Little Burhou
Burhou is a small island about 1.4 miles northwest of Alderney that is part of the Channel Islands. It has no permanent residents, and is a bird sanctuary, so landing there is banned from March 15 to August 1.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Islet
- Description: island near Alderney
- Also known as: “Brecqhou” and “Burhou”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ortac and Alderney Airport.
Ortac
Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ortac is a small uninhabited islet about 5 kilometres west of the coast of Alderney near to the islet of Burhou. It measures roughly 50 by 70 metres, and rises 24 metres above the sea level. Ortac is situated 3 km west of Little Burhou.
Alderney Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Gene Selkov, CC BY 2.0.
Alderney Airport is the only airport on the island of Alderney, Guernsey. Built in 1935, Alderney Airport was the first airport in the Channel Islands. Alderney Airport is situated 4 km southeast of Little Burhou.
Fort Clonque
Castle
Photo: Ryan Alexander, CC BY 2.0.
Fort Clonque is a 19th-century coastal fortress in Alderney, in the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the Channel Islands built on a rocky outcrop of land joined to the island by a causeway that can be submerged at high tide.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint Anne.
Saint Anne
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Saint Anne is the main town of Alderney in the Channel Islands. Saint Anne is situated 4 km southeast of Little Burhou.
Little Burhou
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Guernsey, Channel Islands, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.731° or 49° 43′ 52″ northLongitude
-2.25227° or 2° 15′ 8″ westOpen location code
8CXVPPJX+C3OpenStreetMap ID
way 3404592OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
Discover Little Burhou from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“Little Burhou” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Burhou”
- Cebuano: “Burhou”
- Cebuano: “Little Burhou”
- Chinese: “伯魯島”
- Chinese: “伯鲁岛”
- Chinese: “布爾胡島”
- Dutch: “Burhou”
- French: “Burhou”
- German: “Burhou”
- Hebrew: “בורהו”
- Italian: “Burhou”
- Japanese: “バーフー島”
- Macedonian: “Беру”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Burhou”
- Polish: “Burhou”
- Portuguese: “Burhou”
- Romanian: “Burhou”
- Russian: “Беру”
- Russian: “Беру́”
- Russian: “Бурху”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Burhou”
- Serbian: “Беру”
- Spanish: “Burhou”
- Swedish: “Burhou”
- Welsh: “Burhou”
- “Brecqhou”
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