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Rabaul Town with Tavurvur (Active) and Vulcan (Dormant) (Papua New Guinea)
Unused 4-7/8″ x 6-3/4″ Hyndsight views card No. 6, similar stamp area to others. It’s the caption that calls Tavurvur “Active” and Vulcan “Dormant”, though with both having erupted in 1994, it might be too soon to write Vulcan off. Grade: 1
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Vunapope, Rabaul – Vulcan and Tavurvur erupting in 1994 (Papua New Guinea)
Unused 4-7/8″ x 6-3/4″ Hyndsight views card No. 14, similar stamp area to others. Grade: 1
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Rabaul, Tavurvur Active Volcano giving a little Puff (Papua New Guinea)
Unused 4-7/8″ x 6-3/4″ Hyndsight views card No. 1, similar stamp area to others. We like it that the publishers could still find some humour in the whole situation. Grade: 1
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East New Britain Province, multiple views (Papua New Guinea)
Top left: Tolai Tumbuan. Top right: Baining Firedance. Bottom: Twin Volcanoes in Rabaul 1994 Eruption. Unused 4-7/8″ x 6-3/4″ Hyndsight views card No. 17. Grade: 1
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Scenic areas (set of four) (Indonesia)
Our scan shows all or part of the four unused cards in this set, issued officially by Pos Indonesia. The volcano bringing the set into this category is Mt. Bromo. Grade: 1
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Geoparque Açores (Maximum Cards) (set of four) (Azores)
Set of four official maximum cards (references BPA – 190 through 193), captioned in Portuguese and issued in 2017. Grade: 1
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Yenchao Badland Geopark (set of six+) (Taiwan)
We need to explain. We have two of these sets, in their original envelopes. One has been opened and one is still sealed, so we don’t verify what’s inside. The six basic cards, of which you see three in the scan, are very high-quality real-photo cards captioned in Chinese and English, and with significant explanations of natural phenomena on the reverses. The reason we need to explain is because the open set also includes one more unused card, calligraphy we can’t read at all, with no English caption or explanation. We do not know if this card was added to the opened pack later, or if it would also appear in the sealed pack. Therefore one set has seven cards and the other may only have six, we don’t know. There you go. Both sets are the same price and both sets are Grade: 1.
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Umi-Jigoku and Victoria Amazonica (Japan)
If the volcanic hot spring in Beppu doesn’t leave you breathless, the twin (or triple) captions will. Mailed in 1987, with two different stamps and postmark. Grade: 1
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Isla de Lanzarote
Unused card whose trilingual caption says (in English): “Timanfaya – Camel’s excursion between volcanoes and lava”. Grade: 1
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Owakidani (sic) (Japan)
Ōwakudani (大涌谷, lit. “Great Boiling Valley“), and not “Owakidani” as the card’s caption has it, is a volcanic valley with active sulphur vents and hot springs in Hakone. It was created around 3,000 years ago as a result of the explosion of the Hakone volcano. It’s a popular tourist site for scenic views, volcanic activity, and kuro-tamago (黒卵, lit. “black egg”) — a local specialty of eggs hard-boiled in the hot springs they turn black and smell slightly sulphuric, and eating one is said to add seven years to your life. (How fast can we get there?) Unused old postcard with a longer Japanese caption on the reverse. Grade: 1
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Mount Ngaruahoe National Park (New Zealand)
The Wikipedia entry for this volcano is interesting. Here’s a condensed snippet: “In 1974, as part of a promotional campaign for his sponsor, skier Jean-Claude Killy was filmed skiing down the previously unskied eastern slope … The average slope on this side of the volcano is 35 degrees, and Killy was caught on radar skiing more than 100 miles per hour. As he fell on the first run, he did the descent twice. He used helicopters to access the mountain top when the last eruption had been the day before, and an eruption occurred at the end of his final run. Mount Ngauruhoe was used as a stand-in for the fictional Mount Doom in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, achieving worldwide exposure …” Go visit! The postcard was mailed in or about 1976, judging from the dated postage stamp, with airmail sticker and indistinct postmark. A nice card. Grade: 1
