Alderney is the northern most of the inhabited Channel
Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency.
It is 3 miles (5 km) long and 1 ½ miles (2.4 km) wide. The area is 3 sq miles
(8 km2), making it the third largest island of the Channel Islands and the
second largest in the Bailiwick. It is around 10 miles (15 km) from the west of
La Hague on the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy, in France, 20 miles (30 km) from
the north east of Guernsey and 60 miles (100 km) from the south coast of Great
Britain. It is the closest of the Channel Islands to both France and the United
Kingdom. I As of April 2013, the island had a population of 1,903; natives are
traditionally nicknamed vaques after the cows or else lapins after the many
rabbits seen in the island.
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