Tenerife Teide & Icod de los Vinos John Hinde card

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Tenerife-  "in the distance the mass of Teide (12,195 ft) and to the fore the poetic green landscape of the Icod de Los Vinos with a typical winepress where the countryfolk make their wine"
• Publisher:  John Hinde Ltd., Dublin
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  25pta green [unfranked]
• Postmark(s):  no
• Sent to:  Cottenham, Cambridge
• Notes & Key words: 

John Hinde was an English photographer who set up John Hinde Ltd in Dublin, ireland in the early 1960s. He produced most of the earlier cards himself before employing other photogaphers such as E.Nägele, E. Ludwig, D. Noble and other names who spent a long time getting just the right view, usually with people in the foreground. The prints were then artistically hand processed and manipulated in Italy (long before digital production) before being published. His company was also closely associated with Butlins and they produced many of their cards. The company’s cards have become popular with collectors in recent years due to exhibitions and being featured in books, particularly by photographer and postcard collector Martin Parr. They were influential in the development of commercial photography and postcard images and now are regarded as miniature works of art and social records in themselves, particularly those of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Mount Teide or, in Spanish, Pico del Teide ['piko ðel 'tejðe] is the highest elevation of Spain and the islands of the Atlantic (it is the third largest volcano in the world from its base). It is an active volcano which last erupted in 1909 from the El Chinyero vent on the Santiago (northwestern) rift and is located on Tenerife, Canary Islands. The volcano and its surroundings comprise the Teide National Park (Parque Nacional del Teide in Spanish). The park has an area of 18900 hectares and was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on June 29, 2007.^[1] It is also from the end of 2007 one of the Twelve Treasures of Spain. Territorially belongs to the municipality of La Orotava. El Teide was a mythological mountain with Aboriginal reministencias Guanches, like Mount Olympus to the ancient greeks. El Teide, the island of Tenerife was in 2008 the most visited National Park of four at their disposal the Canary Islands with a total of 2.8 million visitors, according to the Instituto Canario de Estadística (ISTAC).^[2] Teide is one of the most famous natural icons not only in Tenerife but throughout the Canary Islands.

At 3718 m above sea level, and approximately 7500 m above the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, Teide is the highest mountain in Spain, highest point in the Atlantic Ocean and the 13th highest mountain in the European Union (highest mountain not in the Alps).^[3] (Note: The actual summit stands 3 metres (10 ft) higher than the triangulation station, and associated bench mark, which has an altitude of 3,715 m (12,188 ft)). The island of Tenerife itself is the third largest volcanic ocean island on Earth by volume. Teide is also the third highest volcano on a volcanic ocean island.^[4] It is also unstable and possibly in a more advanced stage of deformation and failure than the much publicised Cumbre Vieja.^[5] The United Nations Committee for Disaster Mitigation designated Teide as a Decade Volcano^[6], because of its history of destructive eruptions and its proximity to several large towns, of which the closest are Garachico, Icod de los Vinos and Puerto de la Cruz.

Teide together with its neighbour Pico Viejo and Montaña Blanca form the Central Volcanic Complex.