TOURISM INCENTIVE RECOVERY PROGRAMME - (TRIP SCHEME)

The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) provided various support schemes for 2020/21 due to be designed specifically to mitigate the effects of the global pandemic on the Falkland Island tourism businesses, operators and employees. This set of stamps celebrates the places visited and captured on TRIP scheme funded staycations in 2020/21 by residents...

Ecosystems In Recovery - Whales

The waters around South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands are safeguarded through a 1.24 million square kilometre Marine Protected Area (MPA). Biodiversity great and small is celebrated and conserved. However, this has not always been the case. During the 20th century over 170,000 whales were killed in South Georgia waters having an untold impact on the ecosystem as a whole. Whaling ended in South Georgia in the 1960s, but whales were rarely seen on this important feeding ground for the next 40 years.

Olympic Games

The country’s Olympic heritage began in 1948, when it was still a British colony. The 1948 appearance was under the British flag. However, since then, Bahamian athletes have been present in every summer Games, competing for medals under the charter of a Bahamas Olympic Committee.