Australia
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Occasion: 2002 Winter Olympics,2002,Salt Lake City,United States
Width: 220 mm
Height: 110 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume II
Stamp ID = 6002
Cachet shows the 1980 gold medal winning ice hockey team lighting the Olympic Flame at the start of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.
Australia (1902-)
An island continent between the Pacific and Indian oceans, southeast of Asia. British settlement began in the late 18th century, with six colonies developing - New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. Each of these states initially issued its own stamps. These colonies united to form the Commonwealth of Australia on Jan. 1, 1901, although each continued to issue its own stamps for a number of years.