#49: First postcard from Australia

Map of Australia

Duck-billed platypus, Car and River stamps

Received from Tiffany from Rhodes. 

Australia is neighboured by Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.

#40: Second postcard from Russia

Prayer flags near Mt. Belukha

Great stamps

Received from Anna from Russia through the Postcrossing website.

From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, Belarus,Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the US across the Bering Strait.