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Channel Islands

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Chan·nel Islands  (chnl)
A group of British islands in the English Channel off the coast of northern France. Settled by Norse mariners, the islands became part of the duchy of Normandy in the tenth century and passed to England with the Norman Conquest of 1066.

Channel Islands
pl n
(Placename) a group of islands in the English Channel, off the NW coast of France, consisting of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Brechou, Great Sark, Little Sark, Herm, Jethou, and Lihou (British crown dependencies), and the Roches Douvres and the Îles Chausey (which belong to France): the only part of the duchy of Normandy remaining to Britain. Pop.: 153 700 (2001 est.). Area: 194 sq. km (75 sq. miles)
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Channel Islands [ˌtʃænəlˈaɪləndz] npl
the Channel Islands → les îles fpl de la Manche, les îles fpl anglo-normandes
channel port nport m de la Manche
Channel Islands npl the Channel Islandsle Isole Normanne or del Canale (della Manica)
Channel Islands npl the Channel Islandsle Isole Normanne or del Canale (della Manica)


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She had houses in all the hamlets, she worked quarries of granite, she freighted coasters with stone--even traded with the Channel Islands.
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