h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Who lives on them? How is it that they're owned by the UK rather than by France? What is their major source of income? Share your knowledge of the beautiful Channel Islands with the rest of h2g2!

Paully

yay!

ok, the Largest and most southerly of the Islands is Jersey, famous for the Jersey royal potato, the Jersey cow and the Jersey (the jumper). it is independantly governed i think, but i need to look up the full details on that.

the second largest is Guernsey to the north of Jersey. more info to follow.

next to Guernsey are Sark and Herm. neither of these have airports because they are so small, and cars are only allowed in special circumstances. the majority of transport is done on bicycles and tractors.

the northernmost (is that a word?) island is Alderney which is smaller than Guernsey but larger than Sark and Herm.

as well as these islands there are a group of rocks somewhere is the middle called the Ekrahoes (will check spelling later) which was inhabited by a farmer who kept sheep.

this is all the relevant info i can think of offhand, but if i can look it up i can provide a lot more stuff.

is it possible to have separate entries on each island of would they all be put together in a general entry?

The Channel Islands are not part of the UK.

Indeed not, as I said above. But it'd be nice to get some facts and figures together so we can have an over-arching entry to act as an introduction to them!

Paully

I didn't say above, did I?

Stupid Paul!

i think you said it in the announcements thread. oh well, it i do my job properly all this confusion will be cleared up.

there is an existing entry on jersey already. shall i add a link to it or update/replace it because frankly it's not very good.

p.s. yes i am volunteering to do this.

We have a volunteer - superb! Thanks, Galigan!

Regarding the Jersey Entry - the best place to do that would be the UpdateForum.

ok. i'll draft another entry on that when i have some time and pop over to the update forum with it.

Great stuff!

As a Crown Dependancy don't forget to link to A3197207 The Isle of Man and A2027008 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pimms

ok, i will add those, although i'm still not sure about the whole UK/GB thing. i'll work it out though.

Galigan - does this help? A2027008 - The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

it probably should but i've gone through that once already. i didn't read it in detail though so i will fully go through that later and inform myself.

I'm delighted to announce that we already have two County entries in Peer Review, waiting to receive any bouquets or brickbats that people might lob in their general direction! If you're currently either working on or contributing to a County entry of your own right now, you might like to have a quick look to see how some other researchers have tackled this challenge. They are: County Fermanagh (A6092606) and Norfolk (A6108473).

Hope you enjoy reading them!

Paully

this is the channel islands entry so far. A6032701 i can't think of much else that should be included right now. what do you lot think?

i've put it into Peer Review

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