Alderney
Alderney is part of the Balliwick of Guernsey, and at 3 miles long by 1½ miles wide it's the third largest of the Channel Islands, with a population in 2018 of 2019.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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: “Aurigny”, “GBA”, and “Great Britain Alderney”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alderney Airport and Fort Tourgis.
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.
Fort Tourgis
Castle
Photo: TheOnlyMoxey, CC BY 2.0.
Fort Tourgis is an extensive fortification in Alderney to the north west of St Anne forming part of the Fortifications of Alderney inside the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
Braye Harbour
Marina
Photo: Chickenofbristol, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Braye Harbour is the main harbour on the north side of the island of Alderney, in the Channel Islands, a dependency of the British Crown. A 3,000 feet breakwater was built by the Admiralty to protect the Navy in the 19th century shelters Braye Harbour.
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.
Alderney
- Categories: Crown Dependencies and landform
- Location: Guernsey, Channel Islands, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.717° or 49° 43′ 1″ northLongitude
-2.1968° or 2° 11′ 48″ westPopulation
2,020Elevation
56 metres (184 feet)United Nations Location Code
GG ACIOpen location code
8CXVPR83+R7OpenStreetMap ID
way 3404730GeoNames ID
8989934Wikidata ID
Q179313
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Alderney” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Alderney”
- Arabic: “آلدرني”
- Armenian: “Ալդերնի”
- Azerbaijani: “Alderney”
- Basque: “Alderney”
- Belarusian: “Олдэрні”
- Betawi: “Olderni”
- Breton: “Aldernez”
- Catalan: “Alderney”
- Cebuano: “Alderney”
- Chinese: “奥尔德尼”
- Chinese: “奥尔德尼岛”
- Chinese: “奥尔德尼群岛”
- Chinese: “奧爾德尼”
- Chinese: “奧爾德尼島”
- Czech: “Alderney”
- Danish: “Alderney”
- Dutch: “Alderney”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الدرنى”
- Esperanto: “Aldernejo”
- Estonian: “Alderney”
- Finnish: “Alderney”
- French: “Alderney”
- French: “Aurigny”
- French: “Isle D’Aurigny”
- Galician: “Alderney”
- Georgian: “ოლდერნი”
- German: “Alderney”
- Greek: “Άλντερνεϊ”
- Hausa: “Alderney”
- Hebrew: “אולדרני”
- Hebrew: “אלדרני”
- Hebrew: “אלדרניי”
- Hungarian: “Alderney”
- Indonesian: “Alderney”
- Interlingue: “Alderney”
- Irish: “Alderney”
- Italian: “Alderney”
- Italian: “Aurigny”
- Japanese: “オルダニー島”
- Javanese: “Alderney”
- Korean: “올더니섬”
- Latin: “Riduna”
- Latvian: “Oldernija”
- Limburgan: “Alderney”
- Lithuanian: “Oldernis”
- Macedonian: “Олдерни”
- Malay: “Alderney”
- Narom: “Aoeur’gny”
- Narom: “Aorgny”
- Narom: “Âorgny”
- Narom: “Aur’gny”
- Narom: “Aurni”
- Narom: “Orenyi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alderney”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alderney”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aurigny”
- Norwegian: “Alderney”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Aurigny”
- Persian: “آلدرنی”
- Polish: “Alderney”
- Portuguese: “Alderney”
- Romanian: “Alderney”
- Russian: “Альдерней”
- Russian: “Олдерни”
- Russian: “Олдрни”
- Scots: “Alderney”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Alderney”
- Serbian: “Alderney”
- Serbian: “Olderni”
- Serbian: “Олдерни”
- Shan: “ဢႄးလ်တႃးၼီႇ”
- Slovak: “Alderney”
- Slovenian: “Alderney”
- Spanish: “Alderney”
- Swedish: “Alderney”
- Tamil: “அல்டேர்னி”
- Thai: “ออลเดอร์นีย์”
- Turkish: “Alderney Adası”
- Turkish: “Alderney”
- Ukrainian: “Олдерні”
- Urdu: “Alderney”
- Urdu: “الدرنی”
- Vietnamese: “Alderney”
- Waray (Philippines): “Alderney”
- Welsh: “Alderney”
- Wu Chinese: “奥尔德尼”
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