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Insect Stamp of Dominica

Commonwealth of Dominica land floats in the Caribbean Sea the same as the Dominican Republic, and a name is confusing to be similar, but It is located in nearer to South America continent from Dominican Republic, and it is the small country which an area is bigger from Awaji-shima, and is smaller from Sado-ga-shima Island. Please refer to a map in detail.
Commonwealth of Dominica was become to a British colony since 1805 year in result competed for in a French and the U.K. in the 17th century, whereas the Dominican Republic was governed by French / Spain / U.S.A. Commonwealth of Dominica got autonomy in 1967 and became independent as a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations in 1978.
The small seat on which a kind of a grasshopper was drawn is issued as a memorial stamp for Columbus visit to a shore 500 years from this Commonwealth of Dominica in 1992.
As a beetle stamp of the nature protection, four kinds of stamps describing the Hercules Beetle were issued in 1994.
A small seat comprising one kind of bee stamps and a small seat comprising six kinds of stamps on which insect was drawn is issued in 2002 at the same time.

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