Stamps

Over 400 stamps have been issued world-wide relating directly to Captain Cook and many other places he visited, birds he saw, etc. A chronological list of the directly-related stamps has been published in Cook's Log.

A personal list by the late Brian Sandford, containing over 600 stamps, private labels and prestamped envelopes.
It was last updated December 2011.
This list can be viewed/downloaded by clicking here.

A list of stamps depicting some of the Fauna, Flora and Birds encountered during the Voyages was compiled by the late Ad de la Mar in 2000.
Click here to view the Introduction.
Click here to view Part 1 Fauna.
Click here to view Part 2 Flora.
Click here to view Part 3 Birds.

Some of the articles about stamps published in Cook's Log are available to be read below.

Click here to jump to articles about stamps issued since 2010

The Arrangement of a Cook Stamp Collection
How one member organises his stamp collection

Australia's 1970 Cook Stamp Issue
The designs of the six stamps depicting important aspects of Cook's voyage along the east coast of Australia.

Georg Forster and His Antarctic Research Station
Philatelic items related to George Forster, who sailed with his father on Cook's Second Voyage

Endeavour Hills Post Office
Two postmarks from the only postal district in Australia with the word Endeavour

Pacific Explorers before Cook
Some of the Pacific explorers who preceded Cook, and appear on stamps

Torres Map
A Papua New Guinea stamp depicts a Portuguese Map of the 17th Century showing the course of the Spanish navigator Luis Vaez de Torres in 1606.

Elwood Etter's Cook Covers - Part 1
A list of 117 covers produced by Elwood Etter withspecial cachets for the 200th anniversary of Cook's Third Voyage of 1776 to 1780.

Elwood Etter's Cook Covers - Part 2
Additions, corrections and minor differences to the listing that appears in Part 1.

Elwood Etter's Cook Covers - Part 3
Additions to the list of covers produced by Elwood Etter that appear in Part 1 and Part 2.

Elwood Etter's Cook Covers - Part 4
More additions to the lists of Elwood Etter covers that appeared in Parts 1, 2 and 3.,

Stamps issued in 2019
French Polynesia - 12 April 2019
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands - 15 August 2019
New Zealand - 2 October 2019

Stamps issued in 2018
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands – 5 February, 2018
Papua New Guinea – 19 February 2018
Great Britain – 16 August 2018

Stamps issued in 2010
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands - 12 April 2010
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands - 30 September 2010
Chad, Djibouti, Mali, Rwanda - 2010

Stamps

Stamps

The Arrangement of a Cook Stamp Collection
How one member organises his stamp collection

Australia's 1970 Cook Stamp Issue
The designs of the six stamps depicting important aspects of Cook's voyage along the east coast of Australia.

Georg Forster and His Antarctic Research Station
Philatelic items related to George Forster, who sailed with his father on Cook's Second Voyage

Endeavour Hills Post Office
Two postmarks from the only postal district in Australia with the word Endeavour

Pacific Explorers before Cook
Some of the Pacific explorers who preceded Cook, and appear on stamps

Torres Map
A Papua New Guinea stamp depicts a Portuguese Map of the 17th Century showing the course of the Spanish navigator Luis Vaez de Torres in 1606.

Elwood Etter's Cook Covers - Part 1
A list of 117 covers produced by Elwood Etter withspecial cachets for the 200th anniversary of Cook's Third Voyage of 1776 to 1780.

Elwood Etter's Cook Covers - Part 2
Additions, corrections and minor differences to the listing that appears in Part 1.

Elwood Etter's Cook Covers - Part 3
Additions to the list of covers produced by Elwood Etter that appear in Part 1 and Part 2.

Elwood Etter's Cook Covers - Part 4
More additions to the lists of Elwood Etter covers that appeared in Parts 1, 2 and 3.,

Stamps issued in 2023
Australian Antarctic Territory – 22 August 2023
French Polynesia - 15 December 2023

Stamps issued in 2022
France - 14 March 2022
French Southern and Antarctic Territories – 23 June 2022

Stamps issued in 2020
Australia - 29 April 2020

Stamps issued in 2019
French Polynesia - 12 April 2019
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands - 15 August 2019
New Zealand - 2 October 2019

Stamps issued in 2018
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands – 5 February, 2018
Papua New Guinea – 19 February 2018
Great Britain – 16 August 2018

Stamps issued in 2017
Pitcairn Islands – 9 December, 2017

Stamps issued in 2015
South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands - 5 January 2015
Australia - 15 May 2015

Stamps issued in 2013
Jersey - 8 August 2013

Stamps issued in 2012
French Polynesia - 13 December 2012

Stamps issued in 2011
New Zealand - 20 August 2011

Stamps issued in 2010
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands - 12 April 2010
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands - 30 September 2010
Chad, Djibouti, Mali, Rwanda - 2010

Stamps issued in 2009
British Indian Ocean Territory - 9 March 2009
Kiribati - 9 March 2009
Kiribati - 20 July 2009

Stamps issued in 2008
Marshall Islands – 2 April 2008
New Zealand – 6 August 2008
British Antarctic Territory – 17 November 2008

Stamps issued in 2007
Canada – 22 June 2007