Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, a Russian Officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, participated in the first Russian circum-navigation expedition which discovered the Continent of Antarctica on this day (27-Jan) in the year 1820...
The cartographer and explorer, Fabian was commemorated by the Estonian Postal Administration with the release of a 8-Estonian kroon postage stamp in the year 2003 to mark his 225th birth anniversary...
Stamp features the wordings "1778 Saaremaa" which represents "1778 Saare county of present day Estonia", place where Fabian was born and "1852 Kroonlinn" which represents "1852 Kroonlinn area of St. Petersburg", city where Fabian died...
This stamp can be collected under the themes:
(a) Explorers...
(b) Admirals...
(c) Ships...
(d) Map...
(e) Imperial Russian Navy...
(f) Anniversaries...
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