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Les Casquets, Channel Islands, Guernsey and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Guernsey and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Small group of rocks
Also called (The) Casquets, a group of rocks in the Channel Islands eight miles (13 km) northwest of Alderney, administered by the Bailiwick of Guernsey and part of an underwater ridge of sandstone.
Photo: J woodward at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Archipelago in the English Channel
An archipelago in the English Channel off Normandy's coast, in France. It is split into two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Guernsey, made up of Guernsey, Sark, Herm, Alderney and some smaller islands, and the Bailiwick of Jersey, the largest island.
Photo: Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo
English Channel island near Normandy
The second-biggest of the Channel Islands, 27 miles (43 km) west of Normandy's Cotentin Peninsula. It is the largest island of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which also has five other inhabited islands, Sark, Brecqhou, Jethou, Herm and Alderney, plus many small islets and rocks.
Photo: Bob Embleton, CC BY-SA 2.0
Small tidal island, on the west coast of Guernsey, Channel Islands
A small tidal island a short way off the west coast of Guernsey, in the English Channel between France and Great Britain. Administratively it falls within St Peter's parish in the Bailiwick of Guernsey; it has had several owners over time and today belongs to the States of Guernsey.
Photo: alaingosse, CC BY-SA 2.0
Lighthouse
A stone lighthouse on Alderney's North-East coast, built in 1912 to protect ships from the many rocks around the island and the dangerous waters of the Alderney Race.
Photo: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0
Nazi prison camps in the Hartell Islands
Camps built and run by Nazi Germany on Alderney while it occupied the Channel Islands in World War II. The island had four forced/slave labour sites, among them Lager Sylt, which was the one Nazi concentration camp on British soil in the wartime occupation.
Photo: Andree Stephan, CC BY 3.0
Island in Channel Islands
A small islet with no inhabitants about 5 kilometres off Alderney's west coast, close to Burhou. It measures about 50 by 70 metres and stands 24 metres out of the sea.
Photo: John Rostron, CC BY-SA 2.0
Island near Alderney, Channel Islands
A small island of the Channel Islands, about 1.4 miles (2.3 km) northwest of Alderney. Nobody lives there permanently, and as a bird sanctuary it is closed to landings from March 15 to August 1.
Photo: John Rostron, CC BY-SA 2.0
Home of the Seigneur of Sark
Traditionally the home of Sark's seigneur, who is head of Sark, in the Channel Islands.
Photo: Daniel Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0
Historical chapel and sight-seeing attraction in Guernsey
A chapel in the Les Vauxbelets valley, Saint Andrew, Guernsey, made by Brother Déodat in July 1914.
Photo: Man vyi, Public domain
The second-biggest of the Channel Islands, 27 miles (43 km) west of Normandy's Cotentin Peninsula. It is the largest island of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which also has five other inhabited islands, Sark, Brecqhou, Jethou, Herm and Alderney, plus many small islets and rocks. The bailiwick has 63,950 people, the great majority on Guernsey, whose land covers 24 square miles (62 km²).
Officially The Bailiwick of Guernsey.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Les Casquets, Channel Islands, Guernsey and Lihou and others.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Guernsey that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
English, French. The currency is GBP.
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