Great Britain

Canvey island is an island in the delta of the river Themse in front of the coast of the county Essex in England. The island has a surface of 18,45 sq.km and a population of approximately 37.000 inhabitants. It is connected with the mainland by a bridge.

 

Ailsa Craig is an island, that belongs to Scotland in the Irish sea. It is situated about 16 kilometers to the west of Girvan in Scotland and belongs to the district of South Ayrshire. The island is from volcanic origin and rises up to a height of 338 meters.

Balta belongs to the Shetland islands in Scotland and is 0.8 sq.km large and uninhabited. It is located in the east of the island Unst and the Balta sound.

 

Bass Rock is a nowadays uninhabited island in front of the coast of the Scottish region Midlothian, in the southeast of the Firth of Forth, which consists essentially of a gigantic, solitary rock.

 

Boreray is a nowadays uninhabited island of the St. Kilda archipelago, located approximately 83 km in west direction to the Scottish islands North Harris. The island is well-known as nesting place, also for rarer kinds of sea-birds.

 

Burhou is a small island, which belongs to the channel islands, located about 1.5 kilometers in front of Alderney. The soil is thin and salty, since the waves often flush the whole island. During nearly the entire year, there is no supply of drinking water.

 

The Casquets are a small rock's group with a lighthouse, located 13 km in the northwest from Alderney, of one of the channel islands lying before the French coast and belongingto the bailiwick Guernsey.

 

Alderney is the most northern of the channel islands, lying in front of the French coast and belonging to the bailiwick Guernsey. The island is surrounded by rocks, in front of which hundreds of ship wrecks are lying.

 

Brecqhou (frz. Brechou) is one of the channel islands. The channel islands are neither a part of the united kingdom nor a crown colony, but they are subordinated directly as crown dependency to the British crown.

 

Guernsey is the second largest of the British channel islands The island is a hill country with cliffs. Guernsey is an important tourist goal for nature and bird lovers.

Herm is the smallest inhabited of the channel islands and belongs to the bailiwick of Guernsey. The island with a population of 60 inhabitants is 2.4 kilometers long and less than 800 meters wide. The northern half possesses sand beaches, while the southern half is rocky.

 

Jersey is the largest and at the same time the most densely populated of the channel islands. It is situated in the English Channel, 20 km in front of the west coast of the northern French peninsula Cotentin.

 

Jethou is a small, not publicly accessible channel island close to the island Herm. The island is 18 hectares largely and counts four constant inhabitants and has only one house.

 

Lihou is with approximately seven hectares the probably smallest, at least occasionally inhabited channel island and is located in about 500 meters to the west of Guernsey. At ebb-tide it can be reached over a fastened dam, the Causeway.

 

Sark is the smallest of the four large channel islands. Cars are not allowed at this island. Sark actually consists of two high rock islands, Great and Little Sark, which are connected only by a short sand strip.

 

Anglesey is a British island in front of the northwestern coast of Wales in the Irish sea and a county of the same name. The landscape is shaped of hills. Cattles and pigs are predominantly bred.

 

The Isle of Arran belongs to the county Ayrshire. It is situated in the Clyde Firth in the west of Scotland and is seperated by the Kilbrennan Sound from the peninsula Kintyre. Arran is often called expenditure for miniature of Scotland, because the island shows different landscapes in the north and the south.

 

The Isle of Lewis is the most northern and the largest of the exterior Hebrides. Most of the inhabitants are living in the only city Stornoway, which is at the same time the capital of the whole archipelago.

 

Great Bernera, often also only called as Bernera, is an island of the exterior Hebrides of Scotland. It is connected with the west coast of the island Lewis by a bridge. The largest settlement on the island is Breaclete, seat of a small museum. Today the inhabitants earn their money mainly with the catch of lobsters.

 

Scalpay is an island of the exterior Hebrides (Scotland), situated in the east of Harris, with which it is connected by a bridge. The island has a population of 400 humans, who live mainly on fishing. On Scalpay is the oldest lighthouse of Scotland situated, buildt 1788.

 

North Uist is an island of the exterior Hebrides. In the year 2001, 1657 humans lived here. It is connected by dams with Benbecula by Grimsay, with Berneray and with Baleshare. With exception of the southeast, the island is very flat, over a half of it is situated under the sea level.

 

Grimsay is an island of the exterior Hebrides of Scotland, connected by dams with North Uist and Benbecula. The largest places on Grimsay are Baymore and Kallin. The main acquisition exists today in the lobster catch, even if shipbuilding were more important in former times.

 

Benbecula is an island of the exterior Hebrides in front of Scotland. In the year 2001 lived 1249 humans here.

 

South Uist is the second largest island of the exterior Hebrides and is situated in the northwest of Scotland. The island North Uist is located in the north.

 

The island Eriskay belongs to the exterior Hebrides in north Scotland. It is located between South Uist and Barra and is connected with South Uist by a dam, which was opened 2001. In the same year Eriskay became a ferry station for the distance between South Uist and Barra.

 

Barra is the main island of the most southern archipelago of the exterior Hebrides. The cultural high point of Barra is situated on a rock, lying in the bay in front of Castlebay - the castle of the MacNeil's from the 16. Century. Visitors are fetched with the boat at the port dock from Castlebay to the sight seeing.

 

Vatersay is the most southern inhabited island of the exterior Hebrides and is connected by a ferry dam with the island Barra. The few inhabitants live in the small lonly locality, which is called likewise Vatersay, and at isolated farmsteads.

 

Bute is an island in the arm of the sea of the river Clyde in the southwest of Scotland. Bute belongs to the traditional county Buteshire and today to the Unitary Authority Argyll and Bute. On the island are about 7.200 humans living in the only city Rothesay and in several small villages.

 

The island Caldey is located in the south of Tenby in the Pembrokeshire in Wales and is approximately 1 km far away from the mainland. The vikings called the island Keld Eye, which meant cold island. On the island there is a small village, which is well - known for its monastery.

 

Lindisfarne, also mentioned Holy island, is a tidal island in England, at the northeast coast of Northumberland. A large part of the island as well as the tidal zone are a bird protected area. Here can be observed up to 300 kinds of birds.

The Isle of Man is an island in the Irish sea. The Isle of Man is well-known as tax haven and seat of offshore companies, as well as for the motorcycle running tourist Trophy. The inhabitants call themselves and their island after the become extinct (in the meantime revived) celtic language as „Manx “.

 

The Isle of Wight is a appropriate to the south coast of England pre-aged island- in front of the city Southampton. It is 35 km long and up to 20 km wide. On a surface of 381 sq.km are living 132,000 humans (2001). In former times the island belonged to the county Hampshire, but since 1974 it is independent. The capital is Newport.

 

Lundy is an island in the Bristol channel, it belongs to the district Torridge of the English county Devonian. It is situated between Devonian and the south coast of Wales. It is about 4.5 km long from the north to the south, about 1 km wide and covers a surface of 4,24 sq.km. It is the largest island in the Bristol channel.

 

The Orkney are an archipelago consisting of approximately 70 small islands and the main island Mainland, which belongs to Scotland. Only about 20 islands are inhabited. The two most important cities are Kirkwall, as administrative place with approximately 7.000 inhabitants, and Stromness, as one of the ferry harbours of „the mainland “with 2.000 inhabitants; both are situated on Mainland.

 

The Scilly islands consist of approximately 55 larger islands and more than 90 smaller islands, altogether of more than 140 islands and rock reefs and they belong to Cornwall, Great Britain. The largest five are inhabited.

 

The Isle of Sheppey is a small English island in the estuary of the Themse. This altogether flattens and swampy island is situated with a surface of approximately 94 sq.km in front of the north coast of the county Kent, about 40 km in the east of large - London and has 38.000 inhabitants.

 

The Shetland islands are a archipelago between the Orkney and the Färöer islands and are belonging to Scotland. The most important industry of the islands is the oil industry, from the oil fields Ninian and Brent in the North Sea between the Shetlands and Norway a submarine pipeline into the bay Sullom Voe exists, at which Europes largest oil terminal was established.