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Channel Islands. 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. Historically ...
Download QR code; Print/export ... This is a list of islands within the Channel Islands in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy. This group of ...
The Channel Islands are a group of islands off the coast of France. The largest island is Jersey, followed by Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and a number of smaller islands, islets and rocky outcrops. The islands were separated from mainland Europe with rising sea levels in the Neolithic period; thereafter maritime activity commenced.
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.
Costello's, c. 1940. Costello's (also known as Tim's) was a bar and restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, from 1929 to 1992. The bar operated at several locations near the intersection of East 44th Street and Third Avenue. Costello's was known as a drinking spot for journalists with the New York Daily News, writers with The New Yorker ...
Geograph Channel Islands. Geograph Channel Islands is a web-based project, initiated in April 2010, [1] to create a freely accessible archive of geographically located photographs of the Channel Islands. [2] Photographs in the Geograph Channel Islands collection are chosen to illustrate geographical features all parts of the Channel Islands.
The largest of the other islands are to be found in the Hebrides and the Northern Isles to the north, and Anglesey and the Isle of Man between Great Britain and Ireland. Not included are the Channel Islands which, positioned off the coast of France, are not part of the archipelago. There are 188 permanently inhabited islands in total: Isle of ...
Geography of the Channel Islands — a U.K. Crown Dependency of islands in the English Channel of Europe. Subcategories This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.