LIHOU (Guernsey).
Lihou
Youth Project.
Map of the Lihou Island.
Second stamp in a set of 5. issued on 18.07.1966.
Face value: 2 penny.
Cindarella stamp, not recognized by the UPU or considered in official catalogs.
Lihou
is a small 0.15 km2 (0.057 sq mi) island located off the west coast
of the island of Guernsey,
between Great Britain and France. Administratively it is part of the parish of
St. Peter in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, and is now owned by the Guernsey
parliament, although it has had several owners in the past. Since 2006, the
island has been jointly managed by the Guernsey Department of the Environment
and the Lihou Charitable Trust. At low tide it is linked to the L'Erée
promontory in Guernsey by a 400 m (1,300 ft) stone causeway. In 1989 the island
was identified as a Site
of Nature Conservation Interest and as part of an Important Bird Area
that includes parts of the Guernsey coastline. From 1966 to 1969, when the
Guernsey states assumed responsibility for postal services in the Bailiwick.
Lihou issued his own stamps, which are philatelicly considered cindarellas with
no postage value.
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Thanks to R. Gómez-Val for his contribution.
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