GRENADINES OF SAINT VINCENT

GRENADINES OF SAINT VINCENT.

Early maps.
Map of Mustique Island (1861).
Fourth stamp in a set of 6, issued on 02.04.1981.
Face value: 60 cents of East Caribbean dollar.
Design: John Cooter.
Printed by Format.
Printing: Offset lithography.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 209.
- StampWorld No. 209.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 192.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean. Its 369 km² (142 sq mi) territory consists of the main island of Saint Vincent and the northern two-thirds of the Grenadines, a chain of 32 smaller islands. Some of the Grenadines are inhabited:  Bequia, Mustique, Union Island, Canouan, Petit Saint Vincent, Palm Island, Mayreau, Young Island; while others are not: Tobago Cays, Baliceaux, Battowia, Quatre, Petite Mustique, Savan and Petit Nevis.

Mustique is a small private island, owned by the Mustique Company, a private company which is in turn owned by the island's home owners. The island covers 5.7 km² (2.2 sq mi) and has several coral reefs. Its year-round population of about 500 mostly live in the villages of Lovell, Britannia Bay and Dover. The population rises to 1,200 in peak season. The stamp reproduces a map made by James J. Parsons in 1861.