#47: Second postcard from Argentina

Aconcagua

Football, plane and Eleodora Marenco stamps

Received from Rubén from San Juan. Please check out his blog here.

Argentina was the first country to adopt fingerprinting as a method of identification.

#153: Third postcard from the Cayman Islands

Seven Mile Beach

Mathusalem stamp

Received from Maria from Windsor, Canada.

The Cayman Islands are the most popular destination for Atlantic hurricanes.

#187: First postcard from Anguilla

Sunset at Sandy Ground

Rose Millicent stamp

Received from Nori from Anguilla. Please check out her blog here.

Anguilla lies east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin.

#98: Fourth postcard from Malaysia

Langkawi Island

Bunga Tiga Bulan stamp

Received from Salah from the United Arab Emirates. Please check out his blog here.

"Tun" is the most senior federal title in Malaysia and there can be no more than 25 living recipients at any one time.

#153: Second postcard from the Cayman Islands

Hell

Ship stamp

Received from Maria from Windsor, Canada.

The banana orchid is the national flower of the Cayman Islands.

#136: Third postcard from Sint Maarten

Caribbean Princess

Harbour stamp

Received from Monika from Hastings, Barbados. Please check out her blog here.

Sint Maarten occupies the southern portion of the Island of Saint Martin, named by Columbus after Saint Martin of Tours.

#183: First postcard from the Solomon Islands

U.S. War Memorial at Skyline Ridge Guadalcanal

Commemorative, parrot, boat and butterfly stamps

Received from Rod from Riverwood, Australia. Please check out his blog here.

The Solomon Islands are east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu.

#178: Second postcard from Malta

Map of Malta

Ship stamp

Received from Claudia from Birkirkara.

Malta's national dog is the Pharaoh Hound Dog. In Maltese, the breed is called Kelb tal-Fenek.

#136: Second postcard from Sint Maarten

Map of Saint Martin

Boat stamp

Received from Victor from Caguas, Puerto Rico.

Sint Maarten occupies the southern portion of the Island of Saint Martin, named by Columbus after Saint Martin of Tours.

#178: First postcard from Malta

The coat of arms of Malta

Ship stamp

Received from Silvan from Għaxaq.

Malta is 50 miles south of Sicily, 176 miles east of Tunisia, and 207 miles north of Libya.

#33: First postcard from Puerto Rico

Cruise ship at Old San Juan

Apple stamp

Received from Tommy from San Juan.

Puerto Rico is west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.

#161: First cover from Rarotonga

Helliconia Rostrata and vaka motu stamps

Received from Jone from Muri.

The Cook Islands lie between Niue, American Samoa, Tokelau, Kiribati, and French Polynesia.

#143: First postcard from Sri Lanka

Festive

Aviation, people and architecture stamps

Received from Sarath from Kadugannawa.

Sri Lanka has maritime borders with India to the northwest and the Maldives to the southwest.

#15: Third postcard from Spain

Church of Saint Joan de Boi

King Carlos, train and fish stamps

Received from Rosa from Lleida.

There are four official languages in Spain (Castilian, Catalan, Basque and Galician), three unofficial regional languages (Asturian, Aragonese and Aranese), and several more dialects of these languages (Andalucian, Valencian, etc.).

#6: First cover from Brazil

Trumpet, sailing ships and scooter stamps

Received from Ana Regina from Santana.

Brazilian women attained the right to vote in 1931, before women in Switzerland, France, Italy.

#113: Third postcard from French Southern and Antarctic Lands

Great albatross

Le mischief, tortoise and Marion Dufresne (?) stamps

Received from Wenceslas from the Alfred Faure Base.

The French Southern and Antarctic Lands consist of Kerguelen, Saint Paul and Amsterdam, Crozet Islands, Adélie Land and the Scattered Islands and are located in the Southern Indian Ocean.

#113: Second postcard from French Southern and Antarctic Lands

Alfred Faure Base and fauna of TAAF multiviews

Fauna/transport and TAAF flag stamps

Received from Serge from the Alfred Faure Base. Please check out his blog here.

The French Southern and Antarctic Lands consist of Kerguelen, Saint Paul and Amsterdam, Crozet Islands, Adélie Land and the Scattered Islands and are located in the Southern Indian Ocean.

#113: First postcard from French Southern and Antarctic Lands

King Penguins

Colin Austral, Tortoise and Marion Dufresne (?) stamps with nice hand-stamps

Received from Wenceslas from the Alfred Faure Base.

The French Southern and Antarctic Lands consist of Kerguelen, Saint Paul and Amsterdam, Crozet Islands, Adélie Land and the Scattered Islands and are located in the Southern Indian Ocean.

#40: Fifth postcard from Russia

Windmill

Rabbit, moose and boat stamps

Received from Angelina from Stavropol 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.

#80: Second postcard from Iceland

Flag of Iceland

Post delivery vehicle

Received from Arnold from Bellaire, Texas.

Iceland marks the juncture between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.