AUSTRALIA — 1954: An 3½ pence rose-red postage stamp depicting portrait Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh. Visit of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh to Australia. Elizabeth II was the first reigning monarch of Australia to set foot on Australian soil, coming ashore at Farm Cove, Sydney, on 3 February 1954. She undertook a journey through the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, including greeting 70,000 ex-servicemen and women at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and opening the Australian Parliament

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Australia is located in Oceania, south of Indonesia, washed by the Indian Ocean to the west, and the Pacific Ocean to the east. Now it is a self-governing dominion of the British Commonwealth, the capital of which is Canberra. Australia includes the former British colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. This postage stamp, as a physical objects, is part of a private collection owned by the author of the image

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Size: 3800px × 2500px
Location: Australia
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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