Channel Islands

[ chan-l ahy-luhndz ]

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plural noun

a British island group in the English Channel, near the coast of France, consisting of Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, and smaller islands. 76 square miles (198 square kilometers).
an island group off southern California’s Pacific coast, along the channel just south of Santa Barbara: an eight-island archipelago used for U.S. military training and testing, and noted for numerous endemic species and ecological diversity. 351 square miles (909 square kilometers).

Channel Islands

a group of islands in the English Channel, off the NW coast of France, consisting of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Brechou or Brecqhou, Sark, Herm, Jethou, and Lihou (all between them representing the United Kingdom Crown Dependencies of the Bailiwick of Jersey and the Bailiwick of Guernsey) - the only part of the duchy of Normandy remaining to Britain - and the Roches Douvres and the Îles Chausey (which belong to France). Pop: 149 878 (2001). Area: 194 sq km (75 sq miles)

They were not Fascists and, being French in occupied France, or British on the occupied channel islands, they hated the Germans.

So he started alone for a ramble among the Channel Islands, and I went back to Paris.

I do not know of any instance in which a full-plumaged male has occurred in the Channel Islands.

At seaside places, like Normandy and the Channel Islands, egg-shells are sometimes replaced by shells of shell-fish.

The accent was not quite that of an Englishman, and struck him as hailing from one of the Channel Islands.

A relation of mine, with her daughter, had arranged to spend a holiday in the Channel Islands.

To seaward from Santa Barbara can be seen the Channel islands, wondrous isles for fishermen and tourists.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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