HERITAGE ISSUE the SHIPS 1990 NEW ZEALAND.

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This issue titled 1990 'The Ships' was another in the 'Heritage' stamp series leading up to the 1990 150th anniversary celebrations in New Zealand.
Issue information
The stamps were a salute to the vessels that brought Polynesian voyagers, settlers, and the other immigrants that determined our ancestry. From voyaging canoes to steamships, this craft carried the first New Zealanders through unchartered waters to an unseen landfall across the world.
The Maori arrival shrouded by time is still the subject of conjecture and investigation as no written language existed. The stories of age-old voyages and landfalls were handed down orally from generation to generation and such oral tradition is always open to interpretation and challenge. However, the story of European discovery goes back only three hundred years and is totally documented. Many European New Zealanders look back to forebears who braved passage on sailing ships that came halfway around the world.
Using only basic celestial navigation, these ships were among the craft that transformed our island nation. From the frail vessels of Abel Tasman to the sturdy ships of Cook's age, on to the swift and beautiful clippers, and finally to steam, which spelled the end of sail. Each craft shown played an important and historic part in New Zealand's discovery and settlement.
The FDC shows the ships on the stamps, and on the left the two ships of Abel Tasman the ZEEHAEN and HEEMSKERCK.

https://collectables.nzpost.co.nz/1990- ... the-ships/

HEEMSKERCK AND ZEAHAEN: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11897
MAORI VOYAGE CANOE: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11178
ENDEAVOUR HMS: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7786
TORY: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10097
CRUSADER: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8988
EDWIN FOX: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10096
ARAWA: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6670

New Zealand 1990 FDC.