Category Archives: Lighthouses

2020 Taiwan Lighthouse Stamps

On 23 Nov 2020, Taiwan’s Chunghwa Post issued a set of five lighthouse stamps. This is the third set in this series that began in 2018. Each of the stamps is available in sheets of 18 and the sheet has an image of the lighthouse at the lower right corner. An example of the sheets is shown here but to see the other three sheets click on the link at the bottom of this post.

Chiutzu Shan L/H | 23 Nov 2020

Chiutzu Shan Lighthouse was built as a rear range light for the approach to Keelung harbor but has been inactive since 1991 when the alignment of the channel was changed

Guosheng Kang L/H | 23 Nov 2020

Guoshen Lighthouse is located northwest of Tianan.

Beiding L/H | 23 Nov 2020

Beiding Lighthouse is located on a small island in the Taiwan Strait near the Chinese mainland. Because of it’s location and restricted ability, I have not found a photograph of this light.

Hualien L/H | 23 Nov 2020

Hualien Lighthouse is located in the downtown area of the city of the same name. It is another of the rather unremarkable skeleton tower lights celebrated in this series.

Taiping Dao L/H | 23 Nov 2020

Taping Dao Lighthouse  is located in the Spratly Island chain in the South China Sea between Vietnam and the Philippines and is a very new lighthouse having been built in 2015.

Chiutzu Shan L/H | 23 Nov 2020

This is a sample of one of the 18-stamp sheets from this set. To see the others, click on the link below.

See more lighthouse stamps from Taiwan here.

2020 Estonia Lighthouse Stamp

**Updated with additional information 11/28/2020

This is incredible! Eesti Post has issued another stamp in it’s long-running lighthouse series. This is the 21st consecutive year that Estonia has issued at least one stamp in this series. On 30 Oct 2020, this stamp was issued showing Kihnu Lighthouse which is located at the south end of Kihnu Island in the northeastern part of the Gulf of Riga. The lighthouse was built of modular iron plates in England and assembled on site in 1864.

Kihnu L/H | 29 Oct 2020 | C3596

Kihnu L/H | 29 Oct 2020 | C3596

Michael Ellison provided the following images of front and back of the information card that came with his order from Eesti Post. Thanks Michael!

Kihnu L/H | 29 Oct 2020 | C3596

Kihnu L/H | 29 Oct 2020 | C3596

Thanks Jaap, another great find.

See more lighthouse stamps from Estonia here.