Rock of Gibraltar - Gibraltar - Philatelic Photographs on Waymarking.com

This stamp depicts the Rock of Gibraltar from the point of view of the airport (with a plane on the tarmac)...a view everyone gets if you enter the British overseas territory by land. The 1953 red stamp has a depiction of Queen Elizabeth and the word "Airport".
The denomination indicated is 5d. which stands for 5 pence. (Gibralter later decimatized it's currency in 1973 at the same time as the UK.)

Wikipedia (visit link) informs us:

"The Rock of Gibraltar ... is a monolithic limestone promontory located in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, off the southwestern tip of Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. It is 426 m (1,398 ft) high. The Rock is Crown property of the United Kingdom, and borders Spain. Most of the Rock's upper area is covered by a nature reserve, which is home to around 250 Barbary macaques. These macaques, as well as a labyrinthine network of tunnels, attract a large number of tourists each year.

The Rock of Gibraltar was one of the Pillars of Hercules and was known to the Romans as Mons Calpe, the other pillar being Mons Abyla or Jebel Musa on the African side of the Strait. In ancient times the two points marked the limit to the known world, a myth originally fostered by the Phoenicians."

Stamp Issuing Country: Gibraltar Date of Issue: 1953 Denomination: 5 pence Color: red Stamp Type: Single Stamp Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]

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