Faroe Islands, 22.02.2010
Designer: Edward Fugl?
Printer: Southern Colour Prin
Process: offset+ Metal FX
Size: 46.00 mm x 28.27 mm
The pilot whale (Globicephala melas) is an extremely gregarious animal that regularly swims along the Faroese coast on its migration within its habitat in the northern Atlantic Ocean. During the approximately 300 years for which we have statistics, somewhere between 800 and 1500 whales have been killed annually in the Faroes. It is estimated that 1000 whales can produce roughly 500 tonnes of meat and blubber, and the pilot whale has thus been immensely important to the population of the islands down the ages. Source: Faroese Stamps |
| | First Day Cover (w Single Stamp) Long-finned Pilot Whale [540] |
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| | Stamp (mint) Long-finned Pilot Whale [539] | 419.83 RUR
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