East Timor

U.N. New York, Page 2002.1 (BL-2)

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East Timor, or rather Timor-Leste is located in the Pacific Ocean in Southeast Asia, north of Australia and south east Indonesia on the eastern half of the island, Timor. With fifty-seven hundred square miles of land, it has a population of about one-million three-hundred fifty thousand. It has been inhabited for over forty-two thousand years and was a Portugese colony from the 16th Century until 1975. It became a member of the U.N. in September 2002.

It’s name seems redundant, but has some logic to it. Timor in the Malay language means, east. It was named as such because it was the big island to the east. The island is composed of two nations, West Timor in the west and Timor-Leste in the east. The word L’est is Portugese, which is an official language of the nation, and means the east. So it’s name is basically, The Eastern part of the big island in the East. It’s all relative.

Note

The two stamps at each end of the first row of this album page commemorate East Timor joining the U.N. With perhaps less fan fare is the stamp in the middle of the same row. It commemorates Switzerland joining finally – despite having U.N. offices in Geneva since 1946, and being the headquarters for its predecessor, the League of Nations since the early 1930s.

Contains 7 spots: own 7 – 7 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot	own	catalog	subject	description	comment
1.1	✓	822	East Timor	34 (may 2002) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	817	Children & Stamps	80 (mar 2002) definitive, multicolor
1.3	✓	823	East Timor	57 (may 2002) comm., multicolor

Endangered Species

2.1	✓	818	Hoffmanns Two-Toed Sloth	34 (apr 2002) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	819	Bighorn Sheep	34 (apr 2002) comm., multicolor
3.1	✓	820	Cheetah	34 (apr 2002) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	821	San Esteban Island Chuckwalla	34 (apr 2002) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

• Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).

• Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.

• Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.

• To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.

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