List of people on the postage stamps of the Cook Islands

This is a list of people on stamps issued by the Cook Islands and its constituent islands of Aitutaki and Penrhyn Island.

Cook Islands

1932 Cook Islands James Cook 1d stamp

Aitutaki

Penrhyn

Four 1/- Penrhyn stamps of c. 1917

The first stamps issued by this tiny island in the Northern Cook Islands were stamps of New Zealand overprinted "Penrhyn Island" in 1902. It continued to use its own stamps until 1932. This first short list is from stamps in that early period.

Between 1932 and 1973 Penrhyn used the stamps of the Cook Islands. It resumed the use of its own stamps in 1973, and continues to do so.

See also

References

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