Channel Islands

American  

[chan-l ahy-luhndz] / ˈtʃæn l ˈaɪ ləndz /

plural noun

1. a British island group in the English Channel, near the coast of France, consisting of Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, and smaller islands. 76 square miles (198 square kilometers).

2. an island group off southern California’s Pacific coast, along the channel just south of Santa Barbara: an eight-island archipelago used for U.S. military training and testing, and noted for numerous endemic species and ecological diversity. 351 square miles (909 square kilometers).

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Channel Islands British  

plural noun

1. a group of islands in the English Channel, off the NW coast of France, consisting of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Brechou or Brecqhou, Sark, Herm, Jethou, and Lihou (all between them representing the United Kingdom Crown Dependencies of the Bailiwick of Jersey and the Bailiwick of Guernsey) - the only part of the duchy of Normandy remaining to Britain - and the Roches Douvres and the Îles Chausey (which belong to France). Pop: 149 878 (2001). Area: 194 sq km (75 sq miles)

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Channel Islands

San Clemente Island, which is part of California’s Channel Islands, is roughly 55 miles south of Long Beach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Two of the biggest fuel providers in the Channel Islands have said pump prices are steadily falling.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

It was three days after a stranded mariner’s emergency flare apparently sent flames raging through the south end of Channel Islands National Park’s second-largest island.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

“We’re hoping that there’s going to be a quick recovery path,” Ethan McKinley, superintendent of Channel Islands National Park, said of the pines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

The long struggle was over, and England now retained nothing of her old transmarine possessions save Calais and the Channel Islands.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various