Lihou

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Lihou

Not to be confused with Lihou Reef and Cays
Lihou Reef and Cays

The Lihou Reef is the second largest atoll by total size in the Coral Sea, after the Chesterfield Islands . It is a part of the Coral Sea Islands....

Lihou /'li.u/ is a small tidal island

Tidal island

A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide....
(95 vergée

Vergée

A verg?e or vergee is a unit of area, a quarter of the French acre. Other spellings include vergie and vr?gie. It is not an SI unit....
s; 38½ acre

Acre

The acre is a Units of measurement of area in a number of different systems, including the Imperial unit#Measures of area and United States customary units#Units of area systems....
s; 15.6 hectare

Hectare

A hectare is a unit of area equal to , or one square hectometre , and commonly used for surveying.The hectare is used in most countries around the world, especially in domains concerned with land ownership, land planning, and land management, including law , agriculture, forestry, and town planning....
s) that is part of the Channel Islands

Channel Islands

The Channel Islands are a group of islands in the English Channel, off the France coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey....
. It lies off the west coast of Guernsey

Guernsey

The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Isles Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.As well as the island of Guernsey itself, it also includes Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, Burhou, Lihou and other islets....
and is the most westerly point in the Channel Islands. Coordinates: .

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Tidal island

A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide....
(95 vergée

Vergée

A verg?e or vergee is a unit of area, a quarter of the French acre. Other spellings include vergie and vr?gie. It is not an SI unit....
s; 38½ acre

Acre

Hectare

Channel Islands

Guernsey

Tide

Tides are the rising of Earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the oceans. Tides cause changes in the depth of the marine and estuary water bodies and produce oscillating currents known as tidal streams, making prediction of tides important for coastal navigation ....
by an ancient stone causeway

Causeway

In modern usage, a causeway is a road or railway elevated on a sandbank, usually across a broad body of water or wetland. A transport corridor that is carried instead on a series of arches, perhaps approaching a bridge, is a viaduct....
between the island and L'Eree headland. It is part of the Parish of St. Peter's

St Peter's, Guernsey

St Peter's , known officially as Saint Pierre Du Bois is a parish in Guernsey. It is the centre for the Guernsey Western Parishes which includes Torteval, Guernsey, St Saviour's, Guernsey and the Forest, Guernsey....
. Lihou's bird and marine life makes it an important conservation area

Conservation area

A conservation area is a tract of land that has been awarded protected status in order to ensure that natural features, cultural heritage or biota are safeguarded....
.

History

Like many other Channel Islands

Channel Islands

Norman language

Norman is a Romance languages and one of the Langues d'o?l. The northern Norman can be classified in the septentrional O?l languages with Picard language and Walloon language....
suffix "-hou
-hou

-hou is a suffix found commonly in Channel Islands and Normandy names. It is the Norman language version of the Old Norse holmr, meaning a small island, and often found anglicised elsewhere as "holm"....
" of Old Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic languages that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
origin.

On the island are the ruins of the priory

Priory

A priory is a house of men or women under religious vows headed by a prior or prioress.Priories may be houses of mendicant friars or religious sisters , or monastery of monks or nuns ....
of St. Mary which is believed to have been established by Benedictine

Benedictine

Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy....
monks in the 12th century. The monks of the priory were by no means generally popular with the local people, who suspected them of devil worship. This animosity may be due to the monks' insistence on rights of wreck. Until 1415 it was under the control of Mont Saint Michel and thereafter under Eton College

Eton College

Eton College, also known as Eton, is a world-famous British independent school for boys, founded in 1440 by Henry VI of England. It was founded as the King's College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor....
until the Reformation

English Reformation

The English Reformation was the series of events in 16th century England by which the Church of England first broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church....
when it was closed and fell into disrepair.

The house on Lihou was used for target practice by heavy artillery during the German Occupation of the Channel Islands

Occupation of the Channel Islands

The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the military occupation of the Channel Islands by Nazi Germany during World War II which lasted from 30 June 1940 until the Liberation on 9 May 1945....
during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. It has now been rebuilt as accommodation for school groups, and is used as an educational resource.

Vraic (seaweed

Seaweed

Seaweed is a loose colloquial term encompassing macroscopic, multicellular, benthos ocean algae. The term includes some members of the rhodophyta, phycophyta and green algae....
) was harvested and dried on frames set up on the beach. A 1927 factory building produced iodine

Iodine

Iodine , is a chemical element that has the symbol I and atomic number 53. Naturally-occurring iodine is a single isotope with 74 neutrons....
from seaweed. All traces of the industry disappeared during the German Occupation.

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