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Contents:

• Country overview
• Philately at Barbados
• Official stamps of Barbados related to Paleontology
• Commemorative postmarks of Barbados related to Paleontology
• References

Barbados is a sovereign island country in the Lesser Antilles, in the Americas. It is 34 kilometres  in length and up to 23 kilometres  in width, covering an area of 432 square kilometres. It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres  east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about 168 kilometres  east of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and 400 kilometres  north-east of Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados is outside of the principal Atlantic hurricane belt.
The first Europeans to arrive on the island were probably the Portuguese in about the year 1500. In 1605 Sir Olave Leigh landed on the island and claimed it for King James. The first group of English settlers, about 30, arrived on the island in about 1624. More English settlers continued to arrive and by 1650 some 20,000 people had settled on the island.
In 1966, Barbados became an independent state and Commonwealth realm with the British Monarch as hereditary head of state. Current population of 280,121 people. Despite being classified as an Atlantic island, Barbados is considered to be a part of the Caribbean, where it is ranked as a leading tourist destination. [R1]      

An independence issue was issued in 1966 which included stamps of the Hilton Hotel and cricketer Gary Sobers.  ^[R2]. Since then the island country issue only few sest a year. So far Barbados issued only one set of  Paleontology related stamps: "Prehistoric Aquatic Reptiles"  

Official stamps of Barbados that related to Paleontology: dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals