Tristan da Cunha Resettlement 1963 Overprint
St. Helena Definitives of 1961 Overprinted for the Resettlement of Tristan da Cunha.
On April 9, 1963 fifty-one islanders from Tristan da Cunha returned to their island on the S.S. Boissevain. The new administrator who accompanied them had the Post Office reopened and on April 12, 1963, Tristan da Cunha issued a set of thirteen definitives from St. Helena overprinted "Tristan da Cunha Resettlement 1963". The post office had been closed since October 11, 1961.
The population of Tristan Da Cunha was evacuated on the Dutch ship M.V. Tjisadane
On October 9, 1961 a volcanic eruption had occured which precipitated the evacuation of the population of the island aboard a Dutch ship, the M.V. Tjisadane, two days later. The volcano had been dormant since before the island's discovery by the Portuguese Admiral Tristao da Cunha in 1506.
