Brecqhou

Brecqhou is one of the , located off the west coast of where they are now geographically detached from each other. Brecqhou is politically part of both Sark and the .
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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.

Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is the highest point in and is also the highest point of the Bailiwick of , a British Crown Dependency in the off the coast of Normandy, with an altitude of 114 metres.

Monument
The is an obelisk in , , 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.

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is a small island within the Bailiwick of in the , with a population of 492 in 2015 and an area of little more than 2 square miles.

Locality
is a locality.

Locality
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is a locality.

Brecqhou

Latitude
49.43143° or 49° 25′ 53″ north
Longitude
-2.38842° or 2° 23′ 18″ west
Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)
Open location code
8CXVCJJ6+HJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 2956911
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
3042407
Wiki­data 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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