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Lihou Island

Lihou is a small tidal island just off the west coast of the island of , in the , between and . Administratively, Lihou forms part of the Parish of St Peter's in the , and is now owned by the States of Guernsey, although there have been a number of owners in the past.
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  • Type: Islet
  • Description: small island, part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, Channel Islands
  • Also known as: “Lihou”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Saumarez and Le Trépied Dolmen.

Fort
Photo: Acad Ronin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a in Saint Peter, , on a headland that forms the northern tip of L'Erée and extends to the Lihou causeway.

Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is an archaeological site.

Castle
Photo: Angus MacRae, CC BY 2.0.
, colloquially known as the "cup and saucer", is a located on a tidal rock in Rocquaine Bay in on the west coast of the island. is situated 2½ km south of Lihou Island.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Andrew and St Martin.

Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Saint Andrew is located in the centre of and as such is the only parish on the island to be landlocked. As it is customary to list the parishes round the coast, either clockwise or anti-clockwise, starting with St Peter Port, is usually the last parish to be mentioned in such a list. is situated 7 km east of Lihou Island.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a group of islands in the English Channel, part of the . Guernsey is the main island, some 50 miles west of the Cotentin Peninsula in France. is situated 9 km east of Lihou Island.

Town
Photo: Alistair Young, CC BY 2.0.
The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a group of islands in the English Channel, part of the . Guernsey is the main island, some 50 miles west of the Cotentin Peninsula in France. is situated 9 km east of Lihou Island.

Lihou Island

Latitude
49.46047° or 49° 27′ 38″ north
Longitude
-2.66816° or 2° 40′ 5″ west
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Open location code
8CXVF86J+5P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 3404368
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
3042326
Wiki­data ID
Q953452
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Breton to Welsh—“Lihou Island” goes by many names.
  • Breton: “Lihou”
  • Catalan: “Lihou”
  • Cebuano: “Lihou Island”
  • Chinese: “利烏”
  • Chinese: “利烏島”
  • Chinese: “利霍岛”
  • Chinese: “利霍島”
  • Dutch: “Lihou”
  • French: “Lihou”
  • Galician: “Lihou”
  • German: “Lihou”
  • Hebrew: “ליהו”
  • Indonesian: “Lihou”
  • Interlingue: “Lihou”
  • Italian: “Lihou”
  • Japanese: “リーウー島”
  • Japanese: “リウー島”
  • Japanese: “リホウ島”
  • Javanese: “Lihou”
  • Latvian: “Līū”
  • Polish: “Lihou”
  • Portuguese: “Lihou”
  • Romanian: “Lihou”
  • Russian: “Лиху”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lihou”
  • Serbian: “Lihu”
  • Serbian: “Лију”
  • Serbian: “Лиху”
  • Spanish: “Lihou”
  • Swedish: “Lihou Island”
  • Swedish: “Lihou”
  • Vietnamese: “Lihou”
  • Welsh: “Lihou”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lihou Island”. Photo: algo52, CC BY-SA 2.0.