since time immemorial, travellers and navigators have given names to geographical features.

As Antarctica was the last of the continents to be discovered, the first seal hunters who travelled along its coasts began to name the islands they discovered and the most notable geographical features.

Thus, names appeared that were descriptive of the activity they carried out there, such as “Whaling Bay”, of their physical appearance, such as “Half Moon Island”, or of their rulers, such as “Queen Maud Mountains”.

Over time, names of legendary explorers were added to these names, such as “Amundsen Sea”, “Shackleton Glacier” or “Scott Island”, among many others.

With the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, it became a place of solidarity between nations, without borders or weapons, open to all and where the only activities that can be carried out are related to Peace and Science. From that moment on, the names of scientists began to appear on its maps.

Thus, in 2020, the highest Antarctic authority, the SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) approved, at the proposal of the Bulgarian Antarctic Committee, that an island on that continent be named after the Spanish researcher, explorer and writer Javier Cacho. In recognition of his professional career on that continent and his work in disseminating information about Antarctica.

The island is in the vicinity of Isla Nevada, one of the 11 large islands of the South Shetland archipelago, located at the end of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is a striking rocky island 750 m long and 350 m wide, with heights close to 75 meters.

When it was discovered at the beginning of the 19th century, it seemed to be one end of the Hall Peninsula, but a few decades ago the immense snow bridge of almost 200 meters in length that joined it melted. Today, it is the only island that bears the name of a living Spaniard.

The Stamp:

The postage Stamp of 2.90 Euro.

The First Day Cover (FDC)

Technical details:

Issue Date: 23.10.2024






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