Queen Elizabeth II Pictorials. Independence Definitive Issue with OVP

    Rhodesia  1966.01.17

    In issue: Stamp(s): 15   

    Printing: photogravure

  • Number by catalogue:  Michel: 18   Yvert: 124   Scott: 217   Gibbons: 368  

    Perforation: Comb   Perforation type: 13 ½x13 ½

    Subject:

    2 Southern Rhodesia shillings.

    Kyle Reservoir with dam and hydroelectric station
    Stamp from Southern Rhodesia 1964 definitive issue overprinted "INDEPENDENCE 11th November 1965" in black

    Additional:

    Lake Mutirikwi, originally known as Lake Kyle or Kyle Dam, lies in south eastern Zimbabwe, south east of Masvingo. It is thought to have been named after Kyle Farm which occupied most of the land required for the lake, which in turn was named after the Kyle district in Scotland from which the pioneer of the Lowveld, Tom Murray MacDougall came originally.

     

    The lake covers about 90 km2 (35 sq mi) and was created in 1960 with the construction of the Kyle Dam on the Mutirikwi River. The dam was built by Concor to provide water to the farming estates on the lowveld to the southwest, around the town of Triangle, where the main crop has been sugar cane.