Overview
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) aims to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world. Twenty Australian sites have been inscribed on the World Heritage List, including the three featured in this issue.
Technical specifications
- Issue date
- 6 May 2025
- Issue withdrawal date
- 1 December 2025
- Denomination
- 3 x $1.50
- Stamp & product design
- Jason Watts, Australia Post Design Studio
- Paper: gummed
- Tullis Russell 104gsm Red Phosphor/Blue PVA Stamp Paper
- Printer: gummed
- RA Printing
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp size (mm)
- 26 x 37.5
- Perforations
- 13.86 x 14.5
- Sheet layout
- Module of 50 (2 x 25)
- FDI postmark
- Canberra, ACT 2601
- FDI withdrawal date
- 4 June 2025
$1.50 K’gari, Qld
K’gari, formerly called Fraser Island, lies off the Queensland coast and is the largest sand island in the world. Inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1992, K’gari contains half the world’s perched freshwater dune lakes, including Boorangoora, represented on the stamp.
The photograph on the stamp is by Guille/stock.adobe.com
$1.50 Lord Howe Island Group, NSW
The Lord Howe Island Group lies in the Tasman Sea, east of Port Macquarie, New South Wales. The island group was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1982 as an outstanding example of oceanic islands of volcanic origin containing a unique biota of plants and animals, as well as the world’s most southerly true coral reef. The stamp features Lord Howe Island, by far the largest island in the group, from the top of Malabar Hill.
The photograph on the stamp is by Peter Unger/Stone via Getty Images
$1.50 Macquarie Island, Tas
Subantarctic Macquarie Island is situated about 1,500 kilometres south-south-east of Tasmania. It was listed as a World Heritage Area in 1997. It is one of the few places in the world where the oceanic crust is exposed above the surface of the sea. Vast congregations of wildlife breed or nest on the island, including the endemic Royal Penguin and the Elephant Seal, both shown on the stamp at Sandy Bay.
The photograph on the stamp is by Janelle Lugge/ Shutterstock.com
