CW world map stamp – Australia, 1937 was issued more than 80 years back with the map of the entire world on it.
About Australia
Australia is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world’s sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the Centre, tropical rainforests in the north-east, tropical savannas in the north, and mountain ranges in the south-east.
Surrounded by the Indian and Pacific oceans, Australia is separated from Asia by the Arafura and Timor seas, with the Coral Sea lying off the Queensland coast, and the Tasman Sea lying between Australia and New Zealand. The world’s smallest continent and sixth largest country by total area, Australia—owing to its size and isolation—is often dubbed the “island continent” and is sometimes considered the world’s largest island. Australia has 34,218 km of coastline (excluding all offshore islands), and claims an extensive Exclusive Economic Zone of 8,148,250 square kilo meters . This exclusive economic zone does not include the Australian Antarctic Territory.
About common wealth of Australia
On January 1, 1901, six colonies were joined together to create the Commonwealth of Australia, a self-governing Dominion in the British Empire. While the new nation was sovereign when it came to its domestic affairs, the United Kingdom maintained control over its relations with the wider world.
Over the next four decades, Australia gradually gained control over its external policy. The Balfour Declaration of 1926, issued at the end of the Imperial Conference held in London that year, recognized that the United Kingdom and the Dominions were “autonomous Communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs.”
In December 1931, the United Kingdom approved the Statute of Westminster, codifying this relationship; the statute specified, however, that its provisions would not come into effect until formally adopted by the government of Australia. On October 9, 1942, Australia’s Statute of Westminster Adoption Act became law. The act was made effective retroactive to September 3, 1939, the date of “the Commencement of the War between His Majesty the King and Germany.”
About the stamp
This stamp was issued in 1937 to represent the common wealth of Australia and its significance in the world map.