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54<br />
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<strong>AUSTRALIAN</strong><br />
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Oceans are places of mystery and adventure - the<br />
last undiscovered places of our planet. Did you<br />
know that scientists know more about outer space<br />
than about the oceans? Astronauts have been to the<br />
moon, but no-one has ever gone to the bottom of<br />
the ocean.<br />
Although we know so little about the oceans, they<br />
make up nearly three-quarters of Earth. When you<br />
think about it, ‘Planet Ocean’ might be a better<br />
name for our planet!<br />
Planet Ocean is the special theme for Stamp<br />
Collecting Month this year. Check out the<br />
mini-sheet and read the descriptions of these<br />
Planet Ocean ‘aliens’ to learn more!<br />
The Weedy Seadragon is covered in armour-like plates<br />
which protect it from predators. The ‘weedy’ fins<br />
that it uses to move about the ocean also help<br />
it to hide among the seaweed.<br />
The Southern Right<br />
Whale is a ‘gentle<br />
giant’ of the ocean.<br />
With a call louder than a passing jet<br />
plane, it can communicate with other<br />
whales across an entire ocean.<br />
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The Manta Ray is one of the largest fish in the world. Despite<br />
its huge size it is an extremely graceful swimmer, capable of<br />
spectacular leaps above the surface.<br />
WEEDY SEADRAGON<br />
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MANTA RAY<br />
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SOUTHERN RIGHT WHALE<br />
WHITE POINTER SHARK<br />
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BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN<br />
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FIERY SQUID<br />
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Fiery Squids move by jet propulsion and constantly<br />
change colour like a light show. The<br />
underside of the Fiery Squid glows with small<br />
light organs which match the light from the sky<br />
above, making it invisible to predators below.<br />
The White Pointer Shark has five<br />
or more rows of teeth in each jaw.<br />
These teeth are constantly falling<br />
out and being replaced by more.<br />
Even its skin is packed with teeth!<br />
The Bottlenose Dolphin<br />
seems to be the<br />
happiest creature<br />
in the ocean; its<br />
curved mouth<br />
is held in a<br />
permanent<br />
grin. Like<br />
whales (and<br />
humans),<br />
dolphins<br />
are mammals - they breathe<br />
air, are warm blooded, and<br />
feed their young on milk.
Extended hard coral polyps<br />
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The Planet Ocean<br />
stamps are the first<br />
<strong>Australia</strong>n stamps<br />
to be designed<br />
using computer<br />
modelling. These<br />
illustrations show<br />
how designer<br />
Wayne Rankin<br />
created the<br />
White<br />
Pointer<br />
computer<br />
model.<br />
Wayne starts<br />
with a basic frame,<br />
just like a 3-D wire<br />
frame, except that<br />
it only exists on a<br />
computer screen.<br />
He builds up a<br />
realistic<br />
model<br />
with skin and<br />
teeth. Wayne<br />
places the model<br />
in a realistic<br />
background.<br />
Type is then<br />
added to the<br />
stamp design.<br />
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FIND OUT MORE!<br />
Listen to Take 40 <strong>Australia</strong> on<br />
Austereo radio and check out the<br />
<strong>Australia</strong>n Women’s Weekly for chances<br />
to win a trip for you and three friends<br />
to Seaworld in Queensland. Watch<br />
out for more about Planet Ocean and<br />
Stamp Collecting Month on your<br />
favourite TV shows including<br />
What’s Up Doc, Couch Potato,<br />
Totally Wild, Cheez TV<br />
and Saturday Disney!<br />
You can read more about computer<br />
modelling and the Planet Ocean<br />
stamps in Challenge magazine. There’s<br />
also a chance to win 10 Planet Ocean<br />
prize packs. Challenge is jam-packed<br />
with interesting activities and articles<br />
for kids aged 10 to 13! For info on<br />
how to subscribe, write to:<br />
Challenge magazine,<br />
Addison Wesley Longman,<br />
95 Coventry Street,<br />
SOUTH MELBOURNE VIC 3205.<br />
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CNIDARIANS<br />
MANTA RAY<br />
SOUTHERN RIGHT WHALE<br />
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WEEDY SEADRAGON<br />
A U S TRA LIA<br />
A U S TRA LIA<br />
A U STRAL IA<br />
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A U S TRA LIA<br />
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W HITE POINTER SHARK<br />
BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN<br />
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BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN<br />
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MASTERS OF<br />
STINGING<br />
SOUTHERN RIGHT WHAL E<br />
WEEDY SEADRAGON<br />
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ANDPARALYSIS<br />
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WHITE POINT ER SHARK<br />
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A UST RAL IA<br />
MANTA RAY<br />
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First day cover<br />
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The cnidarians (also known as the coelenterates)<br />
seem fairly inactive to the casual observer, are<br />
sometime sma l, and for these reasons often<br />
ignored by rock pool prowlers and divers. They<br />
are another extremely successful body plan and<br />
have populated the oceans of our world. Cnidarians<br />
are found in tropical, temperate and cold seas in<br />
huge numbers. They are the hydroids, sea ferns,<br />
sea whips, gorgonians, horny corals, red corals,<br />
soft corals, hard corals, black corals, sea pens,<br />
anemones, jellyfish, stingers - and many more.<br />
Cnidarians are simply constructed: a ho low<br />
cylindrical body with a mouth at one end su rounded<br />
by tentacles. The tentacles are genera ly armed<br />
with stinging capsules (ca led cnidoblasts, nematoblasts<br />
or nematocysts) in which a tightly coiled,<br />
spira ly barbed thread ends in a sharp point covered<br />
with toxin or, in some cases, a blob of adhesive.<br />
Woe betide any sma l creature that provokes the<br />
firing of these capsules, either by physical or<br />
chemical contact. The victim’s body wi l immediately<br />
be penetrated by many of these ‘harpoons’, which<br />
then contract and draw the victim towards the<br />
mouth. As this happens the now-paralysed prey<br />
makes contact with more waiting tentacles and<br />
so becomes thoroughly impaled, envenomed<br />
and eventua ly ingested and digested.<br />
The chemical weapons of cnidarians, so<br />
deadly, immobilise their victims immediately.<br />
If they did not, actively struggling prey could<br />
break the fine nematocys threads and<br />
escape. Arthropods, with their armoured<br />
external skeleton, are protected from the toxins,<br />
bu they are not safe. Cnidarians have developed<br />
a coiled spring style nematocyst for lassoing<br />
In addition to the use of barbed threads,<br />
toxins and lassoes to capture food, some cnidarians<br />
also contain sma l algae (zooxanthe lae) inside<br />
their clear bodies. These enclosed plants use the<br />
carbon dioxide and nitrogenous wastes produced<br />
during the respiration of the animal ce ls, together<br />
REG LIPSON<br />
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$5.80<br />
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BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN<br />
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FIERY SQUID<br />
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The Living<br />
Ocean<br />
$12.95<br />
From tiny microscopic creatures to<br />
enormous whales, this wonderful book<br />
covers everything you ever wanted to<br />
know about ocean creatures. Includes<br />
the Planet Ocean mini-sheet.<br />
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BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN<br />
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WEEDY SEADRAGON<br />
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W HITE POIN TER SH ARK<br />
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Maximum cards $5.50<br />
(set of 6)<br />
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M A N T A RA Y 1 98<br />
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AUSTRALIA<br />
All Planet Ocean products are available from 1 October 1998<br />
Giant poster/<br />
sticker book $9.95<br />
It looks like a book, but inside there’s a<br />
giant two-metre poster with more than 40<br />
stickers and facts about all your favourite<br />
marine animals!<br />
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Issue date: 2 November<br />
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Human Rights<br />
This stamp celebrates<br />
human rights. These<br />
include every person’s<br />
right to health and education, freedom from<br />
slavery, choice of religion, and the freedom<br />
to think and say the things they believe in.<br />
The rose growing from the barbed wire<br />
symbolises the strength of the human spirit.<br />
Issue date: 22 October 1998<br />
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Christmas<br />
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This year’s Christmas<br />
stamps show Mary<br />
and Joseph travelling<br />
to Bethlehem, the<br />
nativity scene, and<br />
the three kings who<br />
visited baby Jesus.<br />
These colourful<br />
stamps are by the<br />
famous <strong>Australia</strong>n<br />
painter Ken Done.<br />
His brightly<br />
coloured paintings,<br />
particularly his<br />
beach scenes and<br />
views of Sydney<br />
Harbour, are famous<br />
throughout the<br />
world.<br />
I wonder how you get to become a Planet<br />
Ocean explorer? A dog called Laika was one<br />
of the first travellers in outer space. They even<br />
put him on a stamp. Maybe we’re related and<br />
I could follow the family tradition and be the<br />
first explorer to the bottom of the ocean! I’d<br />
have a wonderful time chasing catfish!<br />
Even if I never get to be a great explorer,<br />
I enjoyed all of your Planet Ocean drawings.<br />
Here are some of my favourites.<br />
Love from<br />
Sniffer<br />
J. Wessener, 5 - KANDANGA QLD<br />
Brand new<br />
starter kit<br />
$14 . 95<br />
The Stamp Collecting Starter Kit<br />
has everything you need to get<br />
started: a stamp album with stickers,<br />
used stamps, tweezers, a magnifier,<br />
and a stamp facts booklet.<br />
DO YOUR FRIENDS<br />
A FAVOUR!<br />
Tell your friends how to join the Stamp<br />
Gang! All they need to do is send their<br />
name, address and date of birth to:<br />
STAMP EXPLORER<br />
PO BOX 4000<br />
FERNTREE GULLY VIC 3156<br />
Sniffer’s <br />
A.Boyle, 12 - BERRY SPRINGS NT<br />
WIN! WIN! WIN!<br />
LEGO <strong>Australia</strong> are giving<br />
Stamp Gang members the<br />
chance to win some great prizes:<br />
First prize - the entire LEGO<br />
SYSTEM Aquazone range, valued<br />
at $245.40, Aquazone Sea Scooters,<br />
valued at $18.95 each, will be the<br />
prizes for 50 runners up.<br />
Aquazone is a world in the ocean<br />
depths. Aquanauts and Aquasharks<br />
travel in fantastic submarine<br />
vehicles, sharing their world<br />
with octopuses, sharks and<br />
other marine animals.<br />
For your chance to win, draw<br />
us a stamp featuring the LEGO<br />
Aquanauts. Send your entry to:<br />
Stamp Explorer LEGO Competition<br />
PO BOX 1777Q<br />
MELBOURNE VIC 3001<br />
by 13 November. Don’t forget to<br />
include your name, age and<br />
membership number!<br />
M.Koeller, 12 - KIAMA NSW<br />
M. Newby, 10 - LARA VIC<br />
Other winners in the Planet Ocean stamp competition:<br />
L. Van Eedan, 12 - Panton Hill VIC K. Koh, 11 Doncaster East VIC<br />
K. Anderson, 12 - Windella Downs NSW K. Huynh, 12 Cabramatta West NSW<br />
A. Wong, 12 Peppermint Grove WA M. Amiri, 10 Frankston Nth VIC
WORD<br />
HUNT<br />
Solve this crossword<br />
to discover an animal<br />
from Planet Ocean<br />
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OUR NEXT ISSUE<br />
Watch the next issue for some<br />
great Year of the Rabbit stamps.<br />
There’ll also be something for<br />
romantics and adventurers!