Bulgaria
Bulgaria issued a set of six in 1990 showing famous seafarers including
a 60st stamp showing Cook and a ship. The stamp was repeated along with the
rest of the set in a miniature sheet.
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Bulgaria |
17/01/1990 |
Famous Seafarers |
Magyarország
The landlocked nation of Hungary issued a miniature sheet featuring
Cook in 1978, and in 1987 issued a stamp commemorating Antarctic research.
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Magyar Posta |
09/06/1978 |
Famous Navigators |
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Magyar Posta |
30/06/1987 |
75th Anniversary of Antarctic Research |
Rossija
Cook's Third Voyage
Cook's last forays into the Arctic Ocean were along the coast of East Siberia. The news of Cook's death in Hawaii first reached Britain after Clerke had taken over command of the expedition and they had stopped in Kamchatka. This was and still is an easterly outpost of the Russian Empire and famed for giant brown bears and swarms of mosquitoes. It is also on the Ring of Fire that encircles the Pacific making it one of the most volcanically active places on earth.
I don't believe Russia or the USSR ever issued any stamps connected with Cook, although there is an unofficial local overprint from about 1993 from the region of Vorkuta. I have heard that the stamp listed as 5672 by Scott is something to do with Cook, but I don't have a catalogue. Russia issued a commemorative coin featuring Cook in the early 1990s.
Shqiperia
The Albanian spelling of James Cook is Xheims Kuk. The portrait of him
on the 1995 stamp, shows him with a very large nose. It's a wonder anyone ever
realised it was supposed to be him.
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Shqiperia |
14/09/1995 |
Polar Explorers |