Solomon Islands | |
![]() Click here for higher resolution image | First Day Cover for sol-20160801-g-001 First day of issue: August 01, 2016 Width: 227 mm Height: 161 mm Cachet maker: Unknown Location: Oversize album #13 From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page. Solomon Islands (1907-) Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 426,855 (1997 estimate). A group of islands in the western South Pacific. The islands were a British protectorate designated as the British Solomon Islands until 1975, when, as the group approached independence, the "British" was dropped. The Solomons became self-governing in 1976 and fully independent in 1978. |