Solomon Islands | |
![]() Click here for higher resolution image Click here to see FDC's | First day of issue: August 01, 2016 Width: 93 mm Height: 127 mm Perforation: Perforated 13.25 x 13.25 Catalog number: Scott 2049 Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXXI Stamp ID = 4702 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. |