This is a list of islands within the Channel Islands in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy. This group of islands includes the Bailiwick of Guernsey, the Bailiwick of Jersey and Chausey.
| Name | Image | Coordinates | Population | Area (hectares) | Elevation (metres) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alderney  |  | 2020 (Jan 2016) | 780 [lower-alpha 1] | 90 | |
| Sark |  | 600 (2002) | 550 [lower-alpha 1] | 114 [1] | |
| Herm |  | 60 (2002) | 200 [lower-alpha 1] | 66 [2] | |
| Guernsey |  | 63276 (2019) | 6,340 [lower-alpha 1] | 110 [3] | |
| Jersey |  | 105500 [4] [5] [6] (Dec 2017) | 11,820 [lower-alpha 1] | 143 | |
| Grande-Île |  | 30 | 45 | 31 |
Uninhabited islands, islets and rock formations include the following: [7]
| Name | Image | Coordinates | Area (hectares) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burhou [8] |  | 13 [lower-alpha 1] | |
| Ortac |  | ||
| Les Casquets |  | ||
| Houmet des Pies | [9] | ||
| Raz [10] | |||
| L'Etac de la Quoiré [11] | [9] | ||
| Clonque Rock [12] |  | [9] | |
| Renonquet | |||
| Coque Lihou | [9] | ||
| Corbet Rock | [9] | ||
| Fourquie | [9] | ||
| Houmet Herbé | [9] | ||
| Le Puits Jervais | [9] | ||
| L'Equêt | [9] | ||
| Les Etacs | [9] | ||
| Les Homeaux Florains | [9] |
| Name | Image | Coordinates | Area (hectares) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brecqhou [8] |  | 35.2 [lower-alpha 1] [13] | |
| Les Burons | [9] | ||
| Baleine | [9] | ||
| Moie de Breniere [8] | [9] | ||
| Moie de Port Gorey | [9] | ||
| Moie de la Bretagne | [9] | ||
| Moie de la Fontaine | [9] | ||
| Tintageu | [9] | ||
| Les Autelets [14] |  | [9] | |
| Bec du Nez |  | [9] | |
| L'Etac [8] |  | [9] | |
| Moie du Mouton | [9] | ||
| La Grune |  | [9] | |
| Courbée du Nez | [9] |
| Name | Image | Coordinates | Area (hectares) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caquorobert |  | ||
| Jethou [8] |  | 18 [lower-alpha 2] | |
| Crevichon [8] |  | 3.0 [lower-alpha 1] | |
| Grande Fauconnière [8] | [9] | ||
| Goubinuere | [9] | ||
| Homet | [9] | ||
| La Conchée [15] | [9] | ||
| Godin | [9] | ||
| Hermetier | |
| Name | Image | Coordinates | Area (hectares) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lihou [8] |  | 15 [lower-alpha 2] | |
| Lihoumel | |||
| Houmets | |||
| Brehon |  | ||
| Les Hanois [7] |  | [9] | |
| La Grosse Rock [16] | [9] | ||
| Crève Coeur | [9] | ||
| Cul de l'Autel | [9] | ||
| La Conchée | [9] | ||
| La Platte Fougère [17] |  |
The Bailiwick includes the uninhabited (or nearly uninhabited) islands and islets of: [7]
| Name | Image | Coordinates | Area (hectares) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minquiers [18] |  | Other islets nearby include Maîtresse Île / Maîtr' Île, Les Maisons, Le Niêsant, Les Faucheurs, La Haute Grune | ||
| Écréhous [19] |  | Other islets nearby include Maîtr'Île, La Marmotchiéthe, Lé Bliantch'Île, Les D'mies, La Grand' Naithe, L'Êtchièrviéthe, Lé Fou, La Froutchie | ||
| Les Dirouilles [19] |  | |||
| Pierres de Lecq [20] |  | Other islets nearby include L'Êtchièrviéthe; La Rocque du Nord; L'Êtaîse or L'Êtaîthe; Lé Bel; Lé Longis; La P'tite Mathe; La Grôsse (Great Rock); La Grand' Mathe; La Greune dé Lé or La Bonnette; La Greune du Seur-Vouêt; L'Orange; La Vouêtaîse, La Vouêtaîthe or La Vouêt'rêsse; La Cappe; La Douoche; Lé Byi; La Rocque Mollet; L'Êtché au Nord-Vouêt; La Galette; La Briarde; La Sprague; La Niêthole Jean Jean or Lé Gouoillot. | ||
| Île Agois |  | |||
| La Motte |  | Tidal island, also known as Green Island. | ||
| L'Islet |  | Site of Elizabeth Castle. | ||
| Île au Guerdain |  | [9] | Site of Janvrin's Tomb. | |
| Icho |  | Site of Icho Tower. | ||
| L'Avarison |  | Site of Seymour Tower. | ||
| Île Mâitre | [9] | |||
| Marmotier | [9] | |||
| La Sambue | [9] | |||
| Long Echet |  | [9] |
The archipelago of Chausey comprises 365 islands at low tide, compared to only 52 islands at high tide. [21]
| Name | Image | Coordinates | Area (hectares) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grande-Île | | 45 | |
| La Genétaie | 1.82 | ||
| La Meule | 1.38 | ||
| La Houllée | 0.86 | ||
| L'îles aux Oiseaux | 0.62 | ||
| Grand Épail | 0.29 |
The Channel Islands are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They are divided into two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, consisting of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and some smaller islands. Historically, they are the remnants of the Duchy of Normandy. Although they are not part of the United Kingdom, the UK is responsible for the defence and international relations of the islands as it is for the other Crown Dependency, the Isle of Man, and the British Overseas Territories. The Crown Dependencies are neither members of the Commonwealth of Nations, nor part of the European Union. They have a total population of about 171,916, and the bailiwicks' capitals, Saint Helier and Saint Peter Port, have populations of 33,500 and 18,207 respectively.
Guernsey is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located 27 miles (43 km) west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy. It is the largest island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes five other inhabited islands and many small islets and rocks. The Bailiwick has a population of 63,950, the vast majority of whom live on Guernsey, and the island has a land area of 24 square miles (62 km2).
Jersey, officially known as the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an island country in Northwestern Europe and self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the largest of the Channel Islands and is 14 miles (23 km) from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. The Bailiwick consists of the main island of Jersey and some surrounding uninhabited islands and rocks including Les Dirouilles, Les Écréhous, Les Minquiers, and Les Pierres de Lecq.
Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands, an island archipelago in the St. Malo bight in the western English Channel. It has a total area of 120 square kilometres (46 sq mi) and is part of the British Isles archipelago. It lies 22 kilometres from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy, France and about 161 kilometres from the south coast of Great Britain. Jersey lies within longitude -2° W and latitude 49° N.
Herm is one of the Channel Islands and part of the Parish of St Peter Port in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. It is located in the English Channel, north-west of France and south of England. It is 2,183 m (7,162 ft) long and under 873 metres (2,864 ft) wide; oriented north–south, with several stretches of sand along its northern coast. The much larger island of Guernsey lies to the west, Jersey lies to the south-east, and the smaller island of Jethou is just off the south-west coast.
Manche is a coastal French département in Normandy on the English Channel, which is known as La Manche, literally "the sleeve", in French. Manche is bordered by Ille-et-Vilaine and Mayenne to the south, Orne and Calvados to the east, the English Channel to the west and north and by sharing maritime borders with the Crown Dependencies of Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey of the United Kingdom to the west. It had a population of 495,045 in 2019.
Sark is an island, part of the Channel Islands in the southwestern English Channel, off the coast of Normandy, France. It is a royal fief, which forms part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, with its own set of laws based on Norman law and its own parliament. It has a population of about 500. Sark has an area of 2.10 square miles (5.44 km2). Little Sark is a peninsula joined by a natural but high and very narrow isthmus to the rest of Sark Island.
Lihou is a small tidal island located just off the west coast of the island of Guernsey, in the English Channel, between Great Britain and France. Administratively, Lihou forms part of the Parish of St. Peter's in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, and is now owned by the parliament of Guernsey, although there have been a number of owners in the past. Since 2006, the island has been jointly managed by the Guernsey Environment Department and the Lihou Charitable Trust. In the past the island was used by locals for the collection of seaweed for use as a fertiliser, but today Lihou is mainly used for tourism, including school trips. Lihou is also an important centre for conservation, forming part of a Ramsar wetland site for the preservation of rare birds and plants as well as historic ruins of a priory and a farmhouse.
Alderney is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is 3 miles (5 km) long and 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) wide.
An islet is a very small, often unnamed island. Most definitions are not precise, but some suggest that an islet has little or no vegetation and cannot support human habitation. It may be made of rock, sand and/or hard coral; may be permanent or tidal ; and may exist in the sea, lakes, rivers or any other sizeable bodies of water.
Chausey is a group of small islands, islets and rocks off the coast of Normandy, in the English Channel. It lies 17 kilometres (11 mi) from Granville and forms a quartier of the Granville commune in the Manche département. Chausey forms part of the Channel Islands from a geographical point of view, but, because it is under French jurisdiction, it is almost never mentioned in the context of the other Channel Islands. There are no scheduled transport links between Chausey and the other Channel Islands, although between two and four daily shuttles link Chausey to mainland France through Granville, depending on the season.
The Crown Dependencies are three offshore island territories in the British Islands that are self-governing possessions of the British Crown: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey, both located in the English Channel and together known as the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland.
The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a self-governing British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France, comprising several of the Channel Islands. It has a total land area of 78 square kilometres (30 sq mi) and an estimated total population of 67,334.
A bailiwick is usually the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff, and once also applied to territories in which a privately appointed bailiff exercised the sheriff's functions under a royal or imperial writ.
St. Peter Port is a town and one of the ten parishes on the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. It is the capital of the Bailiwick of Guernsey as well as the main port. The population in 2019 was 18,958.
The Minquiers are a group of islands and rocks, about 15 km (9.3 mi) south of Jersey. They form part of the Bailiwick of Jersey. They are administratively part of the Parish of Grouville, and of its Vingtaine La Rocque.
The Écréhous are a group of islands and rocks situated six miles (9.6 km) north-east of Jersey, and eight miles (12.8 km) from France. They form part of the Bailiwick of Jersey and are administratively part of the Parish of St Martin.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Guernsey:
The history of the Jews in Guernsey dates back to well before the events of 1940–5. A London Jew named Abraham was described in 1277 as being from "La Gelnseye" (Guernsey). A converted Portuguese Jew, Edward Brampton, was appointed Governor of Guernsey in 1482.
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