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The Channel Islands [note 1] 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.
Also during this period, PT-658 served twice a week as a high speed transport, carrying men and supplies to the United States Air Force D.E.W. Radar Station on Santa Rosa Island, off the coast of Los Angeles in the Channel Island Group. PT-658 ' s survival has been attributed to her completion late in the war, and that she was never sent ...
This is a list of islands within the Channel Islands in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy. ... [5] 49°43′6″N 2°10′3″W: L'Etac de la Quoir ...
Two funnels, two masts side paddle wheel propulsion and accommodation for 450–560 passengers. Used on the Southampton – Channel Islands service. On 5 June 1873 she was wrecked in fog on Platte Boue Rock, Little Roussel, between Herm and Guernsey. [122] [134] [135
Jersey is a heavily fortified island with coastal fortifications that date to the English Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, and Nazi Germany's occupation of the Channel Islands. The fortifications include castles, forts, towers, Martello towers, artillery batteries, and seawalls. Not infrequently, fortifications from one period are built on the ...
Boats in Chausey Sound. The two-master on the right is a traditional type known as a Bisquine. Map of Chausey islands. Grande-Île, the main island, is 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) long and 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) wide at its widest (approximately 45 hectares (110 acres)), though this is just the tip of a substantial and complex archipelago which is exposed at low tide.
Channel Islands National Park is a national park of the United States, ... forming an elongated core of the island, 10 miles long and 1.5 miles wide.
Islands and islets belonging to the Bailiwick of Guernsey, shown within the Channel Islands Situated around 49°24′N 2°36′W / 49.4°N 2.6°W / 49.4; -2.6 , Alderney, Guernsey, Herm, Sark, and some other smaller islands together have a total area of 78 km 2 (30 sq mi) and coastlines of about 50 km (31