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Mustique Island
These stamps were issued
in 1977 to celebrate the visit of Queen Elizabeth to Mustique Islands
in the Grenadines of St. Vincent on October 30, 1977 as a part of her
Silver Jubilee tour of the Commonwealth.
Jost Van Dyke
In 1493 Columbus landed on the
island of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. The islands were first
settled by the Dutch in 1648. During the seventeenth century Denmark
and Great Britain occupied the islands they now control. The United
States purchased the islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John
from Denmark in 1917
Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Henry Morgan, Anne Bonney and
Mary Read are well known as pirates. While pirates preyed on ships
throughout the world, they were especially active in the West Indies
in the eighteenth century. Among these pirates was a Dutchman, Jost
Van Dyke. One of the islands in the British Virgin Islands was named
for him.
Dr. John C. Lettsome, the founder of the British
Medical Society was born on Little Jost Van Dyke in 1744, and William
Thornton, the architect of the United States Capitol Building and the
first Secretary of Patents in the United States was born on Jost Van
Dyke.
In 1996 the British Virgin Islands issued a set of four
stamps with subjects relating to the island of Jost Van Dyke, of which
the map is one.
British Virgin Islands 763
The stamp issued by the British Virgin Islands in 1993 to celebrate
"25 Years of Ministerial Government" shows a shaded relief map of the
islands. The four largest islands, Tortula, Viergin Gorda, Jost van
Dyke and Anegada are identified by name, The Sir Francis Drake Channel
between Tortula and some smaller islands is also identified. The
island of Anegada which is approximately 33 miles to the northeast is
in a box at the top of the map. There are no coordinates, no scale and no orientation
indicated on the map. In the lower right hand area there is what
appears to be a ceremonial mace.
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