CAYMAN ISLANDS

CAYMAN ISLANDS.

Definitive stamps.
Map of Cayman Islands and portrait of King George V.
First stamp in a set of 9, issued on 01.05.1935.
Face value: 1/4 of British penny.
Printing: Recess.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 86.
- Scott No. 85.
- StampWorld No. 85.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 96.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 89.

The Cayman Islands is a self-governing British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea. The 264-square-kilometre (102-square-mile) territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. The capital city is George Town on Grand Cayman, which is the most populous of the islands. Is believed that they were discovered by Christopher Columbus on May 10, 1503 during his final voyage to the Americas. England took formal control of the Islands, along with Jamaica, as a result of the Treaty of Madrid of 1670. On June 22, 1863, the Cayman Islands became officially declared and administered as a dependency of the Crown Colony of Jamaica. Politically the Islands were an internally self-governing territory of Jamaica from 1958 to 1962; however, they reverted to direct British rule following the independence of Jamaica in 1962. The estimate population of the territory are some 66,000 inhabitants.