Brecqhou
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: islet in the Channel Islands, a dependency of the UK Crown
- Also known as: “Brechou”, “Brecqhou Island”, and “Isle des Marchants”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Le Moulin and Pilcher Monument.
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.
Pilcher Monument
Monument
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Pilcher Monument is an obelisk in Sark, Channel Islands, erected in memory of JG Pilcher, an oil merchant killed in a boat wreck in 1868. The monument stands above Havre Gosselin bay, the site of the 1868 incident, in which five men were killed.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sark and Little Sark.
Sark
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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.
Brecqhou
- Categories: Crown Dependencies, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Guernsey, Channel Islands, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.43143° or 49° 25′ 53″ northLongitude
-2.38842° or 2° 23′ 18″ westElevation
50 metres (164 feet)Open location code
8CXVCJJ6+HJOpenStreetMap ID
way 2956911OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
3042407Wikidata ID
Q904566
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“Brecqhou” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Brecqhou”
- Breton: “Brecqou”
- Breton: “Brekhou”
- Cebuano: “Brecqhou”
- Chinese: “佈雷庫島”
- Chinese: “布雷库岛”
- Chinese: “布雷庫”
- Danish: “Brecqhou”
- Dutch: “Brecqhou”
- Esperanto: “Brechou”
- Esperanto: “Brecqhou”
- French: “Brecqhou”
- Galician: “Brecqhou”
- German: “Brechou”
- German: “Brecqhou”
- Hebrew: “ברצ’ו”
- Hebrew: “ברצו”
- Italian: “Brechou”
- Italian: “Brecqhou”
- Japanese: “ブレッシュ島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brecqhou”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brechou”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brecqhou”
- Norwegian: “Brecqhou”
- Polish: “Brecqhou”
- Portuguese: “Brecqhou”
- Romanian: “Brecqhou”
- Russian: “Бреку”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Brecqhou”
- Serbian: “Brecqhou”
- Serbian: “Бреку”
- Spanish: “Brechou”
- Spanish: “Brecqhou”
- Swedish: “Brechou”
- Swedish: “Brecqhou”
- Welsh: “Brecqhou”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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