Finland 2007 – International Polar Year
Finland issued this beautiful and intricate mini-sheet in January 2007 to mark
the start of the International Polar Year, a multinational research project
that ran from March 2007 to March 2009. The sheet was perforated to create two
overlapping stamps. One stamp encompasses part of the background image of an
aurora arcing over a snowy landscape, while the other features a close-up of a
snowflake. A glittering hologram of a snowflake fills the square where the two
stamps overlap. The background picture of the aurora was taken by Finnish
photographer Pekka Luukkola in Kittila, northern Finland.
Iceland, Greenland, Canada, USA, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark also produced stamp
issues for the International Polar Year, although only those of Finland and the
US featured aurorae.
Note: The sheet has an SG catalogue number but the individual stamps within it
do not.
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