The first conqueror of Mount
Everest, the creator of Pippi Longstocking and Crimean landmarks appear
on 2015's most attractive currency bills.
Image credit:
International Bank Note Society
New
Zealand's five-dollar note, which features Mount Everest's first
conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary, has been adjudged as the world's best
banknote for 2015 by the International Bank Note Society.
The
Society, a nonprofit educational organisation which has more than 20,000
members in close to 100 countries, picked the banknote sanctioned by
the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as a "clear winner" from among three dozen nominees.
The
notes are assessed for “artistic merit and/or innovative security
features”, including use of colour, contrast and balance.
The orange and brown $5 note displays a map of New Zealand in a polymer window as well as numerous upgraded security features.
In
addition to Hillary, who passed away in 2008, the face features South
Island’s Mount Cook and a colour-changing yellow-eyed penguin. The back
design also features this rare penguin unique to New Zealand, as well as
local flora. Almost 150 new banknotes were released worldwide in 2015. The Society narrowed down the nominees to 20 from
Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. India was not among these picks.
The Penguin Camera is located on Torgersen Island (64°46’S, 64°04’W), off the coast of Anvers Island and less than a mile from Palmer Station. Torgersen Island is home to a colony of Adélie penguins numbering approximately 2,500. This camera is seasonal and operates primarily from October to February, the Adélie breeding season. The camera is solar-powered and may sometimes experience brief outages due to inclement weather. School classrooms and other educational demonstrations will often take control of the camera, moving it to gain better views of the colony.
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