The motive is a musk ox bull, and the stamp is issued by the Greenland postal provider, POST, which is a division of the Self Government’s TELE GREENLAND A/S group. POST runs Filatelia which issues the Greenland stamps.

To the magazine ‘Greenland Collector’ Lars Holst Hansen describes the motive of the stamp and Zackenberg Research Station:

“The photo of the musk ox bull is from the national park in North-East Greenland – the world’s largest with its 972,000 square kilometres. Here, I work as a field biologist at the Zackenberg Research Station. To work and stay in the middle of the world’s largest national park provide one with a unique opportunity to come close to nature and animal life. You have the possibility of learning the routines of individual animals and the animals, on their part, may get accustomed to your presence. However, this particular photo was taken using a so-called camera trap so I was not actually near the animal or the camera at the moment when the picture was taken.”

Read the unabbreviated version of Lars Holst Hansen’s story in the subscription magazine for collectors of Greenland stamps ”Greenland Collector” (in Danish)

Contact : Biologist Lars Holst Hansen, tel. +45 8715 8682, lahh@dmu.dk
              DCE – Danish Centre for Environment and Energy
              Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University