Wind Energy Test Plant Sexbierum

    Netherlands  1986.03.04

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    Printing: multicoloral offset

  • Number by catalogue:  Michel: 1287   Yvert: 1257   Scott: 678   Gibbons: 1479  

    Perforation: Comb   Perforation type: 14x12 ¾

    Subject:

    70 cents.

    Wind generator, graph paper and clouds

    Additional:

    *Sexbierum (West Frisian: Seisbierrum) is a village in the municipality of Waadhoeke, in the central north of the Netherlands.

    Sexbierum is located in the province of Friesland and located about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north-east of Harlingen, about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north-west of Franeker. Distance to Amsterdam is about 100 kilometres (62.1 mi).

    The village consists of approximately 600 houses, with 1744 inhabitants in January 2014.

    In 1986, in the east of Sexbierum was launched the same name wind farm of 12 turbines.

    Also, the settlement is famous for its windmill De Korenaar, built in 1868.