Guernsey

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.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: one of the Channel Islands, part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which is one of the British Crown Dependencies
  • Also known as: “Garnsey”, “Garnsey I.”, “Garnsey Island”, “Guernesey”, “Guernesi”, “Guernési”, “Guernsey (island)”, “Guernsey I.”, “Guernsey Island”, “I. Garnsey”, “I. Guernsey”, “Isle of Garnsey”, and “Isle of Guernsey”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Guernsey Airport and Little Chapel.

Aerodrome
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is an international airport on the island of Guernsey and the largest airport in the . It is located in the , a parish in Guernsey, 2.5 nautical miles southwest of St.

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The is situated in the Les Vauxbelets valley, . It was created in July 1914, by Brother Déodat. He planned to create a miniature version of the grotto and basilica at , the .

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is a monument in , Guernsey, erected in honor of a visit by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to the island in 1846.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Peter Port and St Martin.

Town
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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.

Village
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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.

Hamlet
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Saint Andrew is located in the centre of Guernsey 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.

Guernsey

Latitude
49.4585° or 49° 27′ 31″ north
Longitude
-2.5787° or 2° 34′ 43″ west
Population
63,000
Elevation
76 metres (249 feet)
IATA airport code
GCI
Open location code
8CXVFC5C+CG
Geo­Names ID
3042363
Wiki­data ID
Q3311985
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zeeuws—“Guernsey” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Guernsey”
  • Afrikaans: “Guernsey”
  • Albanian: “Guernsey”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة جيرنزي”
  • Arabic: “غيرنزي”
  • Aragonese: “Guernési”
  • Arpitan: “Guèrneseyi”
  • Asturian: “Guérnesei”
  • Asturian: “Guernsey”
  • Azerbaijani: “Gernsi”
  • Balinese: “Guernsey”
  • Basque: “Guernesey”
  • Belarusian: “Гернсі”
  • Bengali: “গার্নসি”
  • Bosnian: “Guernsey”
  • Breton: “Gwernenez”
  • Bulgarian: “Гърнзи”
  • Bulgarian: “остров Гърнзи”
  • Catalan: “Guernsey”
  • Chinese: “根西”
  • Chinese: “根西岛”
  • Chinese: “根西島”
  • Cornish: “Gernsi”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Gernsi”
  • Croatian: “Guernsey”
  • Czech: “Guernsey”
  • Danish: “Guernsey”
  • Dutch: “Guernsey”
  • Esperanto: “Gernezejo”
  • Esperanto: “Guernsey”
  • Estonian: “Guernsey saar”
  • Estonian: “Guernsey”
  • Faroese: “Guernsey”
  • Finnish: “Guernsey”
  • French: “Guernesey”
  • French: “Guernési”
  • French: “Guernsey”
  • French: “Île de Guernesey”
  • Galician: “Guernsey”
  • Georgian: “გერნსი”
  • German: “Guernesey”
  • German: “Guernsey”
  • Greek: “Γκέρνζι”
  • Greek: “Γκέρνσεϊ”
  • Greek: “Γκέρνσεϋ”
  • Greek: “Γκέρνσι”
  • Hausa: “Guernsey”
  • Hebrew: “גרנזי”
  • Hebrew: “גרנסי”
  • Hungarian: “Guernsey”
  • Icelandic: “Guernsey”
  • Ido: “Guernsey”
  • Indonesian: “Guernsey”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Guernsey”
  • Interlingue: “Guernsey”
  • Irish: “Geansaí”
  • Italian: “Guernsey”
  • Italian: “isola di Guernsey”
  • Italian: “Isola di Guernsey”
  • Japanese: “ガーンジー島”
  • Javanese: “Guernsey”
  • Kannada: “ಗರ್ನ್ಸಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gernsi”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Gwasi”
  • Korean: “건지 섬”
  • Korean: “건지”
  • Korean: “건지섬”
  • Kurdish: “Guernsey”
  • Latin: “Lisia”
  • Latin: “Sarnia”
  • Latvian: “Gērnsija”
  • Ligurian: “Guernsey”
  • Limburgan: “Guernsey”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Gernsi”
  • Lithuanian: “Gernsis”
  • Low German: “Guernsey”
  • Luxembourgish: “Guernsey”
  • Macedonian: “Гернзи”
  • Malay: “Guernsey”
  • Maltese: “Guernsey”
  • Manx: “Guernsey”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guernsey”
  • Moksha: “Гэрнси”
  • Narom: “Bailliage dé Dgèrnésy”
  • Narom: “Bailliage de Guernesey”
  • Narom: “Bailliage dé Gùernesey”
  • Narom: “Bailliage de Guernesi”
  • Narom: “Bailliage dé Guernési”
  • Narom: “Guernési”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guernsey”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guernsey”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guernsey”
  • Norwegian: “Guernsey”
  • Novial: “Guernsey”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guernesei”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guernesey”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Guernsey”
  • Persian: “گرنزی (جزیره)”
  • Persian: “گرنزی”
  • Picard: “Guernesey”
  • Polish: “Guernsey”
  • Portuguese: “Guernsey”
  • Romanian: “Guernesey”
  • Romanian: “Guernsey”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Guernsey”
  • Russian: “Гернси (остров)”
  • Russian: “Гернси”
  • Scots: “Guernsey”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Geàrnsaidh”
  • Serbian: “Гернзи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guernsey”
  • Shan: “ၵႂၢၼ်းသီ”
  • Sindhi: “گرنزي”
  • Slovak: “Guernsey”
  • Slovenian: “Guernsey”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوئرنسی”
  • Spanish: “Guernesey”
  • Spanish: “Guernsey”
  • Spanish: “isla de Guernsey”
  • Sundanese: “Guernsey”
  • Swahili: “Guernsey”
  • Swedish: “Guernsey”
  • Tagalog: “Guernsey”
  • Telugu: “గెర్నెసీ”
  • Thai: “เกิร์นซีย์”
  • Tumbuka: “Guernsey”
  • Turkish: “Guernsey Adası”
  • Turkish: “Guernsey”
  • Ukrainian: “Гернсі”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Guernsey”
  • Urdu: “گرنزی”
  • Vietnamese: “Guernsey”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guernsey”
  • Welsh: “Ynys y Garn”
  • Western Frisian: “Guernsey”
  • Yoruba: “Guernsey”
  • Zeeuws: “Guernsey”

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