The Passat Windjammer Ship from The Aland Maritime Museum

Segel beslias pa Passat under sista resan runt

Kap Horn ar 1949

Alands sjofartsmuseum

Translation from Swedish:

Sails being set on the Passat during the last voyage around Cape Horn in 1949

Aland Maritime Museum

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This postcard was postmarked in 2026 with an Aland Sailing stamp. 

Aland Islands Postcrossing Meet-up with Artist Autograph

Postcrossing
Aland Islands
7-9 &10 June 2017

Greetings from Postcrossing meetup!

Illustration: Ammi Krogius
(The artist also designed the stamp and autographed the front of this postcard!)

This postcard was signed by 18 members of the meeting and has a Postcrossing stamp from Aland on the front and on the back of the card.

Aland stamp 2017

Postcrossing mote pa Aland

(Postcrossing on Aland)

Seagulls with Postcards and a lighthouse

Artist: Ammi Krogius

Jars-NATO Archipelago in Aland

 Photo: Niklas Bidarkiv

The sender writes that this is Nato, Alandia and that there are beautiful spring flowers all around but very little butterflies.  

This is postmarked in 2016. 

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Järsö-NATO is an archipelago area in Åland. Jarso has a population of 201, and Nato has 87 people (as of 2015). 

Aland stamp 2015

Sailing Ships

Varlden, 1.20

Wilhelmina "Mimmi" Widbom, Professional Seafarer

Foto: Alands Sjofarts Museum (Maritime Museum) - Peter Ostberg

This is postmarked in 2016 with two stamps from Aland.  Check out the matching stamp!

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Serafina Wilhelmina “Mimmi” Widbom was a professional seafarer. She worked as cook and chief steward on several of Åland shipowner Gustaf Erikson’s ships in the early 1900s. She rounded Cape Horn eight times and made her last voyage as an active sailor in 1943.

Aland stamp 2015

Europa

Mimmi Widbon, 1,20 

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Aland stamp 2011

Aland Scenery

Rocks by the Ocean

Inrikes (domestic rate)

Inge Look - Maximum Card with Stamp from Aland

Maximikort nr / Maksimikortti nro / Maximum card no. 70
Utgivningsdag / Ilmestymispaiva / Dave of issue: 8.10.2010

Illustration / Kuvitus Illustration: Ing Look
Frimarke / Postimerkki / Stamp: Ing Look

so the picture and the Aland Stamp are illustrated by Inge Look

Click on the "Inge Look" tag on the right to see more of these two old ladies  :D

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Aland has its own flag, postage stamps and vehicle registration plates.
It is made up of more than 6500 islands and has a population of approximately 27,000 people.

Eckero, Aland

Halsningar fran Eckero, Aland

(Greetings from Eckero)

Postmarked in 2011 with two Aland stamps

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Eckerö is a municipality of Åland. It has a population of 952 (31 January 2011)  and covers an area of 752.63 square kilometres (290.59 sq mi) of which 644.94 km2 (249.01 sq mi) is water. The population density is 8.84 inhabitants per square kilometre (22.9 /sq mi).

Eckerö's most famous building is the Post and Customs house. It is the largest and most impressive building that has been erected to aid the postal services between Stockholm and St. Petersburg. The building was built during the Russian times in 1828.

Aland

Posten Aland, Frimarken

Fotograf: Robert Jansson

postmarked in 2011 with an Aland stamp from 2009

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The Åland Islands form an archipelago in the Baltic Sea. They are situated at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia and form an autonomous, demilitarised, monolingually Swedish-speaking region of Finland. The islands collectively constitute the smallest region of Finland.

Aland's Motto: "Islands of Peace" 

Aland stamp 2009
Martti Ahtissaari
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Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland (1994–2000), Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work.