The Northern Ireland stamps for March 2004 are the second of four ‘British Journey’ issues from Royal Mail depicting photographs of Britain’s landscapes.
The province of Northern Ireland contains a remarkable diversity of landscapes, moulded by volcanic upheaval some 60 million years ago and subsequently etched by glaciers. Dotted across the landscape are imprints of the many peoples who have settled here over the past 9,000 years.
The raw splendour of nature’s legacies is evident everywhere, from the sparse moorlands of the Sperrins in the northwest to the Mourne’s granite peaks, the island-studded Strangford Lough to the famous Giant's Causeway in the Northeast where thousands of basalt columns form a series of 'stepping stones'.
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