Sark
Sark is a small island within the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the Channel Islands, with a population of 492 in 2015 and an area of little more than 2 square miles.Places of Interest
Highlights include Le Moulin and Brecqhou.
Le Moulin
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Le Moulin is the highest point in Sark and is also the highest point of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy, with an altitude of 114 metres.
Brecqhou
Island
Photo: Diegourdiales, CC BY 3.0.
Brecqhou is one of the Channel Islands, located off the west coast of Sark where they are now geographically detached from each other. Brecqhou is politically part of both Sark and the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Point Derrible and Little Sark.
Sark
- Type: Island
- Also known as: “Serq”
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Guernsey, Channel Islands, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.42835° or 49° 25′ 42″ northLongitude
-2.36262° or 2° 21′ 45″ westElevation
103 metres (338 feet)Open location code
8CXVCJHP+8XOpenStreetMap ID
way 2956937OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
3042282
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Satellite Map
Discover Sark from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sark” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سارك”
- Bashkir: “Сарк”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Сарк”
- Belarusian: “Сарк”
- Bengali: “সার্ক”
- Breton: “Sark”
- Catalan: “Sark”
- Chinese: “薩克島”
- Czech: “Sark”
- Danish: “Sark”
- Dutch: “Sark”
- Esperanto: “Sark”
- Estonian: “Sarki saar”
- Finnish: “Sark”
- French: “Sercq”
- German: “Sark”
- Greek: “Σαρκ”
- Hebrew: “סרק”
- Hebrew: “סֶרְק”
- Hungarian: “Sark”
- Indonesian: “Sark”
- Irish: “An tSairc”
- Italian: “Sark”
- Japanese: “サーク島”
- Korean: “사크 섬”
- Lithuanian: “Sarkas”
- Narom: “Ser”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sark”
- Norwegian: “Sark”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sarc”
- Polish: “Sark”
- Portuguese: “Sark”
- Romanian: “Sark”
- Russian: “Сарк”
- Serbian: “Сарк”
- Slovak: “Sark”
- Spanish: “Sark”
- Swedish: “Sark”
- Tamil: “சார்க்”
- Ukrainian: “Сарк”
- Vietnamese: “Sark”
- Welsh: “Sark”
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